You've Got To Laugh Haven't You?
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Point 1. Those big heads, narrow hips and squashed noses were bred ON PURPOSE (can you tell how I feel about that!!!)
Point 2 You don't have to be prepared to pay out for all the routine stuff because you JUST DON'T DO IT (can you tell how I feel about that??)
I have a weimaraner, she comes from good stock, bred by a lady who used to both show and work her dogs. At their best they are un extreme, intelligent, sensible, fun loving and physically sound; badly bred and raised, they have hip problems, are at risk of torsion and can be neurotic dangerous nightmares. I pity any dog breed that becomes "popular"!!
Yes, some of the questions posed on here worry me too!
The problems that I describe weren't caused by people being neglectful, they were done deliberately which to my mind makes it worse, much worse. They took generations to breed these defects into their dogs, they are not careless, its plain cruelty
People who breed quite often do know about the maintenance stuff, they just decide not to do it, again way worse than ignorance.
I guess what I want to say is yes there is ignorance out there, but what is worse is the people who know this stuff and still don't do it. And that's not careless, its criminal
I think just to clarify the points here,
Orange-gnome you are right that there are many irresponsible breeders who (for example), don't check the hip scores on German Shepherds or who ignore the possible problems just to make a quick few bob. Unfortunately, there will always be people who are prepared to flout all the rules and who are happy to make money out of animals' suffering.
Woofgang's point, I believe, is even more serious. The Kennel Club has encouraged the breeding of what normal people would think of as defects - the low-slung hips of the GSD, the squashed nose and consequent breathing problems of the bulldog being prime examples. The fact that these morons also think that amputating a dog's tail (though of course they prefer to refer to it as 'docking', it doesn't sound as drastic) should tell you everything you need to know. What makes people think they it's ok to cut bits of an animal off to make them look they way they think they should?
The same thing happens with cats - if you look at Persians from 50 years ago they don't have the ridiculously short noses and squashed in faces that they do now, along with breathing problems and eye infections.
Sorry to rant, it just makes my blood boil!