shitposting

Yeah this selective breeding to the point where an animals suffers from it needs to become illegal. Birds who have osteoporosis because they lay an egg every day, dogs that can't breathe because their noses are flat, cows who can barely walk because of how much meat they're carrying on their bones, cows who are in pain if they're not milked daily, sheep whose own hair is so heavy it causes them pain, dogs with hip dysplasia because their leg to spine ratio is off. It's all cruelty for the sake of humans fulfilling their desires. And it's so sad to see.

But it's so cute how it breathes like it's constantly struggling for air!

Dogs in the left still exist.

In my area in the Alps the "patou" are regularly fighting wolves to protect their sheep.

Should've used a pug on the right side. They're not cute, they're not funny, they're the current apex of "pointless, disease-ridden breed".

To be fair, I also changed my food, and I also now have diarrhea.

I didn't know the phrase "free whelping" until I was reading about some pure breed that was known for being able to give birth without medical intervention, on account of there are some breeds in which it's fairly common to need C-sections. Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that being able to give birth unaided ought to be a baseline of health for any goddamn dog in the fucking world.

Inbreeding dogs should be illegal. If you breed dogs (or cats/other pets), you should be required to submit proof that the parents are genetically far enough apart.

However, sometimes it's not the dog that's the problem, it's the food. Pet food has basically no regulations and no real way to independently verify the quality of ingredients, so companies will use the cheapest scraps possible that were otherwise headed for the dumpster, while charging similar to or even more than human food. And they'll blatantly lie in their marketing material claiming they only use the most wholesome ingredients, because they know full well there's no way for you to actually prove or disprove that.

Same with the cats with short paws. And it progresses apparently getting even shorter, i seen some that have paws so short they barely can move, it's no different from mutilation.