• Drusas@fedia.io
      9·
      3 months ago

      Like these ones being bred by an irresponsible backyard breeder? Yes.

      This is why you need to research your breeder–good ones put a lot of time and money into avoiding inbreeding. They do things like cooperate with each other to ‘borrow’ male dogs from one another or even going so far as to buy sperm from abroad and have the female artificially inseminated. They also keep careful records of lineage to help avoid accidental inbreeding.

      But if you get a purebred from some random person or rescue, then yeah, it’s likely been inbred and not had the various health and genetic screenings that you would get from a good breeder.

      Edit: For personal anecdote, I should share that the breeder I am going through for my next purebred puppy thought she had one for me with this litter, but he started developing health problems around 8 weeks old, so she decided she is not willing to sell / adopt him out until and unless he doesn’t have any serious health problems. She’s clearly very attached to him and it sounds like she wants to keep him regardless. She has already spent thousands of dollars trying to figure out what’s wrong with him, including expensive genetic testing.

      And this is why the good breeders charge exorbitant amounts for their dogs.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        3 months ago

        Even with all that, there are a disturbing amount of breeds that are genetically garbage now due to decades of bad breeding.

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          1·
          3 months ago

          Oh yes, I agree completely. The encouragement of breeding of any brachycephalic traits should be treated as animal abuse. There are other examples, but that’s such a big one.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      They can be, respectable breeders will usually do it outside of their dog’s own gene pool (mating them with another owner’s dog that has the same desired qualities), but there are definitely breeders that keep it within the gene pool in order to maximize the desired genes being expressed.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 months ago

      Yep. My mom’s Chinese Crested is the result of a mating between son and mother, so she got it for free. Amazingly, she’s a very pretty and very sweet dog with no health problems to speak of.

      I’m against the whole purbred dog thing, but at least my mom gave one a good home.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    3 months ago

    Pure blood is how we are breaking the animal sick care system.

    At first I was confused if they were raising their dogs to be vampires or white supremacists.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
    10·
    3 months ago

    Not sure if this is still going on, but human antivax sperm and eggs were being marketed (almost certainly illegally) on facebook and ebay.

    Because the covid vaccine was going to fuck up your entire genetic code, apparently, and you really need pure, unvaccinated donor material for a healthy baby…

  • pigslop@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Aw man I have to deal with jerks letting their dogs roam around the town almost getting flattened by cars and jumping on people and now this is a thing too???

  • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    3 months ago

    I can’t wrap my head around these kinds of people.

    Vaxxed themselves by and large, but happy to abandon everyone in their ‘care’ to the vagaries of pathogenic luck.

    I hate these people.

    But also love your work ;)