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Dalmatians are prone to kidney stones. It means they can’t eat foods that are high in purine. They have the same diet as a human diagnosed with gout.
In the 60s some guy started working to breed that gene out of them and created to versions of Dalmatians. HUA have the gene that causes stones. LUA do not. He did this by mixing in Pointers.
Modern LUA Dalmatians are 99.999% Dalmatian but breeders and the Dalmatian Club of America are still salty about it and refuse to accept it.
TLDR; Dalmatians LUA breed less prone to life threatening conditions, but Kennel Clubs are mad about it.
wtf.
Cartoon dog after running straight into a mountain painted to look like a road vs. the same dog after using a bellows to reinflate themself.
Omq the bby looks so much happier and healthier! Happy and functional snout is far more cute ♡
This sounds good, but is still dumb, somewhat less incestuous inbreeding.
What’s with the thick white borders on lemmy lately? What’s the use of adding these? I know there are people who are too lazy to crop their screenshot but in this case someone took the effort of doing the opposite of cropping the image. Why?
OP here. I stole this from Facebook and I am simply too lazy to crop anything rather than just hitting the share button
If you’re on windows shift + windows + s lets you drag a window that’s instantly screenshotted and in your clipboard ready to be pasted. You can rebind this function to the screenshot key too
I think Win11 automatically opens snipping tool with screenshot button now. My laptops all seem to work that way now.
yeah i get being lazy, i was targeting the person who shared this meme but decided to add white borders
I think cropping already low-res jpegs will recompress them again and make them even lower quality
Could always encode as PNG or similar, as those aren’t lossy.
still better than unnecessarily taking up space on your screen
Uncropped? Decropped?
Anticropped?
Bad crop?
Bro we’re gonna starve.
This seasons meme harvest? Too much chaff, bad crop.
Uncropped. Or simply extended.
For love of dog just stop breeding. There are so many unwanted dogs already that need homes.
Mutts are better anyway. I’m biased because the best dogs I’ve known were not pure-bred, but still. They also are more resistant to genetic disorders…
I like to call them Bitsa dogs, like a bit of this dog a bit of that dog and you get a wicked bitsa dog.
I’ll never understand why people even want pugs. They are not cute, they are ugly abominations. Maybe they were cute before people turned them into this.
They used to be very cute and were functional dogs. Altdeutscher mops and retro pugs are good examples. Here’s an 1800s painting of one.
Someone shrunk the head?
In modern pugs? Indeed, they’ve been selectively bred for brachycephaly (flattened muzzles), and poorly so, resulting in many potential health problems.
No, i meant, the whole head is disproportionally small in the picture.
Oooh, I get it. Painting issue? Maybe this one had a disproportionately small skull? My mystery mutt certainly does and he’s not a little dog.
They are fine in “original” fkrm, but current degenerated pugs are not cute or healthy.
People are drawn to vulnerable creatures; they inspire nurturing and protective instincts.
Pug breeders attempt to distill vulnerability to include overly large eyes and an inability to breathe well.
Still sort of grotesque in that there are probably a lot of inbetween generations that suffer. Most ethically sound idea is probably to just euthanize these breeds and end them entirely.
Imagine what people would do if they were allowed to selectively breed humans
The Spanish Habsburgs.
lol
That’s just called eugenics
There are some sci fi stories about this. They are… not pretty.
I will follow the Kwisatz Haderach without hesitation.
Don’t sperm banks offer selective sperm choices based on intelligence and physical fitness?
intelligence? as if being brought up by a parent who believes this shit is gonna make you intelligent
There’s ZERO regulations in that industry, they can say whatever
One of the “most prolific” sperm donors in Britain is a neo-Nazi. His sperm has been used to bring about over 140 births, but he also spends his free time planning “lone wolf” attacks.
People on 4chan were talking about that sort of thing at least 15 years ago. I think it was on /tg/, if I remember. They were also much more concerned with the trolling/ethical thought of breeding for the brain. What if you bred someone who only had the thought of serving a master?
I think that’s enough evidence for me that selective breeding is horribly fucked in its outcome no matter the original aims, and the closest we should come is eliminating the ‘will kill you’ diseases.
What if curing cancer resulted in the creation of a slave cast. Sounds like a pretty good star trek episode
I guess that movie is called Elysium.
At this point I’m wondering if our idiot overlords are using these fantasies as a guide rather than a warning
The amount of times I’ve been blocked on Reddit for pointing out the hypocrisy of humans… Our species really need to be neutered by default, exceptions only for license holders.
We as a species spent so, so long learning the painful lesson that eugenics is an awful idea. Can we please not relitigate it? That is, can we please not shift the Overton window back to the ideology that directly led to and inspired the Holocaust?
That’s the thing. I believe, if handled correctly, progress could be made with eugenics. But I agree, my views are radical and by definition not fit for standard policy or any teaching format.
My definition of non-innocence is someone who has caused physical or emotional harm to another living being with malicious intent, regardless of provocation. Cruelty is the intent to repeat. This is the base for my laws of morality.
Thank you
Lead by example!
Oh sure, having a government body decide who’s fit or not for reproduction. Absolutely nothing that could go wrong with that. /S
True, the design I believe in would only work if people like me would be in control, due to the nature of worldviews being unique to the individual. And the moment hands change over once, is the moment the laws get skewed by the worldview of the next group. I would restrict those who threaten humanity’s progress, who would refuse to educate or vaccinate a child, who would indoctrinate from birth into their gated world. The next person would restrict queerfolk like me. And the next would try to filter humanity into an Aryan race of purebloods.
The theory is there. The practice is improbable. But the lack of practice results in the Chinese, Russian or American governments and their followers. Those who would, and do, filter us out.
Be the change you want to see in the world
What will those clever tall bastards think of next?
I predict hairy sphynx cats
No need to do them next: “Altdeutscher Mops” is a thing already. I guess you’d call them “Old German Pugs” in English?
Retro pugs are already a thing?
Fuck off with this.
German wolf hounds (large dogs, full snouts, etc.) live maybe 8 years total.
My pug dog lived 15 years, died of cancer, and never had trouble breathing during those 15 years.
If you google “name of dog breed you think doesn’t have problems” + health issues, you’ll get a list of the problems that breed is prone to.
This is just more Reddit trash that people love to bitch about and I shouldn’t be surprised to see it here, just disappointed.
I’m not against breed changes to improve health at all but the hurr durr I-just-learned-the-word-brachycephalic-and-now-I’m-gonna-act-like-I-invented-it shit needs to die in a fire.
Let’s make all dogs live longer and healthier lives without shitting on any of them.
Uh what? You do realize that correcting this genetic defect will 100% make these dogs healthier and live longer, right? So you’re upset because…?
Strangely hostile comment.
German wolf hounds (large dogs, full snouts, etc.) live maybe 8 years total.
You’re singling out a single obscure breed of dog for some reason (where I assume you mean “German wirehaired pointing wolfhound”?) and then also making a claim about their life expectancy without presenting any evidence. Not only can I not find something saying eight years, I can’t find any credible information saying anything at all about this specific breed’s lifespan.
My pug dog lived 15 years, died of cancer, and never had trouble breathing during those 15 years.
I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m glad they lived a long time.
- French bulldogs are being discussed here, not pugs. They both suffer from brachycephalic airway syndrome, but French bulldogs are substantially worse (see below).
- Even if your dog were a French bulldog, a single anecdote is not statistically significant data.
- French bulldogs demonstrably have a much shorter life expectancy than most other dog breeds. You can see in the data that pugs aren’t too far behind.
If you google “name of dog breed you think doesn’t have problems” + health issues, you’ll get a list of the problems that breed is prone to.
…Okay? The point is that we know this is a health problem for French bulldogs and pugs; there’s every reason to believe changing their facial anatomy would make things better and seemingly no reason to believe it’d make them worse. This feels like whataboutism.
I’m not against breed changes to improve health at all but the hurr durr I-just-learned-the-word-brachycephalic-and-now-I’m-gonna-act-like-I-invented-it shit needs to die in a fire.
I agree that the modern Internet is too capable of rallying people behind causes they don’t invest the time to understand, but I don’t see anyone underinformed here. We inbred this feature into dogs in the 1900s because it was considered aesthetically desirable. We now recognize this often causes severe medical problems. Changing the facial anatomy should help millions of sentient beings live their lives without said severe medical problems. Becoming aware of a problem and then advocating for a reasonable solution isn’t “acting like [they] invented it”.
Let’s make all dogs live longer and healthier lives without shitting on any of them.
They’re not. The reason French bulldogs were singled out here is because of their exceptionally low lifespans, and I think you’re thinking people who care about this are getting some smug, fart-smelling satisfaction out of this when really they’re just happy to see a glimmer of light in a world that’s falling into darkness.
The breeder is trying to give future dogs of the breed a better, longer, healthier life.
You can search any “dog breed + health issues”, most breeds just dont list difficulty breathing as their health issue.
Sorry to hear about your pug. Fuck cancer. I lost my 16-yo pit bull terrier to cancer a few years back.
That said, no need to get up in arms about this post. This is still a good thing. If you don’t like it, downvote and move on.
Dudes bitching about reddit on a 2 month old account saying how lemmy should be. Fuck off with this.
Nobody’s shitting on them though, who are you addressing?
glad it got put out of its misery, just a shame it took that long. poor thing
This is a needlessly cruel and hostile comment.
