Pure blood has always been the best path to health. That's why the Habsburgs are a superhuman ruling class.
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Either this person has never had to deal with parvo, or they have and don't give a shit about their dogs.
Or they're just lying b because no reputable groomer, kennel, or vet would see them without at least rabies, parvo, and kennel cough vaccines.
These people need to be arrested and their dogs put in rescue homes. This is just basic animal cruelty.
These people need to be arrested and [...] put in rescue homes.
Aren't purebreds like known for being incestuous?
Yep. My mom's Chinese Crested is the result of a mating between son and mother, so she got it for free. Amazingly, she's a very pretty and very sweet dog with no health problems to speak of.
I'm against the whole purbred dog thing, but at least my mom gave one a good home.
Like these ones being bred by an irresponsible backyard breeder? Yes.
This is why you need to research your breeder--good ones put a lot of time and money into avoiding inbreeding. They do things like cooperate with each other to 'borrow' male dogs from one another or even going so far as to buy sperm from abroad and have the female artificially inseminated. They also keep careful records of lineage to help avoid accidental inbreeding.
But if you get a purebred from some random person or rescue, then yeah, it's likely been inbred and not had the various health and genetic screenings that you would get from a good breeder.
Edit: For personal anecdote, I should share that the breeder I am going through for my next purebred puppy thought she had one for me with this litter, but he started developing health problems around 8 weeks old, so she decided she is not willing to sell / adopt him out until and unless he doesn't have any serious health problems. She's clearly very attached to him and it sounds like she wants to keep him regardless. She has already spent thousands of dollars trying to figure out what's wrong with him, including expensive genetic testing.
And this is why the good breeders charge exorbitant amounts for their dogs.
Even with all that, there are a disturbing amount of breeds that are genetically garbage now due to decades of bad breeding.
Oh yes, I agree completely. The encouragement of breeding of any brachycephalic traits should be treated as animal abuse. There are other examples, but that's such a big one.