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We deserve dogs
(lemmy.world)
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...We've committed a multi-thousand year long genocide against dogs, breeding them for traits that we find useful, and usually killing the puppies that don't possess useful traits...
That last part may need a bit of citation, but yes modern breed standardization has unfortunately crippled many of the poor creatures from birth.
Adopt rescues, people! It's usually super cheap and they're almost always healthier dogs anyway.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416518300011
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14696053211055475
I presume you meant to prepend these citations with your own summation, something along the lines of: "It's a spectrum, not a point", etc al?