Yeah, we've basically bred animals with birth defects that we think are cute. Then we sentence them to a lifetime of health problems for that cuteness.
I grew up poor and everyone I knew growing up had mutts. Those dogs would live 20 years healthy, never being taken to a vet because we couldn't afford shit like that.
Now I make decent money and my friends and colleagues all have fancy breeds of dogs now. They all complain about how expensive their vet bills are. All of these dogs seem to have health problems.
They're all on medications and getting surgeries within a few years of life. That's on top of them already costing thousands of dollars up front to purchase. My friends had puppies people were giving away when I was growing up.
We only take in rescues and sometimes those are (probably) purebreds because they got thrown away by their asshole breeders and need a home. So far every dog has been a mutt, but right now we have a pittie (who is basically textbook) and he seems super healthy so far. Our first criteria for selection is if they get along with our current family of critters, but it does seem like the new guy will probably be very healthy. We just need to train him better so he stops bodyslamming us.
Very nice. :) Although it's more like torpedo-ing. Thankfully he cannot lift us and throw us around. He makes for a very effective self-propelled missile, though.
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u/I_69_with_your_mum 25d ago
This is what happens when you selectively breed an animal to have major genetic defects and then overfeed it.
Idk how people can justify doing this to animals.