Posted on June 7, 2005 by Jenna
1. The Scientist’s Lament
Breeding invisible dogs to win incredible prizes at dog shows is difficult! That’s why so few people do it.
There are all kinds of difficulties that people face in invisible dog breeding. The dogs might chew up your couch. An invisible circus owner might steal your dogs. You might get fleas. It’s a rollicking road and you have to learn to face whatever comes with a smile! But there are two difficulties in particular that newcomers often ask about immediately after getting started.
Wait! How can you breed an invisible dog? There’s no invisibility gene in nature!
The answer to this is simple. Dogs don’t have an invisibility gene, but many other things are invisible. Ghosts, invisible people, conspiracies, minorities, and bacteria are all very difficult to see. Splicing genes from them into your dog embryos easily produces a magnificent invisible dog.*
- Warning: some of these may instead produce a dog that people could see, but choose not to.
I’ve got some invisible dogs, but I can’t tell if they’re breeding.
Don’t worry! You’re only uncertain because they’re not actually breeding yet. When the marvelous angel of estrous bestows its blessing on your invisible dogs, there will be no occasion for doubt.
2. Crisis of Imaginary Dogs
Some people think that they can get around the difficulties of breeding invisible dogs by breeding imaginary dogs. Imaginary dogs are always invisible!
The problem with imaginary dogs is that most imaginary dogs are falsifiable. That is, people at dog shows are highly trained to detect imaginary dogs. They will smell your imaginary dog, weigh your imaginary dog, and encourage your imaginary dog to eat special invisible treats. If your dog isn’t real you’ll fail these tests and they’ll give you last prize! That’s no good at all for your self-esteem and it can absolutely crush your imaginary dog.
That’s why the primary focus of most invisible dog breeders is not normal invisible dogs or ordinary imaginary dogs but a special subclass: the unfalsifiable dog.
Unfalsifiable dogs exist principally in the subtle realm of the spirit. You can’t disprove them—they’re too subjective and open to interpretation! Genuine unfalsifiable dogs are best, but even imaginary unfalsifiable dogs are strong competitors against typical entries like Great Danes and beagles. With persistence and good grooming habits, you will win first prize!
3. The Great Work
It is important not to rest on your laurels once your unfalsifiable dog has won the first prize. Now more than ever you must work hard to breed new useful traits into your unfalsifiable dog’s line!
If you breed your unfalsifiable dog with a frictionless dog, this produces a litter of puppies that are both frictionless and unfalsifiable. These dogs have a distinct advantage in a show that involves herding sheep, because many shows use advanced modern low-friction sheep. Ordinary dogs have trouble herding low-friction sheep, and low-friction dogs can achieve parity, but a frictionless dog takes the whole affair to a new level! In addition it is fun to watch them sail majestically around the floor of the show.
If you breed your unfalsifiable dog with a mortar schnauzer, the puppies will be unfalsifiable heavy artillery. You can use them to smash down enemy fortifications, and no one can prove that you can’t! You may wish to obtain a memo from Alberto Gonzales before bombarding things with puppies, however, as this has been expressly forbidden in the Geneva Conventions.
If you breed your unfalsifiable dog with an unverifiable dog, you will produce a grim dog that reveals how weak human comprehension is in the face of infinity! These terrible beagles are often given high marks as a craven attempt at conciliation. It’s not good to win dog shows by fear instead of quality, but the most important thing is to win at any cost.
4. Looking Forward
Over the course of hundreds of years your efforts will produce an entirely new breed of dogs. This is how humans first invented the Chihuahua and the Modular Dane, and this is the very process from which the heralded Revelation Dog will come.
Where will your work fall in this great tapestry of life? Enter the exciting world of invisible dog breeding and find out!
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