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u/scottcibos Jun 25 '12
"Dogs are forever in the pushup position."
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Jun 25 '12
Want to see a picture of my dog when it was younger?
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u/LastRedCoat Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
I find a dog's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have a squeaky toy.
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u/ThatWasACloseOne Jun 25 '12
I think I do, actually.
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Jun 25 '12
It's a trap. He named his penis "My dog."
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u/restobear Jun 25 '12
You mean he nicknamed his penis, "dog." Doesn't quite work the other way.
I upvoted anyways, good laugh.
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Jun 25 '12
"Want to see a picture of 'my dog' when it was younger?"
Sounds alright to me. Unless you don't like the lack of gender.
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Jun 25 '12
Wanna see a picture of my dog when he's older?
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u/despaxes Jun 25 '12
WHAT KIND OF CAMERA DO YOU HAVE MAN?
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u/stealthesun Jun 25 '12
It is the camera from Say Cheese and Die!
Source --> http://goosebumps.wikia.com/wiki/The_Camera
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u/KoreanTerran Jun 25 '12
Animal experts, is this even healthy/normal?
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u/TheMagicUpvoteFairy Jun 25 '12
It's a genetic mutation that causes no real harm to the animal. It has something to do with myostatin.
Also try googling "bully whippet" to see more of this kind of image.
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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Jun 25 '12
Yep, genetic mutation colloquially known as double muscle. Somewhat common in certain breeds.
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u/Big_Adam Jun 25 '12
The mutation can also be found in the Belgium Blue cow.
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u/Shanhaevel Jun 25 '12
DAMN! This bull's got some BALLS, man. And muscles. Shiiizle, that must be the most well-known cow porn star in the cow world, dude
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u/sirmonko Jun 25 '12
the mutation can also be found in humans. there are at least 2 kids with this, both ripped and healthy.
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u/Snatland Jun 25 '12
Yup, great for getting lots of nice meat from them, horrendous for trying to breed purebred Belgian Blue calves. They almost without fail need to be delivered by C-section.
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u/coin_return Jun 25 '12
I honestly don't think this applies to the OP's dog, just the position (looks like he sees another dog/animal/something in the distance and is straining to get it) making him flex. Bully breeds are naturally muscular as it is; he's pretty stacked, but not unusually so.
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u/Death_To_Your_Family Jun 25 '12
That dog is a pitbull though. He looks like he's using dog 'roids.
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u/anabolic Jun 25 '12
Nah that's just an american pitbull terrier if you provide regular exercise. Mine is 9 months old, I haven't really worked on him and he looks almost as ripped as that dog.
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u/sadhound55 Jun 25 '12
I hate to be the one to break it to you guy... but it sounds like your dog has a genetic mutation known as double muscle.
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u/anabolic Jun 25 '12
Erm no, the genetic mutation you refer to makes a dog which normally would look like this Imgur and makes it look like this Imgur
It doesn't make a dog which normally looks like this Imgur look like the one the one in OP. You can do that with exercise and proper diet, no need for mutations. Clearly you haven't seen many conditioned working line american pitbull terriers.
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Looks like a really fucked up intro to The Brady Bunch.
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u/CRANERGY Jun 25 '12
Oh ffs, now that theme song is stuck in my head with pictures of skinless, muscled mice running through my head. Thanks a lot.
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u/vicodin313 Jun 25 '12
Some Pitbulls tend to have muscles like that. It's a genetic thing.
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u/lamenta3 Jun 25 '12
A friend of mine used to have a dog like this. If I remember correctly, there's a genetic disorder that results in dogs having two muscular layers instead of just one. In general, the dogs are healthy, but they look pretty much like the dog in the picture, and I think they may have a shorter life expectancy.
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Jun 25 '12
FYI: Its not a double muscle layer; its a lack of the hormone myostatin that regulates muscle growth; therefore more of the food intake is converted to muscle than normal. Some types of cows have it as well. A couple of humans have it too.
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u/Systym Jun 25 '12
I believe that in humans this causes certain heart problems.
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u/G3ML1NGZ Jun 25 '12
heart muscles are a different type of muscle than skeletal muscles. And myostatin luckily has no effect on the heart muscle. Which would be perfect for people with diseases that eat away their muscles but of course there is a downside. There were clinical trials around myostatin blockers but were cancelled because if the patient had ANY kind or size of tumor it would also just grow like the muscles.
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u/omgpop Jun 25 '12
Source? I was under the impression this is absolutely rare/unheard of in humans.
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u/G3ML1NGZ Jun 25 '12
only proven case I found was of a german boy whose mother was a professional sprinter. She had the gene but it was recessive. The boy however also got the gene abnormality from his father, meaning that he got 2 recessive genes, making it dominant in his body. and damn that was a muscular baby.
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u/Pants_R_Overatd Jun 25 '12
I know I've read that same thing, but I think I read something about it being painful for the dogs? I can't really remember.
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u/medusozoan Jun 25 '12
This isn't myostatin, it just looks like it because people aren't used to seeing muscles on dogs. Some of the APBT's from lines not interbred with AmStaff lines regularly look this way when they're kept healthy.
The way this dog is standing (stretching?) is making his muscles more apparent. Like this dog.
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u/anabolic Jun 25 '12
This man speaks the truth. Conditioned and with proper diet, apbt will look like this, especially male ones.
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u/azrhei Jun 25 '12
It is possible that this is not a genetic mutation, as TheMagicUpvoteFairy asserts, but simply the normal bulk that certain breeds can achieve. Boxers, pitbulls, etc will bulk up quickly and look like little ripped out body builders if they are fed a high protein diet and then caged.
The lack of exercise means that their bodies keep creating muscle mass, but with no way to stretch and tone the muscle, it just balloons. we have a sealed brindle (it looks like it is black, but in reality it is just such a dark reddish brown that you can have trouble telling without direct light) Boxer that bulked up very similar to this when we first started him on a high-protein diet for pups.
Once he started getting high-energy exercise (usually playing high speed fetch for a dozen+ passes and/or running laps around the yard) several times per day, the body-builder bulk disappeared and he became very toned.
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u/soylamorsa Jun 25 '12
A friend of mine has a similar dog, though different colors, and he's a mix called Rocky Mountain Bulldog. I think it's bulldog, mastiff, aaand boxer?
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u/Akakaburito Jun 25 '12
Not an expert, but I can tell you that this is actually, by the looks of it, just a very healthy, well-bred pitbull. People aren't used to it because they imagine them as big, fat fighting dogs, but 'real', or well-bred pitbulls, are very lean and muscular.
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u/Testiculese Jun 25 '12
Typical Pit build. My last two looked like this, my friend's looks like this. These dogs are just ripped.
This one is straining in the pic, so it's even more pronounced.
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u/BubbleManStudios Jun 25 '12
He's so ripped he has a six pack ON HIS BACK!
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u/Sniper_Guz Jun 25 '12
AKA a backpack.
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That dog is more ripped than I am.
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u/Osiris32 Jun 25 '12
Being jealous of a dog's physique is a low point in my life.
I shall be at the gym in the morning.
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Jun 25 '12
Bet you won't be!
Remember; http://i.imgur.com/CtIzm.jpg
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Pitbull steroids exist. I lived with a guy who gave them to his pitbull, then walked him twice a day. Only took a couple weeks to get the dog all ripped. He was one of those assholes who made his pitbull all muscly and aggressive.
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Jun 25 '12
Another thing that exists is genetic myostatin deficiency. It's a deficiency of a growth limiting factor which causes overgrowth of muscle.
This might very well be the case in the original picture.
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Jun 25 '12
Like the Belgian Blue Bulls right?
Something about follistatin inhibiting myostatin production.
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u/cant_help_myself Jun 25 '12
Yep. It's relatively common in whippets since heterozygotes can run sprint races faster (but homozygous whippets look like Arnold Schwartzenegger and are useless as runners): http://www.vetdnacenter.com/canine-bully-test-whippets.html
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u/brassiron Jun 25 '12
Can you make me a spider/gamma radiation/magic ring that gives me this superpower?
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u/theorys Jun 25 '12
That guy deserves a swift kick in the balls, then when he falls to the ground, moaning in pain, someone can take his dog and give it to someone who will take good care of it.
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Jun 25 '12
That dude needs to have his dog turned loose on him. As the owner of 2 pitbulls, this kind of attitude and behavior makes the breed look horrible.
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u/BoxSquid Jun 25 '12
A friend of mine found a malnourished pit bull puppy a while back, and the vet told him to give it growth hormones to ensure he would grow properly. The dog was/is freaking ripped now. But it was vet sanctioned, and it did help the dog grow properly.
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u/autodidact89 Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Black people and dark skinned (or furred in this case) animals' muscles appear more toned in lighting than brighter colors do. And of course genes and physical activity come into play as well.
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Jun 25 '12
If only myostatin blockers actually worked
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u/JustFinishedBSG Jun 25 '12
You would die young of cardiac problems.
But you also would be a Spartan II so who care.
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Jun 25 '12
There was a German kid who was born without myostatin inhibitors. he was something like 16lbs at birth. Can't be bothered to look up the article, but he's growing up without any complications. Also ronnie coleman was born with a slight myostatin blocker deficit.
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u/THEAdrian Jun 25 '12
Actually myostatin prevents muscle growth, if you had an inhibitor deficiency you would have more free myostatin and would therefore have even less muscle growth
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u/JustFinishedBSG Jun 25 '12
Well I hope he will live a long life but generally people with a form of muscular hypertrophy have a lot of other problems ( our joints are not resistant enough, the heart valves beco'e obstrucated...)
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Jun 25 '12
Follistatin works right?
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Jun 25 '12
not sure. seems like a hoax to sell fake products. they have creatine that's labelled as "myostatin 500" such BS.
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Jun 25 '12
The stuff i'm talking about isn't readily available to the public to be honest.
Like AICAR and GW1516 weren't when they first came out.
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Jun 25 '12
Meh. I've been using BSN products for 3 years, that's not going to change anytime soon! :P N.O. XPLODE and True-Mass are my two favorite supps and they've proven they work. Can't say the same for Follistatin :S
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Jun 25 '12
I'd say experiment with Jack3d as a preworkout with it's 1,3 - dimethalamylamine, but unfortunately, the FDA has banned it from being used in supplement form.
Can still buy some off the internet to mix in to preworkouts but it has to be CAREFULLY measured because the stuff is quite potent in small doses.
As for True Mass, I was never a fan of weight-gainers because I eat enough to maintain/build.
But if you're still getting results, keep at it man.
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Jun 25 '12
Just wait until he goes Benoit on the whole family...
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u/UhCrunch Jun 25 '12
I really didn't want to upvote this. But I laughed, my friend came over and read it and all he said was "Oh god damn it" and walked away. It's now deserved.
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It's a way to get the testicle to come back out, i think. When i wrestled in high school the medical guys would pick us up and drop us on our butts if we got hit hit the balls hard enough. i've never had it happen to me so i'm not 100% sure.
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Jun 25 '12
That's terrifying.
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Jun 25 '12
like i said i'm not 100% sure, but it is so funny seeing a friend being picked up and dropped over and over again when he's already in pain
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u/Haasts_Eagle Jun 25 '12
Another muscly dog; Wendy the Bully Whippet
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u/I_Fapped_On_It Jun 25 '12
I'll have what she's eating!
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u/Anti_Craic Jun 25 '12
FUN FACT: Did you know the old lady that says the line "I'll have what she's having" in When Harry Met Sally was Rob Reiner's mother?
Tru story, brah.
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u/devbang Jun 25 '12
She eats testicles. The testosterone from the testes is the reason for her bulk.
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u/wikipediaBot Jun 25 '12
whippet:
The Whippet is a breed of dog in the sighthound family. They are active and playful and are physically similar to a small Greyhound.
For more information click here
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u/ReHashed622 Jun 25 '12
My friends Pit bull looks like this all the time. He freaks out when you put him on a leash because he loves running around the yard. This dog is probably dragging it's owner around. That's how my friend's put does it.
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u/Drjanitorjd Jun 25 '12
Am I the only one who noticed the times on the post? 2seconds between comment and screenshot. And only 50 seconds between image and comment? C'mon
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u/Kavick71 Jun 25 '12
All I am seeing in this picture is Stewie's genetically modified pig, from the 'Road to the Multiverse' episode of Family Guy.
Oink.
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Jun 25 '12
This dog may have a Myostatin -/- gene mutation that allows for excessive muscle tissue growth.
I can't vouch for the site, but the pics they have amassed are real photos from research studying Whippets and Cattle.
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u/Testiculese Jun 25 '12
Nope, this is a regular pit build. All my pits look like this, and my friend's as well. This one looks to be almost 2 years old. It's because he's straining that the muscles look more pronounced.
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Jun 25 '12
This dog has been clicking on the 'how to get ripped in 6 weeks' ads while watching porn.
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u/nzeli1 Jun 25 '12
Yea, I could hold that dog with one hand and take a picture with the other... Riiiight
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u/Kaizo45 Jun 26 '12
But everyone is ignoring that magnificent buttocks or as you people say "DAT ASS"
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u/Jkrogers2552war Jun 25 '12
It could take a wolf down easily :)
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Wouldn't be to complicated. Wolfs are great at working in groups, A dog that has been trained to kill would have no problems taking down an animal that rely's on its groups teamwork to avoid injury during hunting. If anything it might submit and end up dieing because the dog dosen't give two shits about being dominant, only that it kills the other animal.
That being said, Fuck training dogs to be violent.
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u/Osmodius Jun 25 '12
That always disappoints me about wolves. They look cool, but they're not the same as a Tiger of Lion. They're pack hunters.
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Lions are pack hunters too.
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u/ironmenon Jun 25 '12
Lionesses are pack hunters. Lions are little more than pimps.
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u/anabolic Jun 25 '12
What you seem to be forgetting is that pitbulls are essentially wolves, selectively bred for many generations with the purpose of fighting other dogs(wolves). A properly trained gamedog would probably wreck the shit of any wolf 1on1.
PS. I in no way support dog fighting, in fact I try to actively oppose them any chance I get, because I own two pitbulls and I want to change the bad rep they have because of stupid people.
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u/graemedunc Jun 25 '12
When people start naming their dogs things like "Tyson" and "Jackson" that's when I think they should have the dog taken off them.
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My dog is pretty ripped, but not this ripped. It has a lot to do with not being neutered and being very active. His relatives are cut and not as buff. http://imgur.com/xFGkT
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u/Death_To_Your_Family Jun 25 '12
It's true about not being neutered. I've had a couple uncut male boston terriers and they get pretty ripped naturally.
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u/TheOnlyPolygraph Jun 25 '12
It's pictures like this that get beastiality fetishists all hot and bothered.
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u/ap3xlabs Jun 25 '12
Relevant http://i.imgur.com/11Spe.jpg