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But it will be BETTER FOR THE DOGS, if they are bred for health and happiness as companion animals, rather than race performance. A species or a breed can't su
by pg_1234 5y ago
But it will be BETTER FOR THE DOGS, if they are bred for health and happiness as companion animals, rather than race performance.
A species or a breed can't suffer, only the individual animals.
- Icathian 5y agoThe issue you usually run into is that the alternative isn't breeding for health or happiness, it's breeding for some arbitrary "standard" of aesthetics. It results in substantially less healthy animals (see: bulldog, German shepherd dog, for examples).
- tomc1985 5y agoThat's great and all, but there are other externalities that GP was referring to. Animal wellbeing doesn't mean a whole lot if all the animals have died out.