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This chihuahua confronts the viewer with a full-face stare, claws drawn. It strives to transcend its unfortunate genetic inheritance. Its rounded features call to mind the noble bovine.
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Unlike the child's toy it is doomed to become, pathetic in the sense of risible,
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the puppy is not crap. Rather, it is pathetic in the sense of pitiable.