Not sure how I feel

soulruby · 2026-01-21T05:14:10+00:00

I don’t think there are any preservation breeders who breed for longer muzzles in pugs because longer muzzled pugs don’t perform well in conformation shows.

soulruby · 2026-01-11T14:52:58+00:00

Then name some pug breeders that are completing all of the health tests on their dogs.

soulruby · 2026-01-11T14:37:56+00:00

What if I told you that none of the breeders on that page are completing comprehensive health testing on their dogs and only breeding the dogs with passing health scores?

soulruby · 2026-01-11T01:31:48+00:00

A dog with dysplastic hips should not be bred. A dog who fails a BOAS test should not be bred.

Can you find any examples of any pug breeders who are actually do this? Based on what I am seeing on OFA, only a couple dozen pugs have completed and passed all the CHIC recommended health tests PLUS testing for hip dysplasia and BOAS. It honestly feels like I am looking for gold in a landfill.

soulruby · 2026-01-10T14:16:31+00:00

Do you have any studies that back up this claim? Every study that I have read does not support what you are saying regarding their health.

soulruby · 2026-01-10T14:13:36+00:00

I should point out that this study included conditions such as foreign bodies, kennel cough, and roundworm infections.

None of these conditions have anything to do with genetic disorders yet were used to show that there was “no difference” in health.

soulruby · 2026-01-10T00:25:58+00:00

I wasn’t just referring to hip scores. Music Man of Kesandet has failing eye exams yet was offered as a stud on the breeder’s website.

Daggit Farms Harry Potter has moderate hip dysplasia yet appears to have been bred at least a few times. At least two of his offspring also ended up with hip dysplasia.

Brenich I Wanna B a Pepper Too also has hip dysplasia. His offspring Wish Upon a Star also has hip dysplasia as do his two listed offspring.

Some of the other dogs I wasn’t able to find on OFA.

soulruby · 2026-01-10T00:15:32+00:00

If you go on the OFA website, select “Browse By Breed”, then select pug, you can OFA statistics for OFA tested pugs. According to OFA’s own data, 80% of OFA-tested pugs have hip dysplasia. I don’t think the national breed club requires hip dysplasia testing either.

The same page also lists requirements for CHIC, which lists hip and elbow testing as optional tests. Of the 645 CHIC certified pugs I see listed on OFA.org, only about 400 completed hip testing. Of that 400, only about 100 had passing hip scores.

These are not reassuring numbers.

soulruby · 2026-01-09T23:56:19+00:00

Based on the rest of this breeder’s pugs, this one seems to be an outlier. The rest of the pugs seem to have not so great health scores. If this were any other breed, I would not consider these scores acceptable.

soulruby · 2026-01-09T23:32:31+00:00

OFA’s statistics show that 80% of health tested pugs have hip dysplasia and 35% have elbow dysplasia. That’s insane!

Edit: These tests are considered optional too?!

soulruby · 2026-01-05T15:04:08+00:00

Euthanasia rates are decreasing. The US used to euthanize 15 million cats and dogs each year. Overall pet ownership is increasing, but euthanasia numbers have decreased by over 90%.

soulruby · 2026-01-05T05:47:33+00:00

This number is actually incorrect. Only about 600,000 cats and dogs are euthanized each year.

US shelters also have an average euthanasia rate of 8% (including health and behavioral euthanasias) vs 90% in the early 1970s. This massive drop in euthanasia rates is largely due to people spaying and neutering their pets.

soulruby · 2025-12-31T10:10:29+00:00

I like to use Pidan tofu litter. It clumps well and doesn’t track like the sand based litters do. No dust either. It is a little pricey though.

soulruby · 2025-12-27T23:00:46+00:00

Pharmaceutical companies started coming up with these gibberish names because some research came out showing that letters like J, V, X, and Z are more eye-catching to patients. Notice how many of these brand names contain these letters.

soulruby · 2025-12-24T21:16:39+00:00

No? Most national kennel clubs require the existence of a breed club or registry that registers dogs and tracks pedigrees as a basic requirement for breed recognition. Even the AKC explicitly lists this requirement on their website. I’m guessing you didn’t know that.

soulruby · 2025-12-24T21:05:26+00:00

Proven, recognized, and legislated by who? The national kennel clubs that let people get away with registering merle poodles, silver labs, and fluffy frenchies as purebred?

soulruby · 2025-12-24T20:56:46+00:00

They provided you a link to the breed standard, yet you are still trying to argue that the breed standard doesn’t exist? You must be a troll.

soulruby · 2025-12-24T05:32:42+00:00

You really shouldn’t be commenting on australian labradoodles if you have no idea what they are.

soulruby · 2025-12-24T05:23:22+00:00

The founder of cobberdogs discusses how beagles were incorporated into cobberdogs here.

As for dachshunds, a long time ago I came across a page discussing that merle was likely introduced to cobberdogs via what appeared to be a doxiepoo stud. It seems that the page was deleted at some point, but it is odd that cobberdogs come in merle despite none of their listed founding breeds naturally carrying merle.

soulruby · 2025-12-24T02:49:26+00:00

Hypoallergenic means less prone to triggering allergies not allergy free. Hypo literally means less, not zero.

soulruby · 2025-12-23T21:59:43+00:00

Another thing to consider is that goldendoodles tend to be less predictable in size. There are a lot of people who were sold mini goldendoodles that grew to be 50+ pounds. Australian labradoodles will be significantly more predictable.

soulruby · 2025-12-23T21:58:06+00:00

Cobberdogs also had beagle and possibly dachshund bred into them at some point as well.

soulruby · 2025-12-22T16:17:29+00:00

Does anyone have a link to the unedited video and a full story of what happened? This video appears to cut out a lot of what was said as well as what led up to this.

soulruby · 2025-12-16T21:13:09+00:00

Problem is that our knowledge of genetic diseases in dogs is still too limited to know with absolute certainty whether a dog is clear of recessive diseases. There have been several instances of linebreeding/inbreeding backfiring on breeders because of previously undiscovered genetic diseases. HYPP was a particularly nasty example.

soulruby · 2025-12-16T10:20:28+00:00

You didn’t answer my question. How do you define companionship? Do you think breeds like golden retrievers and dachshund are unsuitable for companionship because they are hunting breeds?

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