• @[email protected]
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    622 months ago

    What is it with people wanting to buy ridiculous looking pets that have health to problems to the point of suffering? These things, pugs, bull dogs, it’s honestly so cruel…

    • @bcgm3
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      152 months ago

      In a word, materialism.

      • @[email protected]
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        212 months ago

        there are probably mad scientists and crazy breeders out there right

        It’s worse… there’s “social media influencers”.

      • Flax
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        32 months ago

        I know this is about cats, but if Satan had a dog, it’ll be an XL bully

          • Echo Dot
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            42 months ago

            No other organism has such a vast size to aggression misalignment.

            There are less aggressive bears.

    • JackbyDev
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      22 months ago

      I don’t even get why people buy pets. The shelter has plenty who need a good home and will love you the same.

      • @Dashi
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        2 months ago

        Because the last dog I rescued cost me $7k in vet bills and needed to be put down a month and a half later due to health issues anyway. We had him just long enough to get attached. Then i spent all night with him puking up more blood then i thought he could have in him.

        If I buy a puppy from a breeder I know it’s genetics and can make sure it doesn’t have pre existing conditions from abuse.

        Miss you Fen…

  • @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    They should get the breeders for animal cruelty and trading standards: “XL Bully cats” implies large, aggressive cats that could eat small children, not pitiful crippled cats doomed to a life of suffering.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      “XL Bully cats” implies large, aggressive cats that could eat small children,

      They already exist. I think they are called tyjres or something similar.

    • @Womble
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      52 months ago

      People are being urged not to buy the feline equivalent of XL bully dogs, which have been created by breeders in the US.

      • @[email protected]
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        Maybe they originated in the US, but I don’t recall reading about an XL Bully mauling someone in Europe, other than numerous reports from England. The fact that this type of cat is becoming popular, just because it resembles their hideous canine cousins, is pretty telling.

  • @[email protected]
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    -12 months ago

    It’s funny how we can talk til the cows come home about regulating animal breeds and breeding out genetic defects but only for animals. Humans, being never part of the animal kingdom, are right off the table. Just the way Jesus made us