Amazing to see how far breeds have changed from what they use to be… Sad to see the state of which Pedigree/Show Dogs have been degraded to.. I wonder what the scene looks like in the US\Canada.. Do we have our own “Kennel Club” etc..

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Inbreeding can strengthen a strain how? Killing off the healthiest animals strengthens a strain how? How strange.

Absolutely disgusting. I don’t know which is the worst, the Idiots who buy these dogs & perpetuate this cruelty to the animals or those who spend £10,million a week on vets fees when there are Human beings dying in the world because of poverty & a lack of clean drinking water. As it said in the doc, it’s just eugenics & no different to what the Nazi’s were trying to do, only to animals instead of Humans. This practice should be made illegal, it is just wide scale animal abuse. The chairman of the British vets association only agrees with it because of all the money that he is making out of it. All true animal lovers should boycott any company that sponsors these disgusting dog shows, that openly promote animal abuse.

This totally opened my eyes…I knew there were overbreeding problems, but I never stopped to consider the key role played the Kennel Club’s (and its equivalents in other countries) strict breed standards. Very well made documentary that discusses the history as well as the current issues. There is definitely some personal emotion dragged in to the narration and the interview style, though, and while I realize it is an emotional issue, I always feel that documentaries are best when they allow the footage to speak for itself. That’s why I’m not a big fan of Michael Moore-esque attack-mode films. I do recommend this, though.

I’m reminded of an argument I had with a breeder of shelties. She was making a case for line breeding, claiming that a consistent physical type cannot be produced without it and that genetic disorders can be avoided with proper testing. While she explained this, her dozen or so carbon copy show dogs (one a deaf double merle), all surgically de-barked, spun like lunatics, jumping up and down and rasping in their kennels. While I made a heated case for the necessity of genetic variability for health and temperament, my little outcrossed, backyard bred, unregistered Badger, also a sheltie, stood calmly at my side, off leash, watching the goings on patiently. The dichotomy could not have been clearer to me. And to her. She had a lot to say about his conformation faults.

horrible suffering of inbred pedigree abominations, another good example of humans fucking nature up for greed and some retarded book of rules and regulations.