“If God gives you a purebred dog, He’ll throw in a purebred disease too.”

That’s the blunt truth — and it’s what this new episode is all about:
how our obsession with aesthetic ideals for different breeds has condemned dogs to breed-specific issues and hereditary disorders.

I won’t pretend — this episode, and this text, were hard to create. Because I’m furious.
It’s an infuriating, cruel topic that doesn't exactly cast humanity in the best light.
I tried to keep things calm — but stayed factual. I combed through every corner of the internet: studies, articles, meta-analyses, all of it.
Still, it was tough to write. I couldn’t squeeze out anything soft, uplifting, or comforting — I poured all of that into the episode itself.
Please give it a listen. It’s a genuinely fascinating (and heartbreakingly grim) topic. Here’s one of the key takeaways:

“More than 80 diseases are linked to aesthetic breed standards. That’s roughly a quarter of all hereditary diseases in dogs.”

But of course, I’ve also prepared some anchor points from the episode for you:

👑 What King Charles II and King Charles Spaniels have in common (besides royalty!)
🤼 MMA-style scuffles in the field — how Shanti and Riddick learned to speak the same language
🦔 Sonic X, piebaldism, and other English terms that just casually migrated into the Russian version of the podcast
🐁 What Dalmatians and white Bull Terriers share
🌵 Explain your smallness — and why gigantism is just plain inappropriate
🔮 The transparency of knowledge effect — or who are you without your GPT?
🤥 The encyclopedia of obscure breeds: the mythology of the Navarre Pachón and the Andean Tiger Hound
🧬 A thoroughly anti-intellectual tale about how I (tried to) get Riddick’s genetic test results

And more stories about how breed standards turn into genetic diseases and structural issues.

So with that, I bow out — not wishing you an exactly pleasant listen, but a thought-provoking one.

🩵🩶 Listen, learn, soak up the insights and research from the episode — and don’t forget to drop by the podcast’s Telegram channel: t.me/pyoscast. It’s no longer just tumbleweeds over there — it’s getting more useful (and funnier), I promise. 🩶🩵

Double Standards: How Breed Standards Became Breed Disorders | Episode 6

The episode turned out to be nostalgic and rambling. So much so that listening to it is equivalent to a week of peace in a quiet village nestled in the velvet folds of wooded hills, where the air is fresh and the thoughts are pure. In short, a true remedy for a soul dusted by cityscapes.

With gentle paws, I spin the Wheel of Balance and reflect on 30 years of life alongside dogs — so naturally, all the lessons in the episode are about dogs. But on closer inspection, they’re not what they seem: after all, Krylov’s fables about swans, crayfish and pike — or a chef’s cat — aren’t really about swans or crayfish or cats at all.

But enough with the curtsies — here’s a sneak peek of what awaits inside:
🌅 Breaking news for sunset fans at Lake Como and other Italian surroundings;
🎤 “The Dog Days Are Over”: how karaoke nights relate to learning English idioms and why dogs get blamed again;
💉 Fear and loathing in family therapy;
🦥 A good-enough human and a dog-human partnership with a secure attachment style;
📸 Exclusive content: paparazzi caught Riddick chilling on a plane (see the video version);
🛠 Modern wisdoms: still waters run deep, and fragile girls often house totalitarian dictators;
💸 The mystery of the homeless with dogs — solved;
🥖 Foie gras, doctor’s sausage, and Borodinsky bread with butter;
👺 “Alarm! Aggression!” — and what’s really lurking underneath;
🐺 The second life of macho-man quotes and wolfish lessons inherited from dogs;
👨‍🌾 A scandalous skirmish in the labyrinths of Petrogradka, or how a stranger’s father-in-law saved me from slander;
🍾 Secrets of collecting dog poop with flair;
✨ How life with a dog can inspire creativity, heal your body, and even help you learn foreign languages;
👵 Spiritual wisdom from my grandma, and why it’s worth listening to.

And more — a whole 30 free life lessons about dog life and life with dogs, earned externally and entirely free of charge! Rush to grab them on your favorite podcast platform before they’re all gone.

🩵🩶 Listen, learn, soak up the insights and research from the episode — and don’t forget to drop by the podcast’s Telegram channel: t.me/pyoscast. It’s no longer just tumbleweeds over there — it’s getting more useful (and funnier), I promise. 🩶🩵

30 (doggy) life lessons before 30 (human) | Episode 7

Всем вуф и виляющий хвост, на связи Пёскаст. И это первый в мире подкаст про собак от первого собачьего лица!
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Что за чушь, возмутитесь вы, — а я вам объясню: в лохматых 90-х на суровом и пронзительном Дальнем Востоке родилась девочка Настя; и, как полагается с первым ребенком, воспитывали ее всем федеральным округом, — включая собаку.
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Вот та самая девочка — это я: интеллектуально воспитана людьми, а чувственно-сердечно — бультерьером.
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Мало мне было такого экспириенса, — в 2019 я решила завести собственную собаку. Чтобы передать ей уроки собачейшества, доставшиеся мне по наследству.
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За годы собаковладения накопилось тем на обгавкать: про клички, породы, кинологов, кормёжку, прививки, болячки, генетику, ранние подъемы, собак-убийц, короткую шерсть и другие мифы об упсыновлении,  — обсудим всё, что нежно волнует умы собачьих энтузиастов!
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Пёскаст рекомендуется принимать в любое время суток, в частности, при повышенном давлении "лучше бы детей завели" и аналогичных симптомах.
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А если вы хотите не только употреблять Пёскаст, но и приложить к нему лапу, — обязательно напишите мне прямиком в Telegram (https://t.me/nachenkinanas), и мы вместе поведаем миру о вашей собачке!
И спешите подписаться на телеграмм-канал подкаста (а то вдруг он не резиновый!) — там уютно, забавно и познавательно: https://t.me/pyoscast 🩵🩶

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