How Selective Breeding Has Changed Dogs Over a Century

[longknife]

None of these are my favorites but this is an excellent piece showing the difference in time due to breeders – and selective desires of dog shows.

A hundred years later

Many more, along with some narrative @ Photos show how selective breeding has altered dogs | Daily Mail Online

 

[tyroneweaver]

Ya, my SIL has dogs like them. I can't stand em.
They need to be more classy like my dog Molly

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Breeders breed for deformities and recessive genes. The worst thing that can happen to a breed is to become popular. If you don't believe that, look at what has been done to pit bulls, dalmatians, chihuahuas, pugs and so on.

For those who want "pure breeds", what do you think happens to the dogs that are not sold? How about those who are born deformed? And many are.

This little guy is very lucky. Many breeders just put undesirable (meaning, not profitable) puppies in the freezer.

If you buy from a breeder, you are adding to the tragic overpopulation of dogs and cats.

Dog Abandoned Over His Looks Now Has Hundreds Wanting To Adopt Him
Picasso, a pitbull-terrier mix, was born with a facial deformity that makes it look as if his snout is going right while his jaw goes left.

Picasso was a part of a litter of five puppies born last year in Porterville, California, by a backyard breeder.


But the breeder was unable to sell Picasso and Pablo, and they were both taken to the Porterville Animal Shelter.


Both dogs were close to being euthanized before Wilhardt found out about them from Shannon Corbit, a volunteer at the shelter.

 

[longknife]

I strongly believe that the local shelters are the absolutely best places to go to get a pet - cat or dog. I got my little Chihuahua from an individual - or my son did and brought her home to us.

The only dog I ever got from a breeder was when I was 8 and she was a pure bred Dalmatian totally deaf.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"... totally deaf ..."

Thank breeders for that.