Completely agree. We are chihuahua owners because we have realistic expectations of the time and energy we have to spend on them. I hate that big dogs are so tr

Completely agree. We are chihuahua owners because we have realistic expectations of the time and energy we have to spend on them. I hate that big dogs are so trendy in the US because most owners I see aren’t even close to meeting their dogs’ energy needs. No shit your designer husky who was bred to pull sleds in Alaska is tearing up your suburban couch, this is effectively imprisonment for them. Don’t get me started on organizations like the AKC that still promote breeding medical issues into dogs to achieve the proper nose shape or whatever so rich people can have tasteful eugenics as a hobby. It’s all very stupid. I highly implore anyone considering a dog to be honest about what you can support, challenge your assumptions about why you love big dogs, and above all consider adopting over purchasing. I can forgive a lot of the rant above if the alternative was a big dog living in a shelter. That said, we’d have less big dogs in shelters if they weren’t so fetishized by inexperienced owners in the first place.