Came for this. For some reason, being really descriptive sold the story when I was a kid. IIRC, it was a “long-haired, Tijuana sewer rat” in the versions of the tale whispered over campfires. 
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The Aztecs and Incas had peanut butter thousands of years before Europeans learned about the stuff, but there’s little surviving documentation on whether they shared it with their dogs.
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Not too any of those breeds left, although saying that they’re “extinct” seems off.
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Who found that evidence? The Hardy Boys?
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Hey man, Run Run’s gonna run.
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No one ever questioned why The Littlest Hobo had to keep moving on from week to week.
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Muttias is a surrendered pet whose owner had named Mutt. Mikayla felt that was an undignified name for such a sweet and intelligent fox (he V quickly learned all kindsa tricks that dogs do), so she changed it to Muttias.
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[quote=“Brainspore, post:18, topic:208420”]dogs are apex predators too… they’re just the only ones that are regularly invited to share human couches.
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Speak!
“Apex predator” means you never have to worry about any other (non-human) species hunting and eating you. Big cats like lions and tigers qualify, as do wolves. The smaller felines that housecats were domesticated from weren’t quite at that level.
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Dogs, though, don’t, except for very big ones. Little ones left outdoors, even in urban Toronto, are vulnerable to coyotes or even foxes.
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The Toronto suburbs are within the winter range of the snowy owl:
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Well, they started as apex predators…
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Little dogs are temporarily inconvenienced big dogs. Just ask them.
Every chihuahua is a lone wolf stalking in the snow in their own mind.
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Oh, I doubt that domesticated cats are worried. We’re the ones who should be worried…
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Love this example of the genre: Chicken Lore — Mom Adopts a “Dog”
They seem to think they are though.
And I’m not sure they were so much invited as they invited themselves in. To this day, the average animal lover’s response when a cat starts hanging around their home meowing at them, seems to be to buy a litter box and cat food and let it in.
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