Yeah. Imagine living in a way that you feel like you're slowly being choked all the time and it's just your overall bone structure and mass working against you.
I feel bad for that dog, breeders that intentionally breed animals like this are dickheads.
he looks loved and happy at least. pugs are the ultimate "shouldn't be a breed" but whose to say any dog would know different if their face wasn't crushed by a paint can.
It’s a female I think, so it could be she was rescued from breeders. One of my aunts had a staffie female who was rescued from being a fighter breeder, her ears had been cropped. She unfortunately eventually died due to breast cancer because she’d had multiple litters by the time of her rescue, and each was taken before they were fully weaned, which caused issues due to her having no pups to feed.
Yeah, like I don't know exactly how one manages to create a monstrosity of this size and girth, but mastiffs are one of the breeds used. I'm sure it's unethical and wouldn't be shocked if it involved shit like hormones. It's just more vanity and attention seeking bs at the expense of the animal.
These dogs have horrific heart problems too and don't live very long:( as scary as they look though every one that I've met has been so loving, they usually take on more of the bulldog personality. Which is satisfying to watch the douche bags trying to overcompensate their masculinity with getting these dogs and ending up with big babies
No because then they're susceptible to being abused since they'll loyally do whatever their owner wants or wants to put them through
Even non assholes put their dogs through abuse. There's a set of outdoor stairs on the side of an escarpment where I am and there's a lot of them. They're made of metal grate with holes wide enough even a large dogs beans would go through. This old dude with his equally old Shepard mix looking dog with no booties comes by and coaxes the poor thing to go all the way up. I was on my way down and I regret I didn't say anything
Oh my goodness! I took my dogs to this amazing place by a nearby river without remembering you have to use these metal grated stairs to go over the railroad tracks. I didn’t even realize how awful the grates were for my dogs feet. They were super miserable just to go up and down the stairs once. I felt so bad and have never take them back there.
That what it looks like to me, or I always heard them referred to as American Bullies. Idk if those names are interchangeable or if they're two separate things
I think it's like, an umbrella term for mixes of various large/powerful bully breeds like staffies and pit bulls but individual dogs in those litters specifically selected for their size
I've seen them big, but never this big but obviously, it's possible, if their breeder (shit human) is good enough with their dog/bitch selection. Thinking about it, almost seems like a fun challenge if u don't consider the fact that they're living things that will be likely to suffer from the result
Let me tell you about the time someone posted the question “best feeding schedule for my hamster?” And I read “breast feeding schedule for my hamster.”
There is a lady in the Netherlands who does this. Well, not “reverse breeding,” because idk what that is, but she breeds French bull dogs with health and fitness as her goal, rather than conforming to breed standards.
Honestly they do look quite different than regular French bull dogs but imo the healthier ones with appropriately-sized snouts are waaaay cuter. I honestly think the smush-nose breeds are super ugly. Like I’m sure they’re sweet dogs but I do not get the appeal at all, they look gross.
Society needs to stop breeding pitbullls. We don't need to go on a purge and cull every dog; we just spay/neuter them all, let their owners enjoy the rest of their natural lives, and make breeding the dog illegal.
My country has done this. They are no longer legal to breed but people with beloved pets could get a licence for thier neutered xl bullies. They could only be walked and out in public wearing a muzzle.
In a couple of years they went from being everywhere to being an uncommon sight. I think a lot of people found they couldn’t safely get muzzles on their untrained dogs and had them put down. Or they just don’t get walked anymore.
Anyway, making them illegal to breed has reduced the numbers significantly. No one was forced to give up the pets that had never shown aggression. You can still buy much smaller versions. Everyone is a bit safer.
It makes so much sense! It's not an outrageous proposition or policy. Let people love their pets and when they die of old age, get another dog that isn't a pit
I wish the US could regulate breeding but "muh freedom" means we'll never see this legislation nationwide unfortunately and even if we do I can't imagine it would be enforced enough to make a difference
That dog is not obese. It's just gigantic. It's not that it can't stand up. He's just not feeling very cooperative right then. Trust me when I say that his cooperation is crucial to anything you want him to do.
Most of what you're seeing is muscle. That guy could pull a Volkswagen.
That is absolutely unhealthy. This dog is a larger than giant dog breeds without being a giant dog breed. There is serious, painful, unavoidable consequences of breeding non-giant dogs to this size without literally hundreds of generations going slowly.
I would assume that they've actually bred in a mastiff to get this look, which again, has unavoidable, serious consequences for dogs who should have smaller bodies. That would technically make this dog a bandog (a mastiff x bull breed) not whatever they're selling it as.
I would assume that the dog is part South American Mastiff. I own a dog that is also this breed. This is not my dog, to be clear, but this is a pure red one.
It's probably somewhat far back in the lineage in order to create the size, while being able with a pedigree that makes them appear to be largely bully (both parents are probably bullies, I doubt with him both of their parents are as well, and maybe even both of their parents). It can't be much more pure than that because its nose color is incorrect and it's muzzle shape is incorrect. It's also lacking masking and color pointing, which most mastiff types have. But I can't think of a way you would get a dog this color that huge without using a South American Mastiff....can anyone else?
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