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What hills are you dying on? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even if it's a rescue? Maybe breeding pugs (without trying to reverse the damage done to them) is pretty shitty, but I could see rescuing one is fine. I mean, what's the other option, killing them all?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fair, but it still fuels the market. Somebody rescues one. Somebody else sees it and wants one but can’t find a rescue or doesn’t want a rescue, and goes to a breeder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that if someone wanted a pug, seeing one person who did a rescue wouldn't be the tipping point.

And there are people who are trying, through breeding, to reverse the damage done to these poor animals.

So yeah, I think there are ethical ways to own a pug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dog breeds go through trends just like anybody else. Your fav valuable has a pug? You might want a pug. Maybe not you, but that’s how trends work. The aristocracy tells you what to like. That’s the whole reason they exist in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And there's a trend to un fuck up pugs through breeding now, but you think that's unethical as well because that's still owning a pug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I know about retro pugs. I’m only against owning snub-nosed pugs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Simple. They should only be legal to own if they're fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That’s a good compromise, but the dogs all have to undergo surgery. The breed needs to go somehow.