Dog Breeds We’d Like to See

We hear a lot of talk about innovation. Medium is filled with stories about technological, biomedical, and financial innovation, but what about old school innovation? Do the people who used to develop things just stop progressing when other people start making cooler things than them?

Do the mechanical engineers look at the all the press that electrical engineers get and just want to give up?

What about animal breeding? Breeding animals has been a hot spot of innovation ever since the Neolithic Revolution, but what have animal breeders done for us lately? The last domesticated animal was the hamster, circa 1960, and we still don’t have a domesticated cat the size of a labrador retriever. Why not? I’m no marketing genius but I would bet that a 45 pound domesticated cat would be a bigger hit than the iPhone. I, for example, don’t care if I have an iPhone or not, but I would really like to have a 45 pound cat.

I’ll be blunt. I’d like the Agriculture Schools (You know who you are, and last time I looked my taxes were paying for your tenured teaching gigs) to get back to work in the animal husbandry shed and start breeding some animals we could use. [the wet sound you just heard was a vegan’s head exploding].

I wish we didn’t use animals, but since we do, let’s move beyond hypoallergenic labradoodles and lap dogs that look…