#underbite

[odddogs]

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this one feels like... impressive to me, how do you give a wolfdog an underbite, feels straight up hard to manage

[pikaisragingmad]

March of Robots 2026 - Day 26

[pacificremains]

We probably shouldn't do this to dogs

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

Orthodontic extra-oral protraction headgear, was used to treat jaw mismatches.

[deepfriedhopesanddreams]

Steeljaw's pack cookies

[this-is-deformimisia]

Rewatching Pound Puppies (the 2010s TV show) for nostalgia and I thought it was pretty great. Until it got to the second episode.

The episode takes place on Halloween. The episide’s title is “Nightmare on Pound Street” and the puppy they’re trying to find a home for is named Freddie.

Freddie has an underbite, hanging tongue syndrome, and ptosis in one eye. He’s also apparently designed to be a xolo mix so I think the tuft on his head and tail are supposed to imply he’s hairless. But with the way the fur is drawn is this style is not really clear.

The person who contacts them to dump Freddie on them is from another pound, and hides him behind a dumpster before dipping out. The Pound Puppies just do not want to deal with Freddie. The entire time, everyone but Lucky is talking about how ugly and unadoptable they think Freddie is behind his back. Both children and adults scream when they see Freddie’s face.

The other dogs, save for Lucky, seem uncomfortable dealing with the dog. And even though Lucky is treating him about the same as he would any puppy, the language he uses when talking about the puppy is softer than the others but still implies he thinks the dog is ugly. He even hopes Freddie will get adopted because people love things that are “creepy” on halloween.

They dress up in costume and go out to find Freddie an owner, but for some reason every prospective owner thinks he’s wearing a costume and then freaks out because they realize its his face. When he overhears that they all think he’s creepy looking, the kid runs away upset declaring that he’s the world’s ugliest dog. In the end, he does find a family who loves him and thinks he’s cute — not because of the Pound Puppies, by the way, Freddie found his family on his own.

I think the episode was trying to have a good message and failed horribly. The bullying was unnecessarily harsh and made the main characters look like out of character pieces of shit who’d abandon their core values — “there’s a pup for every person and a person for every pup” — in a heartbeat if they had any prejudice against a pup. I get that having a character be wrong is a good thing that gives them room to grow, but there’s not really any proper apology given to Freddie — nor is the agent who dumped Freddie on this sector of the Pound Puppies ever given any reprimand. And the end of the story comes off as “someone will love you even if you’re ugly” rather than “no one is a lost cause and it was wrong of us to treat you like one.”

This is deformimisia.

Deformed beings are not ugly. They are not scary. They do not make someone/something less worthy of good things. Deformities are a neutral characteristic.

[jupiter-flyz]

Uh hi👍

I am so sorry I disappeared/ keep disappearing

High-school is alot and I just never have motivation but uh

Have some early jaundiced crab ref

Yes he's still a "reliant" robin👍

Toodaloo‼️

[sternerstufftoys]

The bots of FebRIDary, noseless edition.