Join Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on /roomfordebate.Endurance: Dwellers with high endurance can withstand a lot of punishment, and are best suited for exploring the wasteland or for manning Nuka-Cola production plants.Ĭharisma: Charismatic dwellers are your most charming citizens and are best suited for work in radio stations.
Thus, inadvertently, breed standards lead potential adopters to treat them more like products with reliable features.ĭogs are individuals, and should be treated thusly. When a dog does not behave in accordance with her "billing," owners call this a "behavior problem" - the single greatest reason for relinquishment of a dog to a shelter. Since the vast majority of dog owners are not showing their dogs, but adding them to their families, the alleged predictability of personality is problematic. Witness the cases of cloned - genetically identical - pets who have, to their owners' great surprise, quite different personalities. While many owners may see breed-typical personalities in their dogs (we humans do tend to spot just the evidence which supports our theories), there is simply no guarantee that a dog will behave just so. Unfortunately, personality is not genetically determined: just as a person's personality derives from more than her genome, a dog is not merchandise whose behavior (outside of a few hard-wired ones, like pointing) can be predicted ahead of time. Mike Segar/Reuters The Cavalier King Charles spaniel may have a painful condition where its brain is too large for its skull.įinally, breed standards include personality descriptions.
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