Hidden World of Designer Dog Breeding

[bunnygeek]

Utterly heartbreaking documentary on BBC Wales last night, if you didn't see it you can watch it here on iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0012lhn/bbc-wales-investigates-the-hidden-world-of-designer-dog-breeding

It mainly focuses on the rise of cropped ears :( illegal here since 2006 but so many dogs with it done :( so many for sale on freelistings with cropped ears too.

It's about time somebody caught up with the pocket/micro bully greeders.

For a lot of those poor dogs, having their ears cropped is the least of their worries. Twisted, deformed spines and an inability to breathe comes with the territory, too. Some can barely walk or hold their own chests off the ground.

And all these merle French Bulldogs appearing again; the KC banned them being shown a while back (2013 rings a bell) because of the health problems associated with merle markings. They're sold as 'rare' and are therefore desirable and expensive. Then people will breed merle to merle and that's a whole disaster area.

The poor little white "micro bully" that was rescued by Hope Rescue :( has spinal deformities and could barely walk but the "breeder" had him pegged as a stud dog due to his size and muscles. URGH.

Fuckwits will just keep on buying them, is the problem. People just don't give a shit, they just want the dog they saw in a shitty magazine or on insta

Have a halfwit neighbour who have just got a Doberman with cropped tail and ears, where on earth did he get that?? so annoying and immoral

Dobes often come in from Serbia or Russia. Actually really nice dogs, it's such a shame they crop them.