• @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    Imo the only humane thing to do is put them all down. Same with bulldogs.

    Their entire existence must be suffering.

    • @nul9o9
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      161 year ago

      My mother in law has a bull dog, it’s existence is pain.

      It can’t breathe right, it can barely see because of fat rolls on its head and skin tags on its eyelids, And it smells awful because of said fat rolls being hard to clean and keep dry.

      • @Urbanfox
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        61 year ago

        I took my lab to the vet, and next to us was a bulldog, and it sounded like it lived in agony.

        It’s breathing was incredibly laboured, it could hardly walk and the noises it made just * existing * were awful.

        I overheard her saying he was much better, I dread to think of what worse looked like.

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        1 year ago

        Definitely thought you were going to say Your mother is a bulldog. I had some questions

    • Khalic
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      71 year ago

      How about we start with outlawing the breed, Herr Fur-rer

      • @[email protected]
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        -71 year ago

        It won’t work. In fact, it would likely cause more of them to exist because black market.

        • @Eheran
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          71 year ago

          You can’t exactly hide a dog, unless you keep it in your house all the time.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Dude, most cities don’t have the resources to do anything about actual animal abuse cases. They’re not going to go door to door checking for specific breeds.

    • @vimdiesel
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      -41 year ago

      There are a lot of healthy bully breeds, you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.

    • @ShittyRedditWasBetter
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      -101 year ago

      I never get you folks. The vast majority of the ones I see are pretty happy love running around and typically aren’t bread to be flat enough to cause long term issues. Nothing that would leave me to believe we need to gas all of them because of suffering.

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        91 year ago

        I work at a veterinary clinic. Most pugs that come in sound like they’re having a panic attack just from walking in the front door, their breathing is so bad. It’s abusive to breed dogs to struggle through life.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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          01 year ago

          To be fair, your sampling would be biased to dogs that have more issues, no? Either way, I don’t disagree, people need to stop intentionally breeding unhealthy traits in dogs 🙁

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            We are not an emergency clinic, so most appointments in a day are typically routine. It’s mostly annual exams, vaccines, nail trims, etc. So no, we don’t see mostly problem appointments in a day. My sampling is just more regular exposure to many breeds under normal circumstances.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            No, it wouldn’t. Responsible pet owners get their pets annual physicals, so vet tech see a very large amount of ‘well’ animals.

        • @ShittyRedditWasBetter
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          -51 year ago

          I’ve done several years as a vet tech. The vast majority seem just fine 🤷‍♂️.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Friend of the family has two Pugs whom seem happy and energetic. Very energetic even, I get exhausted watching them lol

        I guess they lucked out on having functional breathing tubes.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          A lot of pugs are now being bred to have “old” traits, so a longer snout and less bulgy eyes like the pugs of 100 years ago.

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          Yea my family has some French bulldogs and same thing, they have always been super healthy and energetic. No breathing problems, either, but they got them from a reputable breeder who breeds for health more than the designer breeders.

          We really don’t need to exterminate those breeds, imo, but we should absolutely be working to undo the genetic damage done from designer breeding. Ethical breeding should be enforced for breeds like pugs and bulldogs.