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Published: 2011-08-12 18:58:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 2055; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 29
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Description I was waiting for an oil change, when an ad for dog food captured my eye. OMG! It was a mabari! Almost straight out of a Dragon Age screenshot! I sketched it quickly and was all excited to upload it when I realized...mabari have cropped ears. And since this is dark charcoal, there's no point in erasing.

So, let's say that the Hawke family never got their dog's ears cropped. Or the puppy's a little freak of nature. But you know, that expression...
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Daemonica666 [2011-08-14 18:09:31 +0000 UTC]

they use Mabaris for selling dog food? knows bioware about?

nevermind. he`s just cuuuute little puppy

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Uminoko In reply to Daemonica666 [2011-08-15 13:53:17 +0000 UTC]

Apparently, they use floppy-eared mabaris for selling dog food.

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twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-12 18:59:02 +0000 UTC]

Aww yay non-cropped Mabari! How much more humane!

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Uminoko In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-12 19:03:58 +0000 UTC]

Do you think Fereldans actually crop their dogs' ears? I can't think of a single breed that's born with its ears standing straight up like mabaris' do.

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to Uminoko [2011-08-12 19:13:00 +0000 UTC]

German Shepherds...

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Uminoko In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-13 01:20:37 +0000 UTC]

I thought they had ears like this [link]
and then they...stand up?

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to Uminoko [2011-08-13 01:22:18 +0000 UTC]

You might be right, the last time I saw a German Shepard puppy (well, a full-blooded one), was when I was very small. But I know our Shiba Inu mix had standing up ears at 2 months.

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Sagnus85 In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2012-01-29 15:04:09 +0000 UTC]

We've got a white german shepard and his ears stick up. I love how it makes him look the alert guard dog even when he's sleeping.

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Uminoko In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-13 01:27:35 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I love researching this! Look how cuuuuuuute! [link]

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to Uminoko [2011-08-13 01:33:26 +0000 UTC]

Here's a picture of Tassi as a puppy, when we first brought her home from the pound: [link]

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Uminoko In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-13 01:35:24 +0000 UTC]

can't see that one

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to Uminoko [2011-08-13 01:47:27 +0000 UTC]

Huh. I just put it up, so it might need a few minutes...

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Uminoko In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-13 02:03:06 +0000 UTC]

Oh, there it goes. It's like an adorable little wolf!

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to Uminoko [2011-08-13 02:04:57 +0000 UTC]

Yes, we nicknamed her the little wolf, she's half Shiba Inu and half Australian Cattle Dog (or so the vet thinks), and she's named after Tasslehoff Burrfoot from the Dragonlance books.

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Uminoko In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-13 02:11:06 +0000 UTC]

Ah, Tas is my favorite DnD-related character ever.

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to Uminoko [2011-08-13 02:20:22 +0000 UTC]

Yup mine too. And she totally lives up to the name; if you leave anything laying around where she can get to it, she steals it and hides it. Like I used to leave some clothes at my birth-mom's house for when I would go down there, and she would take my underwear and hide it. We could never figure out where it was disappearing to, until one day my birth mother was dusting and found all of my underwear shoved behind the bookcase where only Tassi could get! Another time, I was down there and I had the couch bed folded up for the day. Well, that night I unfolded it, and the little brat had somehow managed to get into the folded up bed, under the cushions, and eat an entire pack of gum she had stolen from somewhere and gotten bright pink bubble gum all over the sheets.

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to Uminoko [2011-08-13 01:30:30 +0000 UTC]

[link] That's my birth mom's Shiba Inu, Tassi, with Emmy when Emmy was still little. I think I have a photo of Tassi as a puppy around here somewhere...

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Uminoko In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-13 01:35:53 +0000 UTC]

Aaaaaaaaaaawe

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TwilightHellsong In reply to twixtnightandmorn [2011-08-12 22:09:17 +0000 UTC]

And I think...(as in, don't quote me on this)...that the Belgian Sheepdogs also have pointed, standing ears.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Puppy has a cute smile though

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twixtnightandmorn In reply to TwilightHellsong [2011-08-12 23:32:19 +0000 UTC]

And so do Shiba Inus.

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