you're a brat in every room of this house

hate it when pets learn words, my dog flips out when he hears "greenie" so we had to start saying "G word" but now he knows G word so we have to say shit like "are we out of emerald indulgences"

This is Gilbert. He’s been around a while. Attributes his long life to many, many years of always getting what he wants

Well, now I'm a Gilbert fan. That sly villainous grin and squint…

freshly mowed lawn vs. white dog

that is oscar the grouch

get grinched dumbass

cerberus, (livestock) guardian of the gates of hades

@briarroses

Fiona Apple with a wooden rendering of her dog, Janet (1998-2012), made by artist Patrick Bucklew

this made me cry so now i need everyone to see it

Dogs have had many jobs throughout history, in this case: Revenge.

love how the king was just like nah let's see where the dog is going with this

this is the greatest story ever told

from Ask a Manager

#there are a lot of good reasons not to use child labor#but admittedly one of them is that children aren’t good at it

I wanted to look up what kind of dogs the vikings had in order to make a historically accurate shitpost meme, but while googling "viking dog", figuring I'd find pictures of some kind of big cool war dogs or dogs used for hunting moose and bear, but instead I found this

the noble vallhund

herder of cows and biter of ankles

This is literally a viking corgi.

The Pembroke Welsh Corgi developed starting roughly 1,000 years ago from a mix of the 3,000yo breed that was the historical Cardigan Welsh Corgi (first brought to Wales with Celtic groups emigrating from continental Europe), and Spitz type dogs that were brought in with the Viking raids 1,000 years ago.

Corgis are a mix of Viking and Celt, and that's neat. The vallhund is literally very close family to at least the Pembroke corgi.

There are a number of Scandinavian dog breeds that might be also associated with Vikings, most of which are spitzen. The Norrbottenspetz, Karelian Bear Dog, Finnish Lapphund, Icelandic Shepherd, Finnish Spitz, etc.

Special additional shout out for the Norwegian Lundehund, which was developed to hunt puffins. (Lunde means puffin). They look like a generic medium dog at first.

Except they have secret weapons just for clambering over rocks to get puffins. They have six fully-formed and muscled toes per foot, as well as extreme range of motion in their joints.

And there's your lesson in weird Viking dogs.

The extra-toed puffin dog I only ever heard about in an encyclopedia of dog breeds until now. They're very rare!

Golden retriever vs border collie

THE CASUALNESS OF THAT COLLIE SLIPPING RIGHT OUT OF THEIR COLLAR. That dude is a Willing Participant of this walk and by god everyone else is going to follow the RULES.

I stop and watch this every time it scrolls past. The absolute adoration and conviction that they are a Good Dog shown in the collie's eyes in the last few seconds just... gets me every time.

LOOK HOW GOOD I AM. I KNOW THE RULES. I MAKE THE WALK HAPPEN. SEE? I'M SO GOOD.

see, him face

it's really weird having a first dog be blind and then getting a second who can see...like how was I supposed to be prepared for this.

this creature can perceive when I put the treats up on the high shelf. or when I hide stuff behind my back. I can't fool her!! she's always watching me and she shouldn't have this much knowledge!!!

I walk around at night and I shine my flash light directly into her eyes and I'll just be standing there staring at her weird blue orbs for like 5 seconds until I realize it's probably extremely annoying to her, because she has eyes!! I'll turn on the light in the room and she gruffs and grumbles like ?? oh right!! light wakes you up!! the fuck??

the absolutely wild implication of this, that god was previously playing fast and loose with his own acts of good and evil but then had to start being considerate about what he was doing because now mankind is watching and we know.

God's worst mistake was opening our eyes and mouths, for now we can turn to him and name his sins

one of the lines of all time

MARY OLIVER