Yeah, me too…but I’ve made it a point to ignore anything [poster deleted] posts in any thread to do with dogs or children.
Not worth the oxygen to argue with really 
Funny - I only know German Shepherds (or Alsatians, as they’re known here) as working dogs - police dogs, airport sniffer dogs, guard dogs, etc. Any dogs like the OP mentions with serious health problems like hip dysplasia wouldn’t last long.
Since you never get up off your fat ass, seems like you might have seen the thread I was using as reference to joke about.
Get a life, dickhead.
Again, am sorry Stoid, was just horsing around - figured you and thread participants might have seen the ridiculous curlcoat discussion, think my comment amusing. Apparently I was wrong.
Will bow out now, sorry to derail.
As you’ve discovered, it’s prolly not safe to assume that readers of [insert thread here] have also read or particpated in [insert other thread here]. Don’t go getting harsh on **Michael Ellis **because of all that dude. It’s not his job to keep up with all the shit going on here at any given time. Might be nice to say ‘Sorry’?? Just sayin’
But hey, just give it a few minutes and **curlcoat **will turn up to make everything snarky and spicy again the lone cashew. Ya won’t need to wait long…
I posted, explained intention was only a joke and apologized to OP. Then this Ellis guy shows up, two posts and an hour and a half after mine, with insult dripping with bitterness.
But thanks for the suggestion I apologize, you busy-body hall monitoring idiot.
Yeah, the people who buy these dogs are ignorant but surely the people who breed and sell them are something much worse. Breeders must know how messed up the dogs are and what shitty lives they most likely have ahead of them.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha pedal it back.
My family had three as a kid, from different lines. All. Three eventually had to be put down due to rear leg failure. They simply stop being able to walk and drag themselves around. It is heartbreaking to see.
It happens as they get older. Those working dogs are younger, there is nothing to say that they won’t suffer from the condition in later years.
With regards to the documentary, it caused a right stink in the UK, because IIRC it says that the Kennel Club and it’s rules are part of the problem, whilst IIRC equivalent organisations in other countries have at least tried to address the problem.
In response to the documentary there was a huge falling out between the BBC and the Kennel Club, resulting in Crufts not being shown on the BBC for the first time since year dot.
Kind of like what Manwich said, the breeders are creating the dogs, they know what kind of health problems and suffering they will have in their lives.
As well, Stoid seems to be angry that the breed definitions themselves require deformities and ill health, and the goal seems to be breeding in stronger deformities and poorer health in order to win a show.
The morons who show dogs want to win, and breeders breed to meet the market that arises out of show dogs. If a breed definition and consanguinity restrictions are set out so as to avoid health problems, then that is what most breeders will breed for, for those are the dogs that will win and that people will purchase. The question is whether the judging bodies will make the changes voluntarily, or whether big brother will have to impose such changes upon them.
Why would anyone even need a puginese? Pekes are just pugs with long hair. (Yes, not really. But, really, kinda.) People who want “designer” dogs are a menace.
And can we all agree that dog breeders who’ve painted themselves into such a misshapen genetic corner that their dogs can’t breed without medical intervention, have fundamentally failed at life and deserve to be fed to warthogs?
Actually, it’s not unscrupulous breeders, that’s the point. Watch the video…it’s the top-of-the-line breeders, the show freaks, the kennel club people who are deciding that German Shepherds are more “correct” if they are crippled, etc.
Precisely!
I thought the ridge on a Rhodesian Ridgeback was simply the hair growing in the opposite direction from the rest of the coat. What does that have to do with the spine?
I haven’t heard of that but I do know that something like 95% of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels have serious heart problems, and although it’s a small breed, they mostly live about 10 years. I am personally not interested in any brachycephalic breed as a pet, dog or cat.
Dog shows in general are creepy. They come across like a slave market sometimes, with some severe 60-something woman checking the dog’s teeth and gripping their testicles. The film “Best in Show” covered some of the creepiness.
Why do you hate those who do it in the UK more than those who do it elsewhere?
You’re correct. They can have spinal problems, but it has nothing to do with the “ridge” and I’ve never heard of them being particularily associated with spinal problems.
Hip Dysplasia, sinus issues, and deafness are all far more common than anything invovling the spine for that breed.
Ah, crap. I’d say “well-played,” but I didn’t read most of that dog trainwreck thread. Go jump in a lake your own damned self (my lakes are all frozen over). 
I have been doing some research on the breed, being interested in getting myself a service dog, and not wanting a puppy mill dog … as near as i have been able to find out, the reverse hairs on the ridge are actually input from the african wild dog component, and has nothing to do with spinal health, it is just a cowlick, in human terms.
I am screening breeds to make sure that I have a good healthy dog that doesn’t have the usual inbred problems. If only I could have my wolf hybrid back as a puppy again =(