#turnspit dog

[alex-fictus]

Holocene Extinctions

These animals all deserved better, but the best we can do is remember them and tell their stories.

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[antiqueanimals]

The Turnspit "Canis vertagus" and the Pug "Le Doguin"

There are two breeds of the turnspit, the one having the forelegs straight, and the other with them crooked. Both are long-backed, short-legged, strange looking animals, and are now rarely kept except as curiosities. Formerly, however, the turnspit had the honour of turning the roast-beef of Old England j but since machinery has been substituted for his fore-paws, Othello’s occupation’s gone. He’s no longer.

"---- a dog that turns the spit,

Bestirs himself, and plies his feet

To climb the wheel; but all in vain,

His own weight brings him back again,

And still he's in the self-same place

Where, at his setting out, he was." (Hudibras)

The right-hand figure in the above engraving represents the pug, a common pet dog a few years ago, but now seldom seen.

Image and text from A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

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[ladyhedoniste]

For the curious, this is the type of dog that would have taken Robin's job. They were a historical breed raised to work the wheels in kitchens.

Sadly they are extinct now 😢 NPR has a photo of a taxidermied one called Whiskey. They were very cute. 😭

source: Wikipedia

[minmocat]

turnspit dog adopt up for $25! dm me on here or discord (@minmocat) if interested

[bullypinscherart]

My very own Fakemon! It’s a dog Pokemon that evolves into a different type based on its Father’s primary type! You catch a Wild Hundling, it will evolve into a Wild Howlhund, but breed it with any Pokémon and it’s offspring will have an evolution based on the type!

Hundling (Wild and Domestic)- Normal (Based on Wolf Puppies)

Howlhund (Wild)- Normal (Based on Wolves)

Howlhund (Domestic)- Normal (Based on Old English Sheepdogs)

Molthund- Fire (Based on Xoloitzcuintlis)

Splashund- Water (Based on St. John’s Water Dogs)

Stalkhund- Grass (Based on Collies)

Sparkhund- Electric (Based on Cairn Terriers)

Frosthund- Ice (Based on Huskies)

Warrihund- Fighting (Based on Bully Kuttas)

Toxhund- Poison (Based on Tesems)

Duunhund- Ground (Based on Shar Peis)

Stratuhund- Flying (Based on German Spitzes)

Arohund- Psychic (Based on Saint Hubert Hounds)

Buzhund- Bug (Based on Chihuahuas)

Sedihund- Rock (Based on Turnspit Dogs)

Wraithund- Ghost (Based on Salukis)

Nobilhund- Dragon (Based on Chow Chows)

Sneakhund- Dark (Based on Kai Kens)

Irohund- Steel (Based on Malossus)

Spritehund- Fairy (Based on Japanese Chins)

[bjekkergauken]

Turnspit dog

[tenth-sentence]

So it has probably been with the turnspit dog; and this is known to have been the case with with ancon sheep.

"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" - Charles Darwin

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

If the ironic-punishment-for-all-eternity version of hell exists, then there is a nonzero number of British chefs down there being forced to run on giant wheels, never getting a break, breathing in smoke while crooked legged dogs throw hot coals at their feet

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[sbnkalny]

Wormriders, or as I've recently taken to calling it, gnu plus Linux.

[canisitsnotlupus]

Dogs really are amazing.

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

the turnspit dog

[white-throated-packrat]

We definitely need to have a dinner party sometime. Now that it isn't the temperature of Satan's waiting room, I may try hosting get-togethers again.

I had a long boring mandatory work event today, which means I spent a lot of time at The Turnspit Dog.

The Turnspit Dog is my imaginary neighborhood farm-to-table restaurant. (NB: I have no desire to run an actual restaurant, which involves doing things like "cooking whether I or not I feel like it" and "making a profit." This is a purely imaginary affair.)

At any rate. This week, The Turnspit Dog is offering a roasted red pepper soup with toasted chickpeas and cashew crema or a chicken elote soup with sweet corn and red potatoes; a roasted broccoli salad with almonds and pickled carrots, as well as the usual house green salad; buccatini a la Norma (with eggplant and ricotta salata); a slow-cooked pork shoulder with polenta, grilled broccolini, and apple cider gastrique; a bisteyya (phyllo chicken pie with cinnamon) with plum compote; a white bean stew with fennel and confit plum tomatoes, braised kale, and sourdough croutons; a tipsy peach upside-down cake; and oat milk black walnut ice cream with brandied cherries.

It was a long work event.

[theglobster]

im inventing a new retrofuture aesthetic called "dogpunk" where every technology is powered by turnspit dogs

[grison-in-space]

spending a chunk of my evening digging through my copy of Desmond Morris' Dogs: A History of Dog Breeds (2001), being a reasonably credible attempt to summarize and document every known dog breed Morris could find mentioned by multiple sources in written history. it's been a while since I dug into this book, but it's where I first ran into Salish Wool Dogs, the domestic culpeo, and all manner of other interesting beasties.

(I was hoping it had more citations on my memory of Chinese Crested history, but no dice. Pity: the book is occasionally endearingly dry when it touches on the sillier conflicts of various dog breed communities, and I wanted to see if there was anything funny in there. Nope, alas.)

What I had forgotten was the method of organization, which is by function.

See, Morris is acting here partly as a comparative anthropologist, so he's documenting (among other things) every use to which a human culture has ever put the dog. So he starts with this framework: Sporting Dogs (dogs that interact with wild animals [or other dogs] for human purposes), Livestock Dogs (dogs that interact with livestock for human purposes), and Service Dogs, which serve functions unrelated to other animals. All well and good. Each category has a wide range of subcategories, and then within each of these the dog breeds are arranged by country of origin.

Except, to my delight, the very first subcategory of Service Dogs is in fact Household Companion Dogs: breeds and commonly made deliberate crosses designed to fulfill the function of companionship. This is all well and good and perhaps to be expected, given the function of dogs in the lives of humans across many cultures and ways of handling them. The next category, Household Working Dogs, is a little motley group of dog breeds and crosses intended to produce the sorts of disability assistance dogs we refer to as service dogs today mixed together with turnspit tykes and a number of hairless breeds kept, apparently, as living hot water bottles. And then we get the next big function: Edible Dogs, followed swiftly by Hair Dogs.

Only after the Hair Dogs do we return to more familiar categories like Property Guards, Barge Dogs, Sled/Travois/Cart/Carriage Dogs, and Truffle Dogs. I confess, I am rather delighted by the whole thing.

very curious honestly to see what shakes out for me when I revisit the book now, some fifteen years after I first read it.

[alex-fictus]

Shop update!!! 10 new designs available in my store!

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Japanese Sea Lion (sticker / wallpaper)

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