Oddity of the day

[ysengrin]

Dogs adapting to urban ecologies, in this case Moscow:

... you would see one [stray dog] waiting on a metro platform. When the train pulled up, the dog would step in, scramble up to lie on a seat or sit on the floor if the carriage was crowded, and then exit a few stops later.

Comments

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

You do realize that pretty much all of the Russian "space dogs" were former strays that they picked up off of the streets because they were supposingly adapted to living in cold envirnoments?

[oats-a-plenty.livejournal.com]

Russia also had a fetish with giant Rasputin peni (after the finally killed him off) and decapitating dogs in order to try and re-animate the head. Let's also not forget putting massive amount of RF radiation on the American Embassy and creating the largest radio tower ever constructed in order to QMP the 20 meter band. What a godforsaken country.

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

And they thought we were nuts? I still remember the psychic assassination attempt on their top chess player during the middle of a match just to prove that it could be done or not.

[oats-a-plenty.livejournal.com]

LOL I remember that! Well, not remember as seeing it live, but remember a documentary about Stalin's obsession with psychic powers and trying to get the KGB achieve psychic assassinations.

The US tried to counteract this during the cold war with a psychic team of their own...

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

The movie "Men who stared at goats" is about that.

[oats-a-plenty.livejournal.com]

They don't look any more different than strays here in the states, this article lies. I do find it fascinating that they use the subway system there.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Bet they tell the right stop by smell and sound.

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

Or more likely how my dogs used to know when we got home before we got their by the sounds of the road, and the particular turn we had to make right in front of the house.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

No, I mean the ferals in Russia. Those would never have been in a car, but would learn the right train stop by scent and sound.

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

I was making a comparison between feral and domesticated dogs.