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Thanks, Paya :) I wish people hadn't taken this documentary so literally. There were studies and tests done, and mutts are not immune to the same issues that affect purebred dogs.

" It is a well known fact that purebred's have chances of having more issues than "mutts"."<br /> <br /> An untrue generalization of purebred dogs. I own three border collies. One was a semi-rescue (long story) who was bred from showdog lines. He has been on medication for arthritis since he was 6 (he is now 13), and has moderate skin and coat reactions to certain foods. However, my other two dogs are from ABCA working lines and are fit, healthy, and possessed of zero congenital or other problems. This is how a working dog is supposed to be. In their case, being purebred helps predict their temperament and working behavior, leaving little room for any aberrations in those characteristics that crossing them with another breed of dissimilar temperament and working behavior might cause. A sound working line, cultivated by a conscientious breeder, produces dogs that are every bit as healthy as curs, and in many ways more predictable and easily trained.

Oh I know Al. :( That's one of the reasons I always support adopting over buying from a dog-breeder.<br /> <br />

Oh f.uck, I had a book FULL of disorders common to certain breeds.. I wish I could find it. It was a veterinary book. You wouldn't believe how many breeds of dogs are plagued by disorders and diseases, it's very depressing.

I have to disagree with you Auclipse. ALL purebred's are inbred no matter what anyone has said. It is a well known fact that purebred's have chances of having more issues than "mutts". <br /> I, in fact, adopted a purebred boxer from death in a shelter. He has seizures and bad hips. Unfortunately these are common problems in purebred boxers. He wasn't considered "show-bred" but he was still of modern distorted purebred lines.<br /> Now on the other hand I also adopted a German Shepherd-Boxer mix. He might not have been the most intelligent, however he was a beautiful dog with no issues what so ever. <br /> <br /> These issues are VERY common and NOT a minority. It is so flippin scary having to hold an 80lbs dog foaming at the mouth watching his body tense and move so violently.<br /> <br /> German shepherds are known to have hip and spinal issues.<br /> Boxers, hip and hearing issues. Sometimes blindness.<br /> Dalmatians have blindness and hearing issues as well as aggressiveness.<br /> Mastiffs have hip and back issues.<br /> <br /> These are just purebreds. Showbred dogs are MORE extreme than this. <br /> Working huskeys aren't just every tom $@#!* and harry they find in the backyard, they usually are dogs bred to a fellow working dog owner to create teams, also sometimes they are mixed with wolf genetics. (Or closer related to them than most dogs.)<br /> <br /> I'm all for certain types of breeds, but breeding selfishly just to pass on a "champion" line is wrong. Especially when the breeder has been warned to NEVER breed the stud.<br /> <br /> This movie was just touching and horrifying. I hope that sometime they will realize that the very show they are putting on is killing the competitors.<br /> Thank you Clay.

I understand what you're saying but I have to disagree. Some of the breeds they highlight are the Boxer, the Pug and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. NONE of these can be compared to the Australian Shepherd.<br /> Does the Australian Shepherd have daily breathing difficulties simply because of the way it was born? No! It may have a higher risk of developing diseases down the road, but it won't collapse on a walk down the driveway on a hot day.<br /> <br /> So no, this is not like saying that because some furries f.uck in the suits means that all of them do.<br /> <br /> Plleease tell me what you believe a "real" husky is. I would love to know.<br /> If you link me a picture of a fluffy, puffy, black-and-white, curly-tailed, furry-fandom-obsessed Siberian Husky I'll laugh, turn around and cease to discuss this with you.<br /> <br /> "up to and including companies killing off a few hundred of them to save money"<br /> Hi, I live in Canada. What the world doesn't know is that the man who did this didn't do it maliciously or to save money. The man went around to shelters and humane societies to get them taken but nobody would take them. He went to the vets to see if he could get them put down but the vet refused because they were healthy dogs. These were dogs that were too hyperactive to be able to live safely with a normal family. The man had no money, no money or food to feed the dogs so he did what he could in desperate times.<br /> <b>Educate yourself</b>

One thing to note about this video (I've come across it before): it takes only the extreme examples. They are a minority. Yes, some breeds do have significant issues. Yes, there are many breeders who don't take health and/or temperament into as much account as they should. Is the video an accurate portrayal of the industry?<br /> <br /> No. It is like pointing at people who dress up as animals to have sex in the desert and saying that all furries, or even worse, all role-players, do that. It is untrue.<br /> <br /> For reference, my breed is the Australian Shepherd. They have their issues. Some breeders perpetuate some or all of these. There are backyard breeders. There are good show breeders and bad show breeders. There are also good working breeders and bad working breeders. I don't show at the moment and I'm not actively breeding, but I'm not completely out of the loop. Please, take anything that shows only one aspect of anything with a serious lump of salt. It's not the whole picture. It's very far from it.<br /> <br /> Oh, and those working huskies? Most of them are just whatever dogs the owner happens to be able to scrounge up and shove into an x-back. They usually have extreme temperament issues and are not real huskies (or malamutes, for that matter) anymore; they are simply northern dogs. Additionally, there is a very high abuse and neglect rate among such dogs, up to and including companies killing off a few hundred of them to save money. There's a wide range to everything, people.

Agreed.<br /> <br /> That dog looks a lot more beautiful than the flat nosed one.<br /> <br /> And I think you just got me extremely interested in the American Staffordshire Terrier. I've always loved pitbulls but the Stafforshire Terrier is...wow.<br /> <br /> Now, is the pitbull the working dog? OR is the show dog version?<br /> Because for all the other examples, the working dog is on the bottom and the show dog is on top. But it seems like the Staffordshire is the working version of the pit bull

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That long-face Pug looks 500x better than the short faced