It is one of the greater oddities in society now that a larger group of people, seem entirely not bothered about just outright deliberate abuse towards 'man's best friend'
-wait, you thought you were going to read 'children' or 'the elderly' perhaps. But no, dogs have always been at least a partial help to society with police dogs and dogs that work with the blind or disabled. And they get rewarded with cruelty on a silver platter of different levels. This is a matter that has been in dire need of addressing for a while now.
Granted, I am not about to preach that dogs are perfect by any means, otherwise you wouldn't frequently here about children being attacked and killed by dogs in the news papers. But on the flip side of that no one ever explains to the parents of the child at the time why it was so likely to have happened, just imagine it now. A mother and father are watching the paramedics drive away with their now stone cold dead 7 year old girl because a German shepherd has ripped her throat out. And the dog expert on hand says something along the lines of ''the dog was provoked. If you had just told your child that running towards a dog head on with her harms in the air is actually threatening to a dog she wouldn't have come across as a threat.'' Need I say more? This is of course completely exaggerated and of course anything that kills a child deserves to die, the only thing I’m trying to say is that if we had to get licenses for dogs in the UK like most other countries have to, we wouldn’t have careless owners and it would never happen anyway.
Fact is, any owner of a dog that has attacked a child is entirely to blame for it and although it goes against all dog psychology and will be hard in the early stages to introduce. If all owners simply socialised their dogs early in there upbringing, we would have no issue. I compelled to mention at this point that dogs are not the only reason that children die needlessly; they are just the most unacceptable due to being the most controllable with someone who knows what they’re doing. Freak accidents, horrible diseases and sometimes even there own parents, but you don't hear anyone saying ''I hate all parents, they don't deserve to exist'' because you know that's unrealistic. Believe it or not I do have a point to make. That being, that the main cause of abuse, and possibly the worst one is still rife through out the show dog world because it is right out in the open being justified by so called 'experts'. This is the breeding of 'pedigree' dogs. What this is effectively, is inbreeding the same breed of dog, so it's 'purer' in the eyes of judges and a certain kind of buyer that does it purely for social status. And if you think this is bad so far, there is more.
RSPCA Chief Vet Mark Evans called the Crufts show "a parade of mutants" and "a freakish, garish beauty pageant that has frankly nothing to do with health and welfare." He pointed out that breed standards take no account of temperament and fitness for purpose.
One of my most hated examples of this is present in more than one different breed. Two major ones are German Shephards and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, which according to these so called 'breed experts' have to have certain appearance traits in order to classify as the pedigree version of the animal. First flaw that this entire concept has is that in the Rhodesian Ridgebacks the 'Ridge' that makes them so famous and desirable to some quite twisted people, is actually only so prominent because of very unethical breeding (or rather inbreeding). Meaning these dogs are prime candidates for Hip dysplasia and Dermoid sinus, along with a breed specific form of deafness and hypothyroidism, symptoms of this include weight gain and hair loss. Both things that only became a problem because of inbreeding and the effect it has, The German Shepard is also prone to both of these conditions along with a few others due to it's apparently 'pure' breeding. Meaning that frequent mother to son, father to daughter and brother to sister mating happens. The worst thing about this is that it's all completely deliberate and it's done to get a product, the product itself being the litter that is born. Because of twisted people manipulating the breed to what apparently looks more aesthetically pleasing, with absolutely no regard for the dogs well being and health. For the 'show' quality German Shepard dog, their back legs should be shorter than their front resulting in their walking being impaired because of the huge slant in their spine. Is this helpful? Is this beneficial? And more importantly is this ethically correct? Quite frankly, no. It needs to end. And the amount of breeds that get affected by this is far vast than I can even hope to advertise, but the list never ends. British bull dogs now with breathing problems, boxers that have epilepsy. Dogs are being bread to be born with genetic disorders and all manner of health problems, because they otherwise don't meet so called 'breeding standards'.
Worse still, people can and will try to justify it with stories of children being killed. Fact is not all dogs do this and what these breeders are getting away with is cold hearted and unnecessary cruelty to animals for what is basically the owners and show judges personal gain. It is unethical and cruel and people are still getting away with it, for no other reasoning then that people are making money, if you ask yourself nothing else, ask this. Would you think it was acceptable for people? No animals are not by any means equal to humans, but if someone is willing to be so cruel to anything innocent living thing, I do not believe I can convey how I feel towards them in writing.
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