My dog is such a dumbass he would spit out the immortality pill even if I cover it with peanut butter
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I have 2 dogs, 1 that does this and 1 that eats everything including cat shit from the litter box. That dumbass will live forever if I give him this pill, because he’d eat his sister’s too.
Oh don't get me wrong, mine will eat basically anything. The only thing that he will fuss about is pills. He'll eat random nuts, berries, and discarded food on the ground when I take him for a walk, but God forbid I try to give him his flea&tick for the month
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Have you tried something like a Pill Pocket?
My goldie-mutt would spit out every pill I ever gave her no matter how much cheese or peanut butter it was buried in, but since we started using these she gobbles them up instantly. The ding dong thinks she's getting a treat everyday but joke's on her, it's her medicine.
Pill pockets worked on my cat twice. After that he was like "waitaminute! This is medicine!" So now I put the pill in the pocket and just shove it down his throat and he gets real treats afterwards.
That's probably because your cat chews her food, while my pupper inhales food as if she's never gonna eat again, despite what every past day in her life might indicate. 😂
Really? Our cat acts like pill pockets are frickin crack. She's like "GIVE ME PILL POCKETS NOW!"
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The article doesn't say how this works at all.
It sounds awesome, but I'd like to know more about it before I gave my dog a magic chewable.
LOX-002 inhibits insulin like growth factor 2 which is thought to reduce useful lifespans of dogs through some metabolic mechanism
wait. metformin does the same thing.
Leftists: Only the rich will get the longevity drugs!
Reality: Let's give it to the dogs...
edit: And they fucking deserve it, after what we did to them by years of selective breeding!
Reality: "let's test it on the dogs."
How do people not see that this is the ultimate subscription fee?
Yeah, because surely the drug is the same...
People will try taking it.
hydroxychloroquine 💅🤦♂️
That shit is poison. I'll take a monthly covid infection if I can get rid of the hcq.
Oh my god, they will
Plot twist: it turns you into an immortal furry-anthro-dog
Sold. Beats NOT being immortal. If im immortal ill have time to fix it, eventually
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And I can make an educated guess as to who will be suggesting it.
Coulda used that sometime before last week :/
If it's any condolences, it's probably still a few years away from public access.
I'm sorry mate that you lost your doggo. Take care
Damn maybe that one crackhead that kidnapped a scientist to make a dog live forever was onto something.
Is there any research going on for anti-aging in cats yet?
There is a vaccine that is supposed to prevent kidney failure in cats, causing their life expectancy to double
Awesome
I was trying to figure out why the one dog in this picture looked so weird
Turns out it's two dogs
Why, though? Greedy breeders already "produce" more dogs than there are loving families for and as a result dog shelters are constantly full with sad dogs who don´t have a home. This drug will result in shelters getting even more overcrowded. Death is a natural part of life, just as birth, I wish more people would get that.
Why, though?
I'm pretty cynical, but this is a new level.
Greedy breeders already "produce" more dogs than there are loving families for and as a result dog shelters are constantly full with sad dogs who don´t have a home. This drug will result in shelters getting even more overcrowded.
My dog lives longer and shelters get more crowded? That's a complete non-sequitor. Much like my choice of lunch doesn't impact your lunch situation.
Perhaps my reading comprehension is poor, but the article seems to indicate that the pill will give a dog more "active years" and not necessarily more years. I guess we'll find out in four years when it's done.
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Yeah, what we need is something that makes dogs have shorter lives, like up to a year at most. Wait what?
What actually shortens the life expectancy of dogs is the kind of selective breeding for unreasonable external characteristics that has long been carried out by greedy and/or ignorant dog breeders.
Sounds like you need to have a chat with them, not folks who own a dog they like, already.
This might eventually help us understand how to extend human lives.
But why would we want that? In my opinion that would be a mistake. The planet is already severely overpopulated and as I said, death is a natural part of life, just like birth.
I want my senior, rescue dog to live longer, as long as he's healthy and happy.
That is of course very sweet of you and I understand it on a personal level. You love your dog and would do anything for him and so you even wish he could live infinitely if that was possible. However, maybe you could also try to understand my reasoning as well? I was talking about human/canine society as a whole and if all humans and/or dogs would get to live, let´s say, twice as long or even become immortal, that would lead to severe problems regarding overpopulation, don´t you agree?
I don't think there would be overpopulation. There would be changes to breeding laws. It would become much more of a "thing" to create a new life.
I envy your optimism.
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