Comment on no ragrets

Mortoc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why do people do this?

  Like a SINGLE HEAVILY TRAINED animal, disproves a generality…

  This goes for many things, it is constant.

  Has no one taken high school statistics???

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless they’re a proper trainer, it’s not a service dog anyway.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not how that works. It’s the trained behavior that matters. There is zero credential requirement specifically because disability is highly correlated with poverty.

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      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s exactly how it works, what are you talking about? There are government requirements to be met for a dog to be considered a “service dog”. It’s not some made up term and has nothing to do with poverty, disability or anything else…

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for proving to me that most people are morons: a few heavily trained humans with good educations don’t disprove the fact that most people are barely literate and on the whole not that bright.

    It’s still surprising to me that we run the world and not dolphins or something.

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m a firm believer that if dolphins had a way to create tools and a way to create a written record to pass on knowledge they would rule the world.

      :P

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      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s thumbs. The secret is thumbs.

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• Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re going to disagree with the guy who created the dog?

  People are so brainwashed. I’m sure your dog is lovely, overall they are a neurotic breed. You’re singular experience does not make fact irrelevant.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not a fact.

    www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0639

    Dog breeds are an incredibly poor predictor of behaviour. Behaviour is heritable to some degree, but the breed itself doesn’t really determine it.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the primary problem comes down to there being enough demand for a breed that unscrupulous breeders will stop taking temperament into account in order to produce more puppies.

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      • Mortoc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Breed matters so much less than how you treat them. That’s all I was trying to say.

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    • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Work in the animal industry for several years and then tell me that.

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