I’m Not Gonna Lie. When I Just Learned The Truth About Dogs, It Made Me Sick.

[Catty1]

6. The German Shepherd Dog has been mutated into a dog that can barely walk, compared to its predecessor. The German Shepherd used to be a large, muscular dog that could jump and run without any issue. Now, it is an angulated, barrel-chested, sloping back, ataxic breed. The breed changes serve no purpose and only hurt the dog.

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7. The St. Bernard has always been a large dog, but now the modern breed has been oversized, had it’s faced squished in, and bred for abundant skin. The dog quickly overheats and cannot work like the breed was meant to. Their common diseases include entropion, ectropion, Stockard’s paralysis, hemophilia, osteosarcoma, aphakia and fibrinogen deficiency.

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7. The Pug is another dog that was bred to be extremely brachycephalic breed (with its nose squashed in) and it has all the problems associated with that trait; high blood pressure, heart problems, low oxygenation, difficulty breathing, tendency to overheat, dentition problems, and skin fold dermatitis. Even the double-curl tail is actually a genetic defect, in more serious forms it leads to paralysis.

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And if new puppies don’t fit these ridiculous (and often harmful) breed standards? They are culled by breeders, which means completely healthy puppies are euthanized, just because they don’t look perfect.
This is sick.

[chocolatepuppy]

It makes me sick too to see what they're doing to some of the breeds.

[Randi]

It's disgusting that breeders are allowed to do this. In the future, many won't be recognizeable.(can't spell that)

[Karen]

Anything humans do can be taken too far. I do put the fault on dog shows, and the artificial standards they invent and purport to uphold.

[Jessika]

OMG do I *ever* agree with the statement "there is no healthy bulldog". I think the fact that these dogs can no longer reproduce naturally without human/medical intervention speaks for itself.

I think the most alarming changes to me are the bull terrier (they have seriously messed this breed up mentally) and German Shepherd.

[mon]

Simply reading about this makes me very uncomforatable, It's obcene and sad.

[Karen]

OMG do I *ever* agree with the statement "there is no healthy bulldog". I think the fact that these dogs can no longer reproduce naturally without human/medical intervention speaks for itself.

I think the most alarming changes to me are the bull terrier (they have seriously messed this breed up mentally) and German Shepherd.

Yes, I see the German Shepherds in show, and their hips just look painful to me! Give me a good, healthy dog any day, those artificially low back ends just cause trouble! And that they have distorted the Bulldog and even some other of the "push-face" dogs so C-section are required SHOULD be a hint that the breed standard need to be modified for healthier dogs!

And while we are at it, stop cropping ears and tails when it serves no other purpose than looks!

[lolli94]

Anything humans do can be taken too far. I do put the fault on dog shows, and the artificial standards they invent and purport to uphold.

I agree with Karen on this.

[Lady's Human]

The destruction of the German Shepherds as a breed is sad, but my father told me years ago that they "Bred the brains out of them". There's a reason my uncle Fred got his shepherds from Germany instead of getting them from a "reputable" breeder in the states.

[Karen]

The destruction of the German Shepherds as a breed is sad, but my father told me years ago that they "Bred the brains out of them". There's a reason my uncle Fred got his shepherds from Germany instead of getting them from a "reputable" breeder in the states.

Ayup - even if his Trooper ended up with "ears so big his brains fell out" (as Uncle Fred used to joke), at least his hips were fine, and he was a gorgeous, healthy dog!