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What has gone wrong with the way we keep our pets

8/12/2020

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When we have a heat wave, my thoughts go to those dogs bred with flat faces. There will be dogs that die in this weather, due to the anatomical disaster humans have bred them into. An article in The Guardian by Esther Woolfson asks what has gone wrong with the way we keep our pets, Love you to death: how we hurt the animals we cherish
"I stand at the traffic lights waiting to cross. A young man beside me holds a lead – at the end of it is a puppy standing patiently between us. In the moments before the crossing signal, I listen to the dog breathe. The sound is old and bronchitic, a dissonant issuing from this neat little body, the laboured wheezing of a young dog’s breath. The man is fashionably dressed, and the dog most probably loved and precious. I’m not sure if the dog is a French bulldog or a pug, but he’s one of those that now form a widespread, snuffling, breathless band of canine respiratory distress. The lights change, and man and dog walk off, the dog carrying his possibly malign genetic destiny, his future skin-fold pyoderma, the corneal ulceration that may affect his protruding eyes, the upper airway obstruction that is probably already causing him to wheeze. It’s not the first time I’ve wondered – what made this man and others seek out and pay for creatures who may live shortened, suffering lives?"
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