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Documentry on problems with Pedegree dogs Anonymous
Split into 6, 10min parts

"Pedigree Dogs Exposed"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1LyjlX4Mp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUbCvS0ZEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpR5su-PQ0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDKwbWA5Tdg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szl30xomLXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJffepQY3Y

Whats everyone's opinion? A breed trait over quality of life?
>> Anonymous
Pic is dying to be captioned.
>> Anonymous
>>294724
This
>> Anonymous
Very intresting and alarming, I think everyone should watch this. Anybody happen to know the name of the document which deals with how different dog breeds formed?
>> Anonymous
This just in: Dog breeders are crazy amoral eugenicists.
>> Anonymous
I want to euthanize that woman at the end of the 2nd part. Inhumanely. With a shovel.
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>>294724
>> Anonymous
I love the RSPCA vet, he seems like a cool guy.

And>>295144, I'd like to join you.
Old, bitchy cunt.
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>>294895
Kennel Club Breed Standards?
>> Anonymous
i want hem to make a dog that shoots bees out of it's mouth
>> Anonymous
I have two pedigree dogs, perfectly healthy, good quality of life and they'll live around 15 years.

That documentary just highlights problems that rarely happen if the breeding is done correctly.
>> Anonymous
>>295925
but all too often, breeding is NOT done correctly. I have no plans to watch the OP's videos as I doubt they contain anything I haven't seen before... but for every breeder doing things RIGHT, there are hundreds doing things WRONG.
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>>295925
Agreed, my family have kept smooth fox terriers for over 20 years, smallish gene pool and breed standard hasn't changed for about 200 years. (pic related, our current smoothie Kissie) Perfectly healthy, no congenital defects, no more of a genetic freak than any other pedigree domesticated dog.
(also in before 'ur a dog snob', we've kept rescue crossbreeds too :p)

>>295927
Agreed.. and it's the breeds that get "popular" that suffer the most a lot of the time, because retard breeders breed from any dog with a pedigree without actually vetting them for defects.
>> Anonymous
That seems to be an UK breeder problem. I know that in several other European countries the Kennel Clubs demand health screenings on common hereditary diseases.
Unfortunately that doesn't mean that the dogs are overall healtier. The backyard breeders make pretty well up for it and produce enough crippled dogs.
>> Anonymous
Generally, breeds that have undergone extensive selection for appearance have more wacky health problems than those that have not. Working dogs, for example, usually don't have difficulties (with the very notable exception of merle-merle Australian Shepherds, which is avoidable) that are breed particular because they have been selected for intelligence, obedience, and longevity. I have a Catahoula Leopard Dog, and she is the healthiest animal I have ever seen. Like an Olympian, this dog. Even when she got roundworm as a puppy she didn't show any symptoms, unlike most dogs who get stomach upset at the very least. She just started barking at her shit one day because it was moving, so we shipped her off for worming. Anyways, tl;dr working dogs are healthy, toy dogs are not.
>> Anonymous
>>295947
> tl;dr working dogs are healthy, toy dogs are not

Scratch the "toy", because small companian dogs live much longer than avaerage dogs. However, fashionable, popular breeds and breeds with exaggerated beauty features (very short legs, very short nose, very massive build, very small body, very...) are the ones that usually have health problems and die early.