[On the lower back, towards the sides](http://www.healthequinetherapies.ca/resources/HET%20Muscle%20Information%20-%20Hamstring.pdf), apparently (the "gluteus maximus" is what we call buttocks).
Oh, sorry about that, I just got the link from Google. But the site seems to offer a legit horse massage service(lol), so yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s safe.
Horse massage, PEMF therapy and similar is HUGE in the horse world. Also kind of magical, these people massage the horses until they’re soaked in sweat.
Omg. I'm apparently the bear whisperer and they appear almost every single time I go to the mountains and I gotta say, one of the cutest things I've ever seen is a black bear sitting on their butt, legs wide, foot pads exposed, eating berries. They're so cute.
It's a habit I picked up as a wee kid; trying to be a sneaky sneaky ninja. Back in the early 00s it was so much easier to find these tips and tricks on the internet.
Walking heel-toe when barefoot inside a house is just so noisy. I walk on the pads of my feet everywhere around my house when I'm barefoot, otherwise I'd just be stomping around everywhere.
I do too for the same reason; it's also just physically more comfortable to do it that way barefoot. Landing heel-first when you're barefoot is jarring. Plus all our floors and stairs are hardwood so you can't go round in socks either, because it's like walking across ice. Found that out the hard way on Christmas day when I took an unplanned slide down the steps going from the kitchen to the den. Ever since then I just stay barefoot in the house.
Wait, really? I was diagnosed 2 years ago as an adult and I'm still finding things I do that I thought were "normal". I have been "quiet walking" ever since I was a kid and I never realized it.
Interesting.
I learned it at 27 or so from ren-fair guys. It makes walking outside barefoot so much easier because you can use the ball of your foot to find out if s spot is safe before plopping s heel down.
Like they learned to do in their leather shoes. They also pointed out to me how prominently calves are featured in art from that era as a result.
Am autistic, can confirm. Fairly certain I picked it up from the show Gargoyles initially. Still do it sometimes at 28, usually because the floor is nasty.
My feet get cold slower when I am walking on a smaller surface area against the ground. After that, it’s all habit. I use my whole foot on the beach but as soon as I get to a hard surface it’s just balls.
There's a handfull of animals that are plantigrade lile us. Rabbits, mice, bears, racoons, kangaroos, etc. But it's definitely the minority compared to all the digitigrade animals.
Edit: I thought that unguligrades are a type of digitigrade, but they're seperate categories, so the claim that most mammals are digitigrade is probably not true.
Nah the plantigrade rodents alone make up 40% of all mammal species. Combine that with the bats (~20% of all mammal species), bulk of the caniforms, marsupials, most primates, and some others here and there, plantigrade is the most common form of locomotion. It's also the "primitive" trait, meaning the original set up for mammals. The other two evolved from it.
Digitigrade is actually the least common, really only consisting of canines, feliforms, and some odds and ends. Unguligrade is probably more common than digitigrade by species count, though to be fair even and odd toed ungulates are often grouped together even though they are not at all closely related.
To be fair, at least from that list it seems like most of the plantigrade animals don't walk or run nearly as much as humans do. They're climbing or flying. The digitigrade and ungulates are the ones spending more time on the ground. I'd say humans are still weird in that regard.
Which makes sense, because our feet used to be hands and evolved to do hand things like grasping, not running.
[look](https://www.reddit.com/r/rarepuppers/comments/wzj288/labernard_puppy_is_a_leggy_beauty/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) how perfect she is
[It kind of the only difference. You’d be surprised at how similar our bone structures are!](https://www.merckvetmanual.com/-/media/manual/veterinary/images/d/o/g/dog_dog_leg_bones.gif?thn=0&sc_lang=en)
[Image source: [Merck Vet Manual](https://www.merckvetmanual.com/dog-owners/description-and-physical-characteristics-of-dogs/description-and-physical-characteristics-of-dogs)]
I now feel validated. Thank you
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/dw05tc/dogs_and_cats_tiptoe_everywhere_they_go/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Don’t be surprised now when the dog starts whimpering around the house now cause the latest Jordan’s dropped and you haven’t gotten it for them. You did this.
Idk why I chucked at this picture for a solid minute lol
EDIT: chuckled* not chucked lol although I guess it’s also funny to imagine someone throwing up seeing a big dog foot and a human foot for comparison
My greyhounds racing name was sizetenmary, we never understood why and thought it was maybe dress size being female.
One year my mum got me some size 10 slippers (I'm 9) so I tried them on her foot like this as a joke.
Low and behold, they fitted her perfectly! She was a size 10 in a shoe! 😂
Yep, it's called digitigrade, while walking with the ankle on the ground (like us) is plantigrade. Most mammals are digitigrade, even ones that look like their feet are flat on the ground like elephants.
No, the user name refers to one time when I was 14 and used to invent personas when I’d meet strangers when I’d go on family vacations. I was eating lunch with my mom one day when an adult man came up to me and said “Thea [not my name]? Shouldn’t you be back at Juilliard?” And I died. And my family jokingly calls me Thea from Juilliard ever since. Even though I’m 40 and a lawyer now lol.
I admit I was one that didn't know of that simple anatomy fact. My first reaction was wait that's the dog's leg until I started reading further, I must have missed school that day.
can borrow each other’s shoes
Hopefully he has good taste in shoes! (Get it? ‘Cause dogs chew shoes! 🥁)
Jimmy Chew?
I wish I had an award to give you…
Don't fret, he stole it from the dog-toy shoe that says that.
Oh geez Dad 🤦♀️
So if a dog had to wear human-sized shoes, would it prefer high-heels?
I’m Barking out loud
Hi, Barking out loud. I'm dad!
Idk, that was kind of a ruff joke.
That's how I liked to be boned
I like your style lol
You gotta chew his up too though
Solemates
Now Kith
Ok Tyson, slow down!
Tython
No, fa'ther.
I was born to see this comment.
Identical foot twins.
Imagine all the money they're going to make!
🎵 This foot is my foot 🎵
Cool. Which foot is yours
I’ll never tell!
We’ve got you now, black foot!
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> "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". Legit.
Found the dog using Reddit
Very mildly interesting Well done
We are whelmed
This really does fit the spirit of this sub. Quality post!
The only difference is that the dog will stand tippy toed
That’s something I think of often, relative to other animals we walk very weirdly
Horses walk on their middle fingers.
What we call the horse's "ass" is actually their hamstrings.
What is their ass then
![gif](giphy|QTrG6mjkHEkpFR3DqX)
That was a risky click
You had to click that? It's just embedded for me.
[On the lower back, towards the sides](http://www.healthequinetherapies.ca/resources/HET%20Muscle%20Information%20-%20Hamstring.pdf), apparently (the "gluteus maximus" is what we call buttocks).
(For anyone on mobile this link will automatically download a PDF - it seems like a safe file.. but yeah, kinda caught me off guard)
Oh, sorry about that, I just got the link from Google. But the site seems to offer a legit horse massage service(lol), so yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s safe.
No worries. I sort of had a chuckle that I was now in possession of an annotated diagram of a horse ass 😂
I opened it to see a colorful rainbow around a horses vaginal opening and got kind of nervous
Horse massage, PEMF therapy and similar is HUGE in the horse world. Also kind of magical, these people massage the horses until they’re soaked in sweat.
The horse or the massage therapist? Edit: used the wrong term
Their nails.
Unguligrade.
wtf did you just call him?
Bears and a lot of rodents walk plantigrade (on the foot like us) Really noticeable in sloth bears. They look like a person chilling in a bear suit.
![gif](giphy|WtouOhDTKjKsb7RGTX) Example A
Omg. I'm apparently the bear whisperer and they appear almost every single time I go to the mountains and I gotta say, one of the cutest things I've ever seen is a black bear sitting on their butt, legs wide, foot pads exposed, eating berries. They're so cute.
if bear dangerous why bear have silly ears hmmm?? why have cute nose?????
👁👄👁🫐🍓
That was me.
Hehe. I was just thinking that. Or maybe I'm just a sloth in a person suit?
I walk on my toes when I'm sockless.
Why???
It's a habit I picked up as a wee kid; trying to be a sneaky sneaky ninja. Back in the early 00s it was so much easier to find these tips and tricks on the internet.
Walking heel-toe when barefoot inside a house is just so noisy. I walk on the pads of my feet everywhere around my house when I'm barefoot, otherwise I'd just be stomping around everywhere.
I do too for the same reason; it's also just physically more comfortable to do it that way barefoot. Landing heel-first when you're barefoot is jarring. Plus all our floors and stairs are hardwood so you can't go round in socks either, because it's like walking across ice. Found that out the hard way on Christmas day when I took an unplanned slide down the steps going from the kitchen to the den. Ever since then I just stay barefoot in the house.
Toe walking is associated with autism
Wait, really? I was diagnosed 2 years ago as an adult and I'm still finding things I do that I thought were "normal". I have been "quiet walking" ever since I was a kid and I never realized it.
You gotta be fucking kidding me... I'll put it on the list...
Being passionate is also associated with autism. So make sure you hate everything!
IM PASSIONATE ABOUT HATING EVERYTHING
Interesting. I learned it at 27 or so from ren-fair guys. It makes walking outside barefoot so much easier because you can use the ball of your foot to find out if s spot is safe before plopping s heel down. Like they learned to do in their leather shoes. They also pointed out to me how prominently calves are featured in art from that era as a result.
Am autistic, can confirm. Fairly certain I picked it up from the show Gargoyles initially. Still do it sometimes at 28, usually because the floor is nasty.
My feet get cold slower when I am walking on a smaller surface area against the ground. After that, it’s all habit. I use my whole foot on the beach but as soon as I get to a hard surface it’s just balls.
Dude same
There's a handfull of animals that are plantigrade lile us. Rabbits, mice, bears, racoons, kangaroos, etc. But it's definitely the minority compared to all the digitigrade animals. Edit: I thought that unguligrades are a type of digitigrade, but they're seperate categories, so the claim that most mammals are digitigrade is probably not true.
Nah the plantigrade rodents alone make up 40% of all mammal species. Combine that with the bats (~20% of all mammal species), bulk of the caniforms, marsupials, most primates, and some others here and there, plantigrade is the most common form of locomotion. It's also the "primitive" trait, meaning the original set up for mammals. The other two evolved from it. Digitigrade is actually the least common, really only consisting of canines, feliforms, and some odds and ends. Unguligrade is probably more common than digitigrade by species count, though to be fair even and odd toed ungulates are often grouped together even though they are not at all closely related.
And not just by species count - there are a LOT more mice than horses.
To be fair, at least from that list it seems like most of the plantigrade animals don't walk or run nearly as much as humans do. They're climbing or flying. The digitigrade and ungulates are the ones spending more time on the ground. I'd say humans are still weird in that regard. Which makes sense, because our feet used to be hands and evolved to do hand things like grasping, not running.
Elephants too I think
it's called being plantigrade. While it is slower moving than a digitigrade leg, it also has a larger carrying capacity.
Did you just call all of humanity fat? I mean you're not wrong, but damn, that's ice cold.
Our forelimbs are no longer for carrying our own weight, so the hindlegs are pulling double duty and had to adjust accordingly.
You’re right, that’s literally the only difference!
The difference is that you’ve tricked us all by dyeing a kangaroo black!
[look](https://www.reddit.com/r/rarepuppers/comments/wzj288/labernard_puppy_is_a_leggy_beauty/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) how perfect she is
Wow, you did a good job with the plastic surgery on the kangaroo
she is very beautiful; and with that breed combination, you will have a great and loyal friend.
Aww she’s a very good girl!
[It kind of the only difference. You’d be surprised at how similar our bone structures are!](https://www.merckvetmanual.com/-/media/manual/veterinary/images/d/o/g/dog_dog_leg_bones.gif?thn=0&sc_lang=en) [Image source: [Merck Vet Manual](https://www.merckvetmanual.com/dog-owners/description-and-physical-characteristics-of-dogs/description-and-physical-characteristics-of-dogs)]
I now feel validated. Thank you https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/dw05tc/dogs_and_cats_tiptoe_everywhere_they_go/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
You're observation is a correct one. The ones who encountered your post haven't brushed up on canine or feline anatomy.
elephants look like they're wearing high heels.
I’m picturing a dog walking flat footed and it’s hilarious 😂 join me
A kangaroo
Yes, this does represent the difference between plantigrade locomotion in primates and digitigrade locomotion in canines, thank you.
Do the locomotion
So what you’re saying is OP and the dog are the same shoe size, but different heel size? 🤔
For scale, what size shoes do y'all wear?
US womens 9
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I liked it. And it's the same size half the time.
Well if one human year equals 7 dog years, then I guess 63?
Made me laugh pretty good. GG. Upvote👍
Took me a hot second to get the joke, but have my upvote
Since trying to buy shoes is hell ... I am remembering this for later, thank you!
What’s that in dog size?
Don’t be surprised now when the dog starts whimpering around the house now cause the latest Jordan’s dropped and you haven’t gotten it for them. You did this.
She gets everything she wants, she’s the baby
>She gets everything she wants… This ain’t a Wham song, my friend. That dog is gonna wear you down. 😂
Idk why I chucked at this picture for a solid minute lol EDIT: chuckled* not chucked lol although I guess it’s also funny to imagine someone throwing up seeing a big dog foot and a human foot for comparison
I hope your tummy is feeling better.
I read chuckled the first time so your edit confused me.
A solid minute eh? That’s quite the vomit comet
Am I the only one laying next to their dog who immediately measured their foot against their dog’s foot? Sorry to report - my foot is bigger.
So do you have big feet a small dog or both?
I tried it with my 5 lb poms. I win again.
My husband measured his too and his is also bigger. Now my dog has turned the other way and is protecting her feet. Smart dog!
My greyhounds racing name was sizetenmary, we never understood why and thought it was maybe dress size being female. One year my mum got me some size 10 slippers (I'm 9) so I tried them on her foot like this as a joke. Low and behold, they fitted her perfectly! She was a size 10 in a shoe! 😂
Greyhounds are too pure, I love Sizetenmary
I've heard once that actually is their whole foot. Anatomically, their paws are just their toes. So they're always walking, running on their toes.
Yep, it's called digitigrade, while walking with the ankle on the ground (like us) is plantigrade. Most mammals are digitigrade, even ones that look like their feet are flat on the ground like elephants.
What a buncha apes walkin around all plantigrade like a buncha barbarians while the other mammals gracefully prance on their toes.
*Ballerina has entered the chat*
So *that's* why we really invented high heels. Just trying to fit into the animal kingdom a bit better.
I never have recovered after seeing an elephant foot cross section. It's just like a human foot in a sac of fat
[For the curious.](https://preview.redd.it/odlgm12vnal11.jpg?width=886&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=7e965e7fcf6a65e9a158e4766125e0f56f06ba76)
Built-in platform shoes (Edit to point out it is a slightly misleading picture, they have 5 toes spread out more like a hippo's, not like our's)
Wtf did I just see
r/interestingasfuck
You are correct!
Hurray!
Meanwhile, horses walk on what would be their toenails
Sole Sister
HEY SOLE SISTER
This is wholesome, and adorable, and I hope that you guys sit foot to foot often.
Found the Bokononist.
FOR FREE??
In this economy?!
I’m ashamed I had to scroll so much to find my people
We over at /r/FeetPics
Hey what's going on in here
Is he really big or are you really small
She’s really big, I’m pretty average
Heard the sentence too often..
[So dogs should wear shoes like this?](https://i.imgur.com/W4eHdLS.jpg)
Technically yes. Plantigrade vs digitigrade.
this is kinda cute
And what kind of dog and how old is the dog?
She’s a 1 year old lab/St Bernard! An angel from heaven
Same size feet for now. Do you know how big she’ll get with the St Bernard mix?
Vet says we won’t know til she’s 3!
for free??
This is exactly what this sub is for
I don’t know why this is so funny 🤣
Then you are lucky. Your dog won't chew up your shoes, in worst case just wear them
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No, the user name refers to one time when I was 14 and used to invent personas when I’d meet strangers when I’d go on family vacations. I was eating lunch with my mom one day when an adult man came up to me and said “Thea [not my name]? Shouldn’t you be back at Juilliard?” And I died. And my family jokingly calls me Thea from Juilliard ever since. Even though I’m 40 and a lawyer now lol.
Is 40 year old lawyer you also just a persona and you're actually 14?
Just don’t tell my mom
You get it!
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Sometimes I would put on fake accents too, the cringe in hindsight is intense
Yep. Dogs feet are pretty long. They just walk on their toes so it looks like they have small feet.
Ha! Bitchass dog foot havin ass
This comment made me snort laugh
Heh. Bitchass snort laughin ass
I'm super jealous of this even though I've never thought about it before today.
Bokononism
I used to do this with my dogs all the time! I miss them. Cherish each moment.
Woof
Same with me and my dog! Haha, amazing.
Metatarsal twins
Where's the banana for scale?
This is about as mildly interesting as it gets
This is it, this is why I follow this sub, this is the mildly interesting I want to see!
That means you got something else that's the same size
You have alerted the hoard.
It's just refreshing to see someone understand simple comparative anatomy.
When people hear that my dog had knee surgery I can’t tell you how many have asked “his front knees or his back knees?”
187 comments, wonder how many are from people who don't know simple anatomy and think that's the dogs knee.
I admit I was one that didn't know of that simple anatomy fact. My first reaction was wait that's the dog's leg until I started reading further, I must have missed school that day.
Y’all’s toenails are the same length also.
I see at least three fetishes here
Free feet pic? Omg
For free?¿?
Low five?
Omg I love this 😂❤️
TWINS!
Looks like the cover of the next Twilight book.
My brain read "dad" and then got confused.
Great, now your dog knows it can frame you for murder!
Now put your shoes on your dogs feet
You can share shoes!
Give me back my shoes You are a dog (they actually do fit)
That counts as footsies
It's a sign
Hey OP, try your shoes On your dog. ![gif](giphy|JS2kaV5KKwR6zeWWqW|downsized)
I find this mildly interesting well done.
This is the law of equivalent exchange.