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plonqI do not, and never will understand the appeal of keeping horribly inbred, malformed animals as pets. This is essentially torture for our own self-absorbed amusement.
At what point does somebody decide, "It's so ugly that it's cute. It's adorable how it struggles to breath, and how its eyes bug out painfully because its mutated skull is so small. I love how I have to clean between the deep folds of its skin to prevent infection and gangrene from setting in."
I am not a dog person, but I like dogs. I like mutts. I find mixed breed dogs to be more intelligent and personable in almost every regard. I like dogs that don't have spines that spontaneously snap because we've bred to resemble walking footstools. I prefer dogs whose hips don't fall apart as part of the process of growing up. I am more partial to dogs whose skulls aren't so malformed that their eyes are pushed out of their sockets.
Though not to the same extent, we've done the same thing to cats. We've bred them without hair. We've bred them with faces so concave that they can't breathe through their noses.
I don't understand people who find these debilitating mutations appealing.
I don't understand why we support people who inbreed them relentlessly in an effort to make them worse.
I detest dog shows for encouraging this kind of thing.
At what point does somebody decide, "It's so ugly that it's cute. It's adorable how it struggles to breath, and how its eyes bug out painfully because its mutated skull is so small. I love how I have to clean between the deep folds of its skin to prevent infection and gangrene from setting in."
I am not a dog person, but I like dogs. I like mutts. I find mixed breed dogs to be more intelligent and personable in almost every regard. I like dogs that don't have spines that spontaneously snap because we've bred to resemble walking footstools. I prefer dogs whose hips don't fall apart as part of the process of growing up. I am more partial to dogs whose skulls aren't so malformed that their eyes are pushed out of their sockets.
Though not to the same extent, we've done the same thing to cats. We've bred them without hair. We've bred them with faces so concave that they can't breathe through their noses.
I don't understand people who find these debilitating mutations appealing.
I don't understand why we support people who inbreed them relentlessly in an effort to make them worse.
I detest dog shows for encouraging this kind of thing.
