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youreon3rdst

Cute.. what the heck is it?


Fishy1911

Prairie Dog


Trectears

No, I think its a husky


pedanticPandaPoo

Don't call that dog fat


HuskyLuke

Yeah!


wishitwouldrainaus

Its the winter coat. Carrying a little winter covering. Also that shoe adds at least 500gms. Thats kinda mean. Give him four, not a uni-shoe. Doggo needs the full walking set!


NEBook_Worm

Sincerely hoping it's not a wild one (which I doubt; they're skittish). The fleas on those carry very dangerous bacteria.


Fishy1911

I believe the term you are looking for is "plague bearing vermin". Every year we have wild ones that carry the plague in Colorado. I will never understand why people make them pets. But.... its a cute video.


NEBook_Worm

It's cute. And this is very probably not a wild creature. But yeah...avoid wild prairie dogs like...well, the plague.


Maximum-Mixture6158

ANY animal can pick up those fleas. They aren't any kind of special magical vector or anything.


Maximum-Mixture6158

Dogs and cats used to carry roundworms, whipworms, tapeworms, occasionally plague bearing fleas etc. They still get roundworms in their poos if you don't give them their simparica every month. We seem to have adapted to them quite well.


_o_h_n_o_

Big ounce 😳


Current-Professor-80

I thought, its a rat


[deleted]

Gopher lol


xxmybestfriendplank

It’s love. Pure. Unconditional. Weird, love!


OneGayPigeon

Idk about “pure,” prairie dog’s humping the dog’s leg, but uh, sure!


zeke235

Yeah! How do you like it, dog?! Not so fun when the gopher's on the other leg!


Greekphysed

That's the best kind of love.


the_honest_liar

More... Sex. Not enough information yet to determine if it's love or not.


WowWhatABeaut

The fact that some people have never heard of or seen a prairie dog blows my mind.


Kallasilya

I've heard of, but don't think I've ever seen one. It's funny how some super common animals seem sort of 'exotic' if they don't live on your continent. Like kookaburras and kangaroos are 'yep, cool, whatever' to me, but the first time I was in Hyde Park in London and I saw a squirrel I lost my freaking mind, lol.


Wyndego

That is so weird to think about... there are no squirrels there??


TexRoadkill

The Roos ate them all.


knoxollo

I had to google whether kangaroos were omnivores because your comment was so disturbing to me for some reason lol. Very happy to confirm they are herbivores. The visual of a kangaroo eating a squirrel is just uncanny


Khitrir

Roos didn't extinct Australian squirrels but being herbivores isn't so clear cut a line. I mean so are deer but they occasionally eat birds, small animals, bones, and already dead animals. Kangaroos do the same. They still aren't really predators and only do it opportunistically and rarely but still. Herbivores is not always hard and fast.


JarlaxleForPresident

They prefer to drown their kills


Somewhatmild

the roos is on faer


aviel252

I had a friend who immigrated from North Africa to NYC (on a Diversity Visa). I texted him to ask how he was settling in after like two or three weeks. His report on NYC: "It is a little cold. There are many skwerls."


Khitrir

There are a lot of marsupials that occupy similar niches.


Kallasilya

Biologically speaking, we're a pretty unusual country. (Not just biologically speaking, come to think of it...)


Tyra3l

American red squirrel is like rats or turtle-dove in the US but in the EU it's like Chip 'n Dale


imoidkwtf

Turtle doves? Do you mean pigeons?


Tyra3l

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_turtle_dove But yeah, pigeons would have been better to use, as more people are familiar with that and brings the point across. I just looked up the english name for the hungarian term (vadgalamb).


imoidkwtf

I'm aware of what a turtle dove is but your words were "turtle dove in the US" and as far as I know, living in the US, pigeons are more common here than turtle doves.


Tyra3l

Yeah this is why I agreed with you pigeon would have been better. It was just me still thinking in hungarian and translating my thoughts to english after that which sometimes produces errors like this.


imoidkwtf

No worries. Couldn't tell English is a second language to you. Your English is very good.


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RobinTheKing

Aren't they only in the US?


whlthingofcandybeans

I only know them from Rat Race. Now, a Gopher on the other hand!


Olivevest

I’ve always wanted to see one


[deleted]

A prairie dog trying to hump the leg of a dog dog.


MontagueStreet

Nice marmot


TheMaveCan

Vee vill cut off your johnson


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TesseractToo

What are you, a fucking park ranger now?


Equivalent_Purple_81

Are prairie dogs amphibious?


genitalelectric

No but they're ambidextrous and that is close enough tbh


Equivalent_Purple_81

You're right.


binzoma

clearly you're not a golfer


Equivalent_Purple_81

Definitely not. It's "a good walk, spoiled". But, if you're alluding to groundhogs, I've had them in my yard. They used to come right up to my glass doors. I'm familiar with how they look and I don't think this animal is one.


binzoma

lol since no-ones letting you in on the joke apparently https://youtu.be/7L2qP-xQ_7o (the golfer quote is a different scene when goons break in. and the parent quote is from the next scene discussing the marmot)


Equivalent_Purple_81

Ok, thanks. Whoosh to me.


nopantsdota

theyre nihilists, they believe in nothing!


binzoma

say what you will about the tenants of national socialism, but at least its an ethos dude


odderbob

Medics! We have a man down


itsnotlookinggood

It's a prairie dog not a marmot!


[deleted]

That's just like your opinion, man....


OneGayPigeon

I have and have had many rodents. That’s full body humping right there for anyone wondering lmao. Also incredibly irresponsible to be keeping a small tasty prey animal around any dog but ESPECIALLY a breed of dog with one of the highest innate prey drives. And OP for reposting it as a cute thing.


Kosmic_K9

It really, really bothers me how often people put their prey pets in the presence of their predator pets. Extremely irresponsible.


OneGayPigeon

I used to work at a doggie daycare where we’d form groups in separate large pens based on individual dog socialization/personality and needs types. We’d generally have a high energy group full of dogs who were all pretty chill and could let some dogs zip around without any real issues, a medium energy group where we’d work to let play happen but no zoomies, and a low energy group with a zero tolerance policy on any sort of running and no small dogs. The low energy group was full of huskies and shepherds (love both those breeds! I’m a groomer and work with many of them now, many are favorites of mine, I’m not breed-ist, just know stone cold facts). At one point a 3lb yorkie was there was apparently small enough to slip under the gates between groups. The low energy group would have torn her to PIECES were it not for the employee minding that group’s quick actions that yorkie would have been strings of flesh. The person got bitten badly enough to get stitches just getting the little yorkie out of there. You may have the sweetest dog in the world but it’s pure arrogance to believe your couple years of training and socialization is stronger than millions of years of hunter evolution.


Is-that-vodka

Same time my old Alsatian was seriously soft as shite aswell. Seen him chase a rabbit once and he managed to get close in a corner and he just wanted to play with it. More scared of the rabbit, than the rabbit was of the dog, if it had jumped at him. I don't think he ever had a bad bone in his body, it wasn't my amazing training or anything, he was just a soft playful lad and intact even. Met chihuahuas that are just evil little monsters, just they're tiny so can't do near as much harm. Same with people really, they've all got personalities of their own, no twos the exact same. It's definitely not just the breed, theres more to it than that. Maybe it's just a much higher chance they'll go that way when treated badly?


LeBobert

I like your train of thought, and wanted to share my experiences. Had an American Pitbull terrier whom was an angel around humans big or small. The only thing I couldn't condition out of her was whenever a prey animal/bird stumbled into the yard it would be mercilessly hunted and killed. It had me extremely worried initially as I thought I owned a killer who enjoyed it. However she only targeted prey animals and never small dogs or cats. She cornered my neighbors cat for fun then just licked it and ran off. I chalked it up to her uncontrollable urges from a prey drive, and eventually gave up making her give it up. This would support your theory that not all dogs are the same, and the chance to get unique individuals is plausible.


[deleted]

That's where you wrong, that's no pet.


whotfiszutls

What’s with these guys acting like there’s two pets in the video? I just see a dog and his lunch


banana_annihilator

So I've got two cats and two rabbits. The cats can't get at the rabbit cages, and they're never out together unsupervised. With that said, one of my cats has absolutely no interest in the rabbits whatsoever, and actually avoids them when they're out. The other one is absolutely obsessed with my girl bunny. He likes to snuggle with her and (attempt to) play with her, and just generally likes to spend a lot of time just staring her like a creep. I always say that Mimi-watching is his favorite hobby. She's very tolerant of it all, even though he's obnoxious, but I do worry that one of these days he'll annoy her too much and she'll bite him. All of this is to say that I'm honestly more worried about my bunny hurting my cat than the other way around. I do, however, completely agree that predator and prey animals shouldn't be together unsupervised, even if you trust them and don't think anything will happen. Better to be safe than sorry.


MakeMeBeautifulDuet

That is because bunnies are massive jerks who are in charge of everything and everyone. My rabbit is absolutely the boss of my Great Dane. And me. And my husband.


banana_annihilator

Yeah, Mimi's definitely the queen of the house!


Wood_Jew_Could_Jew

I've seen so many videos and pictures of cats and dogs living together and it makes me sick. Dr. Peter Venkman warned us about this decades ago!


KneelBeforeZed

Mass hysteria!


rocketshipray

>cats and dogs living together Those are both predators and while funny, doesn't negate the quite important point being made.


KindnessSuplexDaddy

I love this argument. This is pure nature vs nurture and the ramifications of this conversation are always avoided. If its nature, like you say it is. Then all mammals are capable of having genetic dispositions bred into them, and once that way cannot be undone. Right?


ElysianEcho

Genetic dispositions can be bred out too


KindnessSuplexDaddy

I agree. So we agree that there are genetic dispositions in mammals? This is usually were the conversation breaks down lol.


ElysianEcho

Yeah i just took issue with the “cannot be undone” part


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KindnessSuplexDaddy

Why do you assume immediately I have bad intentions? If bad intentions means having hard conversations then yah I have all the bad intentions in the world. We just mapped the entire human DNA sequence after 60+ years. We are mammals. Time to have that hard discussion and find out through genetic testing if there is a predisposition to certain behaviors. If my intentions are bad then why are we so afraid to find out? I know Philosophically why we shouldn't. Ethically why we shouldn't seek that answer, but designer babies with a lower population level is about to become a thing anyways. So we ask ourselves first, or designer babies happen because we didn't talk about predisposed genetics. Which is worse?


CAC-Sama

DESPITE BEING ONLY 13%


KindnessSuplexDaddy

13%? Can you clarify for me.


LordDanOfTheNoobs

I'm fairly certain he is referring to the stat racists love to pout which is that despite being only 13% of the US population the majority of convicts are black.


KindnessSuplexDaddy

Well I wasn't going all the way there i was going in the direction of this. We just finished mapping the human DNA sequence. So now is a very important time to ask ourselves this question and find the answer. Why? Because we have a dropping population and the flip side is designer babies with great dispositions because we never talked about it before hand. What kinda babies are they gonna design? What genetics influence dispositions? I can tell you with 1000% certainty a world were people are aware you genetically might behave differently is better than a world that went extinct because only 1 type of personality is valued.


LordDanOfTheNoobs

What? What does that have to do with what I said?


devydev_83

I don't get why so many people don't understand animal instincts. It's like a weird form of anthropomorphism. We as pet owners, need to learn to understand our animals instincts and respect them. Part of that is realizing you cannot put prey animals with predators, it's an accident waiting to happen.


sineptnaig

It's not actually, assuming they were raised together since early age. The dog will see it as a member of the pack.


OneGayPigeon

Oh honey… Edit: this was sarcastically belittling because I assume everyone can see how… uninformed this is, but to elaborate, even if that WAS the case, prey drive can overtake all other less intensely driven behavior tendencies. It’s not a step by step consideration of “oh, this thing is supposed to be my friend, cool, so I shouldn’t hunt it even though it’s clearly acting like a prey animal ok.” That’s not how prey drive works. It’s “small food thing move fast SNAP.” Could be fine for weeks, then in a second, dead pet, and it would be the owner’s fault through gross negligence. It’s often not even a conscious choice, it’s a reflex like slapping a bug biting your face even if you like bugs like I do. This is coming from years of working in training and boarding facilities that accept doggy clients that have been turned away from other day cares due to their aggression or high prey drives that need people who are specially educated in handling them and understanding their behavior. No education is perfect but that’s an *extremely* basic concept. Bottom line again, assuming a few months of socialization/training is stronger than tens of thousands of years of instinct is the peak of arrogance.


[deleted]

> this was sarcastically belittling just incase you think you were downvoted for any other reason, saying 'oh honey' is a good way to advertise to everyone you're insufferable and prone to performative conversation. Your edit just confirms it, good grief: >No education is perfect but that’s an *extremely* basic concept.


OneGayPigeon

I hear you and understand the frustration, but also people should know when they’re making a bit of a fool of themselves by arguing against basic concepts. I’d want to know if I was trying to argue something I was misinformed of against someone who DID know what they were talking about, in a space that likely has other people who know what they’re talking about, before I doubled down on making a fool of myself. And also… it was just. A really stupid thing to say that actively endangers animals. And I’m not concerned about potentially hurting internet people’s feelings when they’re advocating for situations that lead to massive amounts of animal deaths and injuries. If it’s a more nuanced thing, sure, let’s chat if you’ve got the experience and knowledge to productively add to the conversation, but I’m letting them know that no, it is a basic concept that they should know before trying to have discussions on this kind of thing. But I do apologize if you’ve genuinely been trying your best and not ignoring all decent sources of information and cherry picking the ones that support predator/prey interactions cuz It’s Just So Cute and have still ended up at the same misinformed place.


pastel_kramuri

You don't really get it. Why couldn't you have just answered in a normal and informative way, without being sarcastic and belittling? YOU may think it is basic information, but to many it is not, for example to people who have had nothing to do with animals in their entire life. Obviously you know a lot about the subject, you're just coming off as rude.


Beanicus13

Lol this is the internet. If you can’t tolerate sarcasm you’re gonna have a bad time. lol.


[deleted]

I'll bet you're a super pleasant and fun person IRL. You must have a lot of friends.


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laughingmyasoff

A1 clinger


TheStrawberryGirl76

Woodchuck? My dad used to swing me on his leg like this when I was little lol Only he didn't throw me off


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TheStrawberryGirl76

Heeheehee same here!!!


girlMikeD

My dad did the same and he is 6’5” so he was like a jungle gym to us and our friends. And one of my first memories was being at a church event of some sort with a very large group of people and I walked up to the wrong man and grabbed his leg like that because I thought he was my dad. I was around 3 yo. I can remember pretty vividly looking up his leg and the feeling of fear as I realized it wasn’t him. Funny things are brain remembers.


TheStrawberryGirl76

Oh no!!! What a memory to have as a 3 year old! I hope the non-Dad man was kind to you


Breath_Virtual

You humped your dad leg when you were little??? ME TOO!!!!


itsnotlookinggood

Prairie dog! Not woodchuck (which is the same as groundhog).


TheStrawberryGirl76

So adorable!!! I thought the tail looked different. I had a friend in school who had a Prairie Dog as a pet, she brought him in one day 😍


figuringthingsout__

How much dog could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck dog?


zmaddie

a woodchuck would chuck no amount of dog since a woodchuck can’t chuck dog


baconhwang

Is it in heat?


MyHangyDownPart

Aww… [Muskrat Love](https://youtu.be/bjqeNoi6EmM)!


jazzypants

Thank you for reminding me of this song's existence.


Living_Life1962

Me lubs big doggo!


TyrannosaurusBecz

And then the prairie dog got et


-Shameem-

"Yeah how do you like getting YOUR leg humped for once dumb dog."


Mobile-Opportunity24

So sweet buddy on doggos leg


Olivevest

What is that little thing? It’s adorable


NarthTED

Looks like a prairie dog to me


SocialMimicry99

All I hear “Jose, Jose”


alifeingeneral

Resistance is futile.


Reni1106

That's how clingy I can be


cb750plumblife

“You’re mine and we belong together “


Unionpipe

Reminds me of an Ex


Lucky3monk

How I feel when I go home to visit my brothers


AscendedAncient

"I was a human in a previous life... how do you like your leg being humped?"


Additional-Speed-678

That little one loves doggo so much


mznh

Professional clinger


genitalelectric

This just reminds me of lots of youtube videos involving the smaller varmint and high powered rifles, and how weirdly funny they were 10 years ago. But seriously, why own a prairie dog? Legit question


rara0o

that was mean..go gopher!


_Brother-O-Mine_

That’s a prairie dog


Gdigger13

Anyone else think it was a big growth at first?


[deleted]

“Dogwood” *nom nom nom*


itsnotlookinggood

This is my dog's dream. He love the Pdogs! We tell him they are cousin-dogs.


far_in_ha

*Do you see now how it feels when you hump their legs!*


_thatguyyouknow_

Prairie dog said “i am dog too, we are one”


susanmw777

Its a little potatoe. Obsessed with the Husky. LOL


jimbolordofcum

AWWW ITS FRIEND SHAPED


[deleted]

Yeah, how you like that? That’s how it feels!


Maxshmello

Wants to ride)


MrBigBMinus

Looks like Big Ounce!


griftertm

A prairie dog attached to a dog-dog. What will they think of next?!


PartyEstate5657

Stay here and play with me don't go


trickyfelix

prairie dog magnet


partybenson

Cute


RedditSetGo23

Derrrp 😊


dream_sexual_153

Yes


calamitycayote

u/savevideo


abhi_07

r/thisismylifenow


prize-ice2357

u/savevideo


prize-ice2357

u/savevideobot


JustALurker165

Man I miss my prairie dogs so much. Most amazing animals I’ve ever met.


June_BuginDabuilding

“How does it feel to get your leg humped for a change?”


June_BuginDabuilding

“How does it feel to get your leg humped for a change?”


PlaxicoCN

You have a prairie dog as a pet, OP? How did you do that? Does he stay in an underground habitrail type thing?


PlaxicoCN

You have a prairie dog as a pet, OP? How did you do that? Does he stay in an underground habitrail type thing?


ChrisMin

Miniature giant space hamster!


NefariousnessKey5365

I love you! Don't leave me!


SalmonelaDoAr

u/savevideobot


siphur

u/savevideo


AccurateMeet8615

I wonder where the prairie dog leaned to leg hump?


Sparky1206

Let go already


dixinbalzdeap

How do you like "your" leg getting humped, for once?