Imagine if dogs were engineered for health instead of dysgenic freak traits.
Well you don't have to imagine because border collies exist, but there is room for improvement so that they don't explode with arthritis and cancer by age 10.
>Well you don't have to imagine because border collies exist
Those weren't bred for health, they were bred for function. They're more like living disposable tools rather than family pets.
I have met so many 15+ year old huskies and malamutes in perfect health there is no excuse for that not being the baseline lifespan for large dogs (60+ lbs) and below average for smaller ones like border collies (30lbs). But I'm in the northern US. A ton of huskies/malamutes up here are bred entirely as working dogs and differ more between kennel than AKC breeds differ between each other and almost all of them totally violate the AKC's breed standards.
A herding dog bred purely for health already does exist, the herding equivalent of working huskies. Huntaways and heading dogs. They use them in new zealand and mix in healthy border collie stock among other things. Border collies themselves are shit. They are all highly inbred and suffer from poorly understood genetic disorders and rapid aging. Despite being very large, NZ's herding landraces often live past 15.
please, please do not joke about border collies health. when a BC has to be put down or dies from accidental contact with ivermectin, someone loses a friend, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife.... we should all feel very bad for that surviving dog.
>implying you're body is going to live forever
it's like people that eat healthy allllllll the time.
get some ribs, motherfucker.
for all the shit that pitbulls get, I think mastiffs are probably the closest approximation to a """nanny dog"""
I think those would be newfoundlanders.
Imagine if dogs were engineered for health instead of dysgenic freak traits.
Well you don't have to imagine because border collies exist, but there is room for improvement so that they don't explode with arthritis and cancer by age 10.
You mean the dogs that randomly go deaf and suffer from epilepsy from literally breeding for autism?
>bred for health
>arthritis and cancer by age 10
>Well you don't have to imagine because border collies exist
Those weren't bred for health, they were bred for function. They're more like living disposable tools rather than family pets.
border collies be like "seizures at 5? yeah but i rounded up those sheep way faster than my granddad who is also my dad and brother."
I have met so many 15+ year old huskies and malamutes in perfect health there is no excuse for that not being the baseline lifespan for large dogs (60+ lbs) and below average for smaller ones like border collies (30lbs). But I'm in the northern US. A ton of huskies/malamutes up here are bred entirely as working dogs and differ more between kennel than AKC breeds differ between each other and almost all of them totally violate the AKC's breed standards.
A herding dog bred purely for health already does exist, the herding equivalent of working huskies. Huntaways and heading dogs. They use them in new zealand and mix in healthy border collie stock among other things. Border collies themselves are shit. They are all highly inbred and suffer from poorly understood genetic disorders and rapid aging. Despite being very large, NZ's herding landraces often live past 15.
please, please do not joke about border collies health. when a BC has to be put down or dies from accidental contact with ivermectin, someone loses a friend, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife.... we should all feel very bad for that surviving dog.
But what dogs live most on average?
most of terriers
>border collies (30lbs)
???
>small dog lives longer
People have claimed to have 30 year old chihuahuas (they are also more aggressive bull terriers btfo)
>AmStaff Bull Terrier
Die
yes anon, that is clearly an AmStaff
>Bull Terrier
Gay
in a place as fucking miserable (west norfolk chads know) as gaywood, that dog must have ran purely on spite
>Bull Terrier
Exterminate
>Maximum Bodacious
My sides
Me? I'm a Maximum Bodacious chad
wouldn't he be mentally and physically fucked up at that age?
How come dogs are both smaller and less healthy than wolves? How could this be fixed?
t. doglet
he was hit by a car though
No
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It's funny how everyone on her channel comments on her boobs and she hearts the comments.
Is that the woman that let wolves lick the inside of her mouth?
Mouth?