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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most dogs don't require insanely expensive surgeries until they are elderly, and at that point most people opt to put them down, understanding that they've lived a good life.

Unless your dog is a purebred from a sketchy breeder who doesn't health test (or a purebred from a rescue, which assumes sketchy breeder), the odds of something like hip dysplasia or an ACL tear in a pet dog is minimal.  (This is assuming you are keeping them at a healthy weight and doing a reasonable amount of fitness with them).  Most mutts are relatively healthy.[/quote]

Totally disagree with all of that. I think the pound dogs are the least healthy.  Usually they're from puppy mills[/quote]

Right, purebred dogs from a shelter are almost all puppy mill/BYB dogs.  Any halfway decent breeder will take back unwanted dogs and prevent them from going to a shelter.  Mutts though tend to cancel out genetic predisposition to various issues.  E.G. cavaliers are 99% dead by age 10 from heart issues.  Cavalier crosses can realistically be expected to live to be 15 or 16.  Purebred shepherds are notorious for hip dysplasia if it's not screened and selectively bred against with health testing.  Your average "shepherd mix" at the shelter is probably lab/shepherd/pit and will be relatively healthy if kept at an idea weight.  Goldens nearly all get cancer.  A fluffy yellow mixy mutt at least stands a chance of not getting it.

I breed sport dogs. It takes SO MUCH time and money to breed correctly.  I imported semen from abroad to try to increase the genetic diversity in my breed, because my local options all had the same issue I was trying to correct in my female. I have generations of health tests done, I can tell you what my lines carry and don't carry for.  Purebred dogs are a health disaster in many many breeds, because studbooks are closed. The only way to fix these issues is outcrossing, but AKC won't allow it because purebred.

That's in addition to the ridiculous extremes that are winning in the show ring and creating frenchies that can't breathe and shepherds with extremely sloped backs and border collies that would die if they had to actually go out in a field because their coat is so fluffy.[/quote]

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