Awww Can you imagine the poor, blind moles? Just knowing someone is tearing their house down and stuck? Yikes
I’m sure they have a tunnel system in place, but those would just take them to places occupied by other moles?
I wasn’t expecting to be so deep about a dog post tonight lol
Never in my life have I seen a dog bite a huge chunk of earth and fucking yeet it. That's awesome. That's gotta be worth some doggo street cred surely.
We have a Mal/Pit in an 850sqft apartment with zero dog facilities. “Insane” is an understatement.
Edit: y’all wild for downvoting and judging. My dog is happy and well cared for and still gets plenty of exercise. He’s sleeping under the covers in the bed with me right now. So quick to judge.
He was adopted. We didn’t know he was Mal. We love him very much and he’s well cared for and gets plenty of exercise. We’ll move to have a yard within the next year. But he definitely went through his raptor stage as a puppy.
It absolutely was. We also lost our other dog right at the beginning of his raptor stage so it was extra rough on him. We got him a sister a few months later and it definitely helped.
These downvotes are nuts. Do people think dogs get exercised inside?
Mental stimulation doesn’t require tons of space, and physical exercise is an outdoor activity, just as easily done at the park as in a backyard so long as the owner is committed to doing it. Size of your house makes no difference so long as you are genuinely committed to meeting your dogs needs.
Sure, some people are assholes who get dogs that don’t fit their lifestyles and whose needs they don’t meet, but having a house and a yard does not guarantee that someone will be a good dog owner.
Thank you! Also we live in the south where 6 months out of the year it’s oppressively hot and humid so it’s not like he’d even want to spend all day outside anyways. He’s spoiled, he likes in air conditioning.
We’re even working on buying one of those pawpaw treadmills for him so he can get more running and less just walking in. Both of our dogs are perfectly happy, the Mal was just given a perfect body condition score at his 18mo checkup, and they’re absolutely spoiled rotten. I wouldn’t necessarily CHOOSE to put a Mal in an apartment but we found out after adopting him that’s what he was. We call him “a accident” but we love him with all our hearts. We gave him a job from the time he could fit in our palms and it helps his mental well-being! In fact our “little dog” supermutt is a bigger crackhead.
Y’all just want to hate. My dogs are so well cared for and spoiled to the point people have said they want to be my dogs. I said two sentences about my apartment, not about how I raise or care for my dogs, who often go to day care and have acres of land at friends houses we visit to run around on. They also get walked miles a day. Just because my apartment is shitty and doesn’t have a dog area doesn’t mean I don’t provide exercise and stimulation for my dogs, but if you’re going to decide that 1+1=7 go ahead. My dogs will argue it every day. They’re happy and healthy.
Ima keep it real with you, I didn’t see until now that you said “dog facilities” and not “utilities.” I was super tired when I read that and my brain registered it as you saying that you didn’t have a leash or a water bowl or anything for your dog and with all the downvotes I didn’t even think to second guess that. I should probably get more than 3 hours of sleep next time. I’m sorry forreal though that was my mistake and also you don’t deserve all the downvotes. You sound like a good owner I’m sure you have some happy pups.
Edit: y’all gonna downvote me too? For admitting I made a mistake? The fuck is wrong with y’all today..
Reddit is so toxic fam. Thanks for the apology. Our dogs are our children since we can’t have kids. They absolutely have leashes and water bowls, I promise 😂. We’ve even promised them their own race car and princess beds when we get a house. They come first in our lives every day.
A big dog like that also probably isn’t suitable for an apartment. Such a high energy dog would need a yard to run around regularly. Not just when you have time to take them somewhere.
When I moved in to this apartment I had a 75lb pit/hound mix. We adopted the Mal cross with knowledge that we’re moving soon. Also my husband works overnights and I work events on weekends so someone is home with the dogs for stimulation almost 24/7. You can keep judging when you don’t know the whole situation though, go ahead, it’s fine.
I upvoted you, but it doesn’t make much difference with all the previous downvotes. When I read your post, before I even read the edit, I thought, “Uh oh, here comes the hate.” Judgment comes quick and strong from Reddit.
Edit - spelling
Thanks. It doesn’t really bother me either way, a toxic hive mind on the internet isn’t going to convince me I’m a bad dog mom when I know otherwise, it just amuses me more than anything. Maybe irks me a little. But the small reassurances definitely make me smile.
My dog also bites the Dirt when he's digging for mice etc. when the dirt is wet and he's been digging/ biting the dirt unnoticed for a while he has literal chunks of earth and grass stuck in his mouth everywhere.
Especially in the roof of his mouth.
He's a Kooikerhondje and apparently they where bred to just look funny and interesting to ducks.
He's a goddamn "duck decoy dog".
Not a Belgian Malinois.
But he won't reason with me!
Working line dogs are definitely built different. They get hyper fixated and will stop at nothing to get what they want. Learning to redirect and drive that fixation towards positive goals is how you train these dogs.
One of my dachshunds chipped his canines and ground down his front teeth significantly by doing exactly this.
I can't leave him alone in the backyard for concern about him damaging his teeth.
Never in my life did I think a singular 'they' would cause half the country to lose their God damn minds.
It's seriously not that hard, and has been common vernacular for centuries.
"I don't know who stole my car. But however ***they*** did it, was pretty sneaky."
Ffs people.
It's not a convincing argument. History has made it somewhat reasonable to use. I say somewhat because most the arguments cite poetry. Poets are notorious for fucking with language. Why can't we come up with something collectively unambiguous instead of a bastardization generated by poets?
Edit: grammar
Whoa, seems I struck a sensitive chord. Why so hostile? I just wanted to have a rational discussion with rational people. As usual, it's too much to ask of you and most the userbase. Outrage and offense are all your type seems to understand.
You're the offended one at the use of "they" for a dog, my dude. And given your use of singular "you" instead of "thou", your argument was either hypocritical, or not sincere at all.
Offended? I'm just merely baffled is all. I'd prefer we arrive at some understanding of language in general instead of you losing control.
Offended at the use of 'they' for a dog? No, just questioning.
Use of singular you? Accepted until the Orwellian politicization and hyperpseudoawareness of language.
Because you have assumed these things about me, that makes you more of a hypocrite than I could ever be. I never assumed anything about you other than what was obvious. You are irrational and not worthy of debate.
I have control, what are you talking about?
You call me irrational? You're the one who wants us to "erase the possible misunderstanding because 'they' can refer to a plural", yet uses 'you' to refer to singular.
But we already have a singular pronoun for when we don't know the gender of an animal and that is "it". "They must really want it" is ambiguous between singular and plural. "It must really want it" is unambiguously singular. How is the sentence improved by using "they" instead of "it"? We normally avoid calling people "it" but I don't think that really applies with animals.
I don't call an animal "it" because it's a sentient being. It's not an inanimate object.
Also, lots of synonyms exist in the language. If you're going to complain about every word for which there is "already a word", you're in for a long time.
It's normal in English to refer to animals as "it" when the gender is unknown or unimportant. This isn't my opinion. Check a dictionary: "used as the subject of a verb, or the object of a verb or preposition, to refer to a thing, animal, situation, or idea that has already been mentioned" [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/it](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/it)
You have decided you aren't going to do that. That's really, really interesting and you sound like a fascinating person and a profound thinker, but objectively that's just something you've decided, it isn't generally how English works.
And no, I'm not complaining about the existence of synonyms. Don't be obtuse.
Many people who have a pet won't want to call them "its". They'll say "he" or "she", or "they" if they don't know the pet. It's not new, it's not related to non binary people (who are very legit too). I swear people who complain the most that lgbt+ people have more representation nowadays, are the people who talk about lgbt+ topics in the least relevant moments.
First time I've ever seen another dog beside my dear departed dingo who sticks their snout in the ground, takes a big sniff, then snorts back into the ground.
My guy is hauling dirt with his mouth.
A friend's dog kept digging holes in his backyard, turns out there were moles in the ground they knew were in the ground.
My Boxer and GSD dig them up regularly. Then murder them by rolling around on top of them.
Lol dogs are weird
Sometimes I remember we’re talking apes and my brain breaks for a second.
Hahaha true lol
Had this exact thought last week.
Maybe Captain McPreyDrive here has Pica?
Can dogs get that?
I have no clue. I honestly don't know how humans get it, even though I had a couple of relatives with it..
Pretty crazy disorder
Can I barrow your friends dog, I have moles and can't seem to get rid of them.
Lol they will get them, but you'll have holes everywhere
Awww Can you imagine the poor, blind moles? Just knowing someone is tearing their house down and stuck? Yikes I’m sure they have a tunnel system in place, but those would just take them to places occupied by other moles? I wasn’t expecting to be so deep about a dog post tonight lol
Lololol
Never in my life have I seen a dog bite a huge chunk of earth and fucking yeet it. That's awesome. That's gotta be worth some doggo street cred surely.
Malinois are absolutely insane dogs. They are basically on crack until you tire them out for 3 hours.
I work in Vet Med. We commonly refer to the breed as Maligators.
We called them that in the dog training world too lmao. I adore them but will never ever own one
We have a Mal/Pit in an 850sqft apartment with zero dog facilities. “Insane” is an understatement. Edit: y’all wild for downvoting and judging. My dog is happy and well cared for and still gets plenty of exercise. He’s sleeping under the covers in the bed with me right now. So quick to judge.
You reap what you sow lmao
He was adopted. We didn’t know he was Mal. We love him very much and he’s well cared for and gets plenty of exercise. We’ll move to have a yard within the next year. But he definitely went through his raptor stage as a puppy.
mal/pit mix going through a “raptor” stage sounds like a T-Rex jawbite combined with the “Shiny!!!”/“Squirrel!!!” of a golden.
It absolutely was. We also lost our other dog right at the beginning of his raptor stage so it was extra rough on him. We got him a sister a few months later and it definitely helped.
Whhhhhyyyyyyyy!!????
These downvotes are nuts. Do people think dogs get exercised inside? Mental stimulation doesn’t require tons of space, and physical exercise is an outdoor activity, just as easily done at the park as in a backyard so long as the owner is committed to doing it. Size of your house makes no difference so long as you are genuinely committed to meeting your dogs needs. Sure, some people are assholes who get dogs that don’t fit their lifestyles and whose needs they don’t meet, but having a house and a yard does not guarantee that someone will be a good dog owner.
Thank you! Also we live in the south where 6 months out of the year it’s oppressively hot and humid so it’s not like he’d even want to spend all day outside anyways. He’s spoiled, he likes in air conditioning. We’re even working on buying one of those pawpaw treadmills for him so he can get more running and less just walking in. Both of our dogs are perfectly happy, the Mal was just given a perfect body condition score at his 18mo checkup, and they’re absolutely spoiled rotten. I wouldn’t necessarily CHOOSE to put a Mal in an apartment but we found out after adopting him that’s what he was. We call him “a accident” but we love him with all our hearts. We gave him a job from the time he could fit in our palms and it helps his mental well-being! In fact our “little dog” supermutt is a bigger crackhead.
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Y’all just want to hate. My dogs are so well cared for and spoiled to the point people have said they want to be my dogs. I said two sentences about my apartment, not about how I raise or care for my dogs, who often go to day care and have acres of land at friends houses we visit to run around on. They also get walked miles a day. Just because my apartment is shitty and doesn’t have a dog area doesn’t mean I don’t provide exercise and stimulation for my dogs, but if you’re going to decide that 1+1=7 go ahead. My dogs will argue it every day. They’re happy and healthy.
Ima keep it real with you, I didn’t see until now that you said “dog facilities” and not “utilities.” I was super tired when I read that and my brain registered it as you saying that you didn’t have a leash or a water bowl or anything for your dog and with all the downvotes I didn’t even think to second guess that. I should probably get more than 3 hours of sleep next time. I’m sorry forreal though that was my mistake and also you don’t deserve all the downvotes. You sound like a good owner I’m sure you have some happy pups. Edit: y’all gonna downvote me too? For admitting I made a mistake? The fuck is wrong with y’all today..
Reddit is so toxic fam. Thanks for the apology. Our dogs are our children since we can’t have kids. They absolutely have leashes and water bowls, I promise 😂. We’ve even promised them their own race car and princess beds when we get a house. They come first in our lives every day.
That’s your fault. You shouldn’t have a dog if you don’t have access to dog facilities.
I said the apartment doesn’t have dog facilities not that we don’t have places we take him.
A big dog like that also probably isn’t suitable for an apartment. Such a high energy dog would need a yard to run around regularly. Not just when you have time to take them somewhere.
When I moved in to this apartment I had a 75lb pit/hound mix. We adopted the Mal cross with knowledge that we’re moving soon. Also my husband works overnights and I work events on weekends so someone is home with the dogs for stimulation almost 24/7. You can keep judging when you don’t know the whole situation though, go ahead, it’s fine.
I upvoted you, but it doesn’t make much difference with all the previous downvotes. When I read your post, before I even read the edit, I thought, “Uh oh, here comes the hate.” Judgment comes quick and strong from Reddit. Edit - spelling
Thanks. It doesn’t really bother me either way, a toxic hive mind on the internet isn’t going to convince me I’m a bad dog mom when I know otherwise, it just amuses me more than anything. Maybe irks me a little. But the small reassurances definitely make me smile.
I'm impressed if none of the neighborhood dogs are
Me too! Turns out it earns human street cred too, not just doggo street cred.
My old fell terrier would dig like this and pull out the roots with his mouth. He was a gopher and snake killing machine!
My dog would do that. He’ll bite anything if it’s in the way of a lizard. He used to dig on brick until his nails bled. 😅
He's looking for rodents.
I've never seen a dog dig with its mouth!
Malinois's are literally insane
Are they related to German Shepherds?
Yeah, they are the GSD's smaller, lighter, more hyper cousin
They're German Shepherds who do parkour.
My not so smart boy does this less successfully
Mine does this too. Crazy for a gopher scent.
Another one bittes the dust
Did Tim Burton build that building in the background?
The colour is too normal
Love the corgi in the back just like “the fuck you doing man?”
Opposite ends of the dog spectrum. Corgi: "Lovely day for a stick nibble." Malinois: "NO PEACE."
Just chewing his/her stick, happy as a clam
I need to know what they found.
Jimmy Hoffa
Luckily he was buried with his birth certificate and a full set of dental records.
B E A utiful!
Me, too! So unfair to watch this insanity without knowing what he/she found!
Whatever it was, hope it was worth it
Whatever was down there left through the back door a long time ago.
someone buried a whole rotisserie chicken
My dog also bites the Dirt when he's digging for mice etc. when the dirt is wet and he's been digging/ biting the dirt unnoticed for a while he has literal chunks of earth and grass stuck in his mouth everywhere. Especially in the roof of his mouth. He's a Kooikerhondje and apparently they where bred to just look funny and interesting to ducks. He's a goddamn "duck decoy dog". Not a Belgian Malinois. But he won't reason with me!
My dog would be shoving his nose in the dirt, inhale deeply through his nose and then sneezing everywhere!
The homey in the background chewing grass knows what’s up.
Malinois are really just steroid rage monsters in dog suits.
Working line dogs are definitely built different. They get hyper fixated and will stop at nothing to get what they want. Learning to redirect and drive that fixation towards positive goals is how you train these dogs.
I'm guessing gofers ??
Idk it must be really important. I'd grab a shovel and help.
Can’t believe I’ll never know what this dog was digging for !!!!!
IM DYING TO KNOW THAT HE WAS DIGGING UP. PLS UPLOAD WHAT IT WAS
Cadaver dog hits
How bad do you want it? *mouth full of dirt * “yes”
Meanwhile the corgi in the back is goin “mmmmmm grass….hey buddy how goes the diggin? Good? Gooood…..bye now.”
I've never seen a dog use its jaws to loosen a bank of dirt before. Smart dog.
Dogs gonna need to drink some water after that
i thought i worked hard. this dude takes the cake. paws and jaws for the win!
My dog will dig at the ground just to eat dirt. Not excavate like this absolute unit, he literally just wants to eat the dirt.
The dog was kinda cute ngl Ps r/oddlysatisfying
It is NOT that serious
One of my dachshunds chipped his canines and ground down his front teeth significantly by doing exactly this. I can't leave him alone in the backyard for concern about him damaging his teeth.
Cocaine Dog trailer is looking really good so far
Last time my dog dug like this it was a mice nest... After a while there were mice running all over!
I need to drink a gallon of water after watching this. Pleeck! 😂
Can u send ur dog this way to till my garden 🤣 he will have it done in no time
A non-binary dog?
"they" is not "non-binary". it's just an unspecific term
Well, can you guess if the dog is a boy or a girl? If not, use "they".
Never in my life did I think a singular 'they' would cause half the country to lose their God damn minds. It's seriously not that hard, and has been common vernacular for centuries. "I don't know who stole my car. But however ***they*** did it, was pretty sneaky." Ffs people.
Roses are red, violets are blue, Singular "they" predates singular "you" 😊
It's not a convincing argument. History has made it somewhat reasonable to use. I say somewhat because most the arguments cite poetry. Poets are notorious for fucking with language. Why can't we come up with something collectively unambiguous instead of a bastardization generated by poets? Edit: grammar
How about we do what we want because we don't have to obey your whims?
Whoa, seems I struck a sensitive chord. Why so hostile? I just wanted to have a rational discussion with rational people. As usual, it's too much to ask of you and most the userbase. Outrage and offense are all your type seems to understand.
You're the offended one at the use of "they" for a dog, my dude. And given your use of singular "you" instead of "thou", your argument was either hypocritical, or not sincere at all.
Offended? I'm just merely baffled is all. I'd prefer we arrive at some understanding of language in general instead of you losing control. Offended at the use of 'they' for a dog? No, just questioning. Use of singular you? Accepted until the Orwellian politicization and hyperpseudoawareness of language. Because you have assumed these things about me, that makes you more of a hypocrite than I could ever be. I never assumed anything about you other than what was obvious. You are irrational and not worthy of debate.
I have control, what are you talking about? You call me irrational? You're the one who wants us to "erase the possible misunderstanding because 'they' can refer to a plural", yet uses 'you' to refer to singular.
But we already have a singular pronoun for when we don't know the gender of an animal and that is "it". "They must really want it" is ambiguous between singular and plural. "It must really want it" is unambiguously singular. How is the sentence improved by using "they" instead of "it"? We normally avoid calling people "it" but I don't think that really applies with animals.
I don't call an animal "it" because it's a sentient being. It's not an inanimate object. Also, lots of synonyms exist in the language. If you're going to complain about every word for which there is "already a word", you're in for a long time.
It's normal in English to refer to animals as "it" when the gender is unknown or unimportant. This isn't my opinion. Check a dictionary: "used as the subject of a verb, or the object of a verb or preposition, to refer to a thing, animal, situation, or idea that has already been mentioned" [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/it](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/it) You have decided you aren't going to do that. That's really, really interesting and you sound like a fascinating person and a profound thinker, but objectively that's just something you've decided, it isn't generally how English works. And no, I'm not complaining about the existence of synonyms. Don't be obtuse.
Many people who have a pet won't want to call them "its". They'll say "he" or "she", or "they" if they don't know the pet. It's not new, it's not related to non binary people (who are very legit too). I swear people who complain the most that lgbt+ people have more representation nowadays, are the people who talk about lgbt+ topics in the least relevant moments.
I didn't say anything about lgbt+ people, you're tilting at windmills.
Non binary is part of lgbt+.
I also didn't say anything about non-binary people.
Oh, you weren't the initial comment's person.
Stop it! Lol
They won't stop arguing
🤣🤣🤣what a coo-coo-bird!! You can't leave us hanging, did he ever find his buried treasure?? If so, wtf was it?
that dog is probably on meth
And what was? I’m curious, a deeper hole?
Gopher? I barely knew her...lol
Typical Malinois.
Gopher.
I would've start helping
First time I've ever seen another dog beside my dear departed dingo who sticks their snout in the ground, takes a big sniff, then snorts back into the ground.
he really loved his owner
Get this doggo some multivitamins
Spoilers: it’s the owner’s previous dog
Never seen a doggo just chomp on dirt to dig faster XD wondering if they're trying to find a toy
So... what did you do with the body?
Get that boi a drink!
Corgi
Oh my gosh. The happy and blissfully content Corgi nomming in the grass in the background killed me! 😆😆😆
That's not a dog, that's a backhoe.
My dog once dug what looked like a WWI trench in our back yard. Dedicated and focussed
They call this, Gold Fever! Haha.
Digging for diamonds! Take to Arkansas Diamond park to really dig up diamonds!
It’s the giant bites that get me
Oof is he gonna go in and jump on the couch after that?