They’ve been deliberately bred to be lower and lower and lower to the ground in pursuit of a completely artificial “breed standard” that’s got more extreme over time. The same has been done to many of the toy dogs, especially the short nosed breeds, and to the show-line of Alsatians.
It’s unnecessary, it’s cruel, and it shortens and worsens the life of the dogs.
German legislation on differentiated preferences towards subsets of a given species. /s
Actually:
/s ‘coz *brachycephaly is an issue* and hopefully that and similar traits are aimed at. The article didn’t dive deep into the analysis of the bill itself. Nor did explain the functional difference of anatomy between the canonized standard and the original dachshunds used for badger hunt.
Off topic. When i lived for a couple years in Germany ( early 2000) they had some sit com on TV with a hunter and his dachshund. It was pretty funny and good show to learn German.[ Do](https://German.Do) you guys know the name?
ALLES FÜR DEN DACKEL!
Good!
Under threat? I am pretty sure this ban is supposed to reduce the number of threats faced by dogs.
The dachshund that Napolean had, had probably very little to do with today’s dogs. You can see it with other breeds, e.g pugs (or Mops in German).
Depending on how the rules are interpreted this could be a very good change. Dachshunds have changed a lot and for the worse in the last 40-50 years. They used to be shorter, taller, a lot more muscular and with shorter snouts but once they stopped being used for hunting the extremes took over and health problems exploded. Bring them back to the “hunting” standard and you have a healthy dog.
She argued that the kennel club she belongs to has adhered to the same breeding standards since 1888. “For 136 years we have not changed our standard breeding practices.”
If your breeding practices could have been shit for the last 136 years, it does not make them better that they are that old. Its probably more an argument against them, as they have probably not been aligned to newly researched facts.
As long as the new proposed laws allow for healthy breeding of working and family dogs whilst banning the breeding of dogs living in agony, I will support it.
All dogs result from unnatural selection of wolves.
The extension of this law is to ban all dog breeding and only allow wolves as pets
Not my sausage bois 🙁
Finally!
I don’t want to be rude but I have to hold myself back not to say it out loud everytime I see someone with one of these sausage dog, they’re unnatural and ugly af. They’re basically ugly and forced to suffer cause some people like weird dog
Breeding is hell.
This will not happen in Sweden for sure. Dachshunds (taxar) are used for hunting so they don’t have that short legs compared to what we see in US for example.
I used to have a medium size Dachshund. I inherited her from my grandma, who’d gotten her for a breeder famous in the area for his unethical practices.
Anyways, she stood so low to the ground, her chest had open wounds from scratching against the floor. This was resolved when she lost some weight (grandma fed her way too much). As my dog got older, she had chronic back pain, a result of her build, for which she needed painkillers daily.
Dachshunds are basically bred with dwarfism. And seeing all the health issues it causes them, I don’t think that’s okay. Especially when it’s only for aesthetics.
For an intelligent species we really fucked up most dogs with our pedigree contest bullshit, we broke a lot of dog breeds.
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Good. Not a real dog anyway
The article mentions Picasso :
>The painter Pablo Picasso was photographed with his dachshund, Lump, who inspired the artist’s famous line drawing “Le Chien.”
It’s worth noting the difference between [his dog, Lump](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/arts/design/26lump.html), and a modern [Kennel Club Dachshund](https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/search/breeds-a-to-z/breeds/hound/dachshund-miniature-smooth-haired/).
They’ve been deliberately bred to be lower and lower and lower to the ground in pursuit of a completely artificial “breed standard” that’s got more extreme over time. The same has been done to many of the toy dogs, especially the short nosed breeds, and to the show-line of Alsatians.
It’s unnecessary, it’s cruel, and it shortens and worsens the life of the dogs.
German legislation on differentiated preferences towards subsets of a given species. /s
Actually:
/s ‘coz *brachycephaly is an issue* and hopefully that and similar traits are aimed at. The article didn’t dive deep into the analysis of the bill itself. Nor did explain the functional difference of anatomy between the canonized standard and the original dachshunds used for badger hunt.
Off topic. When i lived for a couple years in Germany ( early 2000) they had some sit com on TV with a hunter and his dachshund. It was pretty funny and good show to learn German.[ Do](https://German.Do) you guys know the name?
ALLES FÜR DEN DACKEL!
Good!
Under threat? I am pretty sure this ban is supposed to reduce the number of threats faced by dogs.
The dachshund that Napolean had, had probably very little to do with today’s dogs. You can see it with other breeds, e.g pugs (or Mops in German).
Depending on how the rules are interpreted this could be a very good change. Dachshunds have changed a lot and for the worse in the last 40-50 years. They used to be shorter, taller, a lot more muscular and with shorter snouts but once they stopped being used for hunting the extremes took over and health problems exploded. Bring them back to the “hunting” standard and you have a healthy dog.
She argued that the kennel club she belongs to has adhered to the same breeding standards since 1888. “For 136 years we have not changed our standard breeding practices.”
If your breeding practices could have been shit for the last 136 years, it does not make them better that they are that old. Its probably more an argument against them, as they have probably not been aligned to newly researched facts.
As long as the new proposed laws allow for healthy breeding of working and family dogs whilst banning the breeding of dogs living in agony, I will support it.
All dogs result from unnatural selection of wolves.
The extension of this law is to ban all dog breeding and only allow wolves as pets
Not my sausage bois 🙁
Finally!
I don’t want to be rude but I have to hold myself back not to say it out loud everytime I see someone with one of these sausage dog, they’re unnatural and ugly af. They’re basically ugly and forced to suffer cause some people like weird dog
Breeding is hell.
This will not happen in Sweden for sure. Dachshunds (taxar) are used for hunting so they don’t have that short legs compared to what we see in US for example.
[https://jagareforbundet.se/jakt/hund/jakthundraser/grythundar/tax/](https://jagareforbundet.se/jakt/hund/jakthundraser/grythundar/tax/)
Obligatory: /r/ruinedbreeds
I actually agree.
I used to have a medium size Dachshund. I inherited her from my grandma, who’d gotten her for a breeder famous in the area for his unethical practices.
Anyways, she stood so low to the ground, her chest had open wounds from scratching against the floor. This was resolved when she lost some weight (grandma fed her way too much). As my dog got older, she had chronic back pain, a result of her build, for which she needed painkillers daily.
Dachshunds are basically bred with dwarfism. And seeing all the health issues it causes them, I don’t think that’s okay. Especially when it’s only for aesthetics.
For an intelligent species we really fucked up most dogs with our pedigree contest bullshit, we broke a lot of dog breeds.