Confession Of The Day

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Pugs, like most domestic dogs have evolved to look and sound as they do today because humans bred them like that. They can’t help snuffling because their airways are constricted and they can’t breathe properly. The humans who bred them are either ignorant of the suffering they cause or they don’t care. 

Perhaps the owner should have kept the dog under control so that it couldn’t make untoward advances, but kicking and harming a defenceless, innocent animal was wrong. The RSPCA states, “Animal cruelty is where a person is deliberately causing an animal to suffer, for example by physically harming them”.

I was upset when I first read your post.

I'm not a fan of pugs, French Bulldogs and other yappy little dogs, but I wouldn't kick one unless it went for me of Fearn. Those squashed faced dogs often freak out other dogs because to another dog the heavy breathing and wheezing sounds aggressive

I'm not a fan of pugs, French Bulldogs and other yappy little dogs, but I wouldn't kick one unless it went for me of Fearn. Those squashed faced dogs often freak out other dogs because to another dog the heavy breathing and wheezing sounds aggressive

I don’t think it’s likely that the Kennel Club will be disbanded as there name has recently been prefixed with ‘Royal’.

I do agree that it isn’t fit in its present state and that something drastic needs to be done. In addition to the issues mentioned, the show dogs don’t have a great life spending long hours travelling the world and being confined to crates or show benches for much of the time. 

I actually think the Kennel Club should be disbanded and a more welfare based organisation take its place, its responsible for so much suffering, not just the scrunched up faces and exagerated eyes and breathing diffucuties, but the inbreeding of arthritis in so many German Shepherds. There are so many dog and cat breeds too that have congenital health problems. Personally I like bigger breeds too, and particularly greyhounds who fortunately have been around long enough to have a large gene pool and aren't as likely to be inbred, although they do have breed characteristics that aren't all about speed, but thieving and lazyness too.

One of my dogs was frightened by a pug recently because of the noise it was making. It is such an unnatural sound for a dog to make that other dogs can’t interpret what it means. They don’t understand that the pug is not deliberately making the noise.

Pugs often have eye problems because their eyes protrude unnaturally beyond their face and can get damaged. A person I know rescued a pug from a puppy farm. The poor thing has had two painful eye injuries so far. Also, many pregnant pugs can have puppies only by caesarean because the pups are unnaturally large. The Kennel Club hasn’t gone far enough with its rules about dog breeding. Some improvements have been made over the years but too many pedigree dogs continue to be bred with features that make their lives less healthy and happy. 

I prefer bigger dogs that don’t have exaggerated features.