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You know what makes more money for vet practices than vaccinations? Parvovirus, distemper or leptospirosis treatment. Or the euthanasia that sometimes follows.

You know what makes more money for vet practices than prescription diets? Malnutrition or pancreatitis. Or exploratory laparotomy surgery to remove raw bones that have perforated or impacted the intestines. Or bacterial infections causing massive gastroenteritis.

You know what makes more money for vet practices than annual health checks? Chemotherapy, tumours that need extensive surgery to remove, chronic conditions that have gone unnoticed and therefore need intensive hospitalisation to stabilise.

You know what makes more money for vet practices than neutering? Pyometra emergency surgery and stabilisation, or mammary strips to remove mammary carcinomas.

We don’t want your pets to get ill, otherwise we’d offer you nothing and rake it in later at yours and the animal’s expense.

Shockingly, vets/nurses/care assistants do actually go into the veterinary profession because we care about animals and their wellbeing.

How many times do we have to go over this?

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Your dog / cat cannot be vegan and healthy. This is scientific fact. Your opinion and choice to ignore fact is actively spreading misinformation and hurting pets.

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Obesity in pets

There are a lot of things I have issues with as a prevet student, mainly obesity in pets. So many people think it’s so cute that their cat/dog/rabbit or whatnot is “chubby” or “chonky”. In reality all they are doing is actively shortening their animals life and putting that animal at extreme risk of increased arthritis and/or organ disease. It’s become such a problem IMO due to the ever increasing popularity of “ body positivity”. When I say this I don’t mean people loving their bodies, everyone should love their body. What I mean is when this phrase is taken to mean, “ it’s okay that I am over weight, there’s nothing wrong with me this isn’t unhealthy”. I recently saw a post on some form of social media in which a severely overweight person was condoning their weight and even saying that it was healthy. Being over weight is not and will not ever be healthy. It is this mentality that is beginning to leak into pet ownership. “ My pet is fat because I love them” “ I feed them treats all the time because they like it” “ It’s okay that my pet is fat! It’s cute!” No. No it’s not. I don’t know if this is a largely Americanised issuse due to America being one of the most overweight populations in the world or if it is world wide. I just really needed to get all of this off my chest.

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Hello lovely Tumblr folk! It’s that time again- I have a giveaway for you all. As current followers know, we are opening up a physical shop in addition to having our online shop! This giveaway is to thank you all so much for supporting us and helping us get this far! We definitely need all the help and support we can get right now, so hopefully this attracts some new customers as well 💞💞💞

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Jackpot

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hope your pets stay healthy in 2017

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Never forget that when i told a family friends wife that their Boston Terrier was decently moderate for its breed, with an actual muzzle, but would need care as his teeth are still squashed so they need to keep an eye on keeping them clean and to make sure nothing bad was happening, she answered nonchalantly, “Oh yeah, he already had an operation to remove some of the tighter teeth to prevent that. Its pretty normal for the breed.”

The dog was 8-10 months old and already had undergone major surgery and tooth removal and this was “normal”

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Aries - WTF #Zodiac #Signs Daily #Horoscope plus #Astrology !

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what were the purpose of those super tiny arms? I can't imagine they were any good for hunting or fighting so what's the point of micro arms?

That’s a good question! Carnotaurus and other abelisaurs have ridiculously tiny arms:

Those two bones that look like the wrist? That’s the entire forearm.

There’s some indication that they may have been especially flexible, which could point to them being used in some sort of display or other intraspecific behaviour. It’s also quite possible that they just…didn’t really serve any function. They could just be vestigial - that is, an evolutionary “leftover” that just hasn’t had the pressure to evolve away (like kiwi wings, or whale hips).

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Can we leave all the “psychiatric medication is bad, evil and unnecessary” discourse in 2017 where it belongs and fucking accept that the brain is an organ that can get sick and need treatment just like any other part of the body?

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The internet’s pillars of wholesomeness have a new member. Steve Irwin (Love nature), Bob Ross (Love yourself), Mr. Rogers (Love others), Stefan Karl Stefansson (Love life), and now Stan Lee (Love imagination)

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Everything below is posted with liberty and credit to Jemima Harrison and the PDE blog, with the sole purpose for this information to spread as far as possible.

Time to get tough

It is… • soon to be 10 years since Pedigree Dogs Exposed • five years since The Advisory Council on the Welfare Issues of Dog Breeding highlighted the issues linked to head conformation in brachycephalic breeds • 18 months since the publication of research (funded by the kennel club) spelling out the link between stenosis (pinched nostrils) and respiratory issues, especially in French Bulldogs • a year since a veterinary petition demanding urgent reform for flat-faced dogs • almost a year since the Kennel Club set up the Brachcycephalic Breeds Working Group in response to that petition .. and of course I have highlighted the issue of pinched nostrils endlessly here on this blog. Endlessly.

And yet… the picture at the top is one the Kennel Club has used as the ideal depiction of the French Bulldog in its new edition (2017) of its Illustrated Breed Standards. And it isn’t a one-off. Here’s the one the KC has used for the Boston Terrier standard.

The Bulldog.

And the Pug.

Dogs are as near-as-damn-it obligate nose breathers. And even if they can supplement by mouth-breathing when they are awake, they are unable to do so when they are asleep, meaning thousands of these dogs live lives of interrupted sleep as they have to wake up in order to not asphyxiate. Study after study has shown that these dogs pay the price for not being able to pull in a decent lungful of air and that starts with the nostrils. These pictures are all the proof you need that the Kennel Club is not taking this issue seriously; that at its very core the KC is paying nothing more than lip-service to the demands for reform by the veterinary profession and animal welfare campaigners. At one of the first meetings of the Brachycephalic Breeds Working Group, then KC Chairman Steve Dean expressly said that he didn’t want “changing the breed standards” to be at the top of everyone’s list of actions that could be taken. And indeed, it hasn’t been. There have been some new measures.  The KC continues to fund brachy research. There is also now a brachy learning resource available on the KC website, the promise of better education of judges and a breed club commitment to educate better about the importance of keeping brachycephalics slim. There are also now health schemes for the Bulldog, French Bulldog and the Pug which do test for respiratory issues. All this is welcome. But, bottom line, the Kennel Club continues to bat for the breeders who do not want the basic phenotype to change because it’s the breeders that pay their wages. Of course the simplest, quickest remedy is to give these dogs back some muzzle - to help not just with breathing issues, but to help protect their eyes from trauma and to give their teeth some room in their overcrowded mouths (a Pug here compared to an Australian Shepherd).

The problem is that breeders are wedded to flat faces, particularly in Pugs and Bulldogs. They talk about the perfect “layback” - which essentially means that the nose should not interrupt the line between the forehead and tip of the dog’s chin. In fact, there’s a new book out on the Pug head (yours for only $159) which reminds everyone that the word Pug comes from the latin for “fist” and that this is the shape the Pug’s head should be in profile - i.e. totally flat.

Here’s a reminder from a top UK show breeder of what the Bulldog’s head should look like.

As you can see, a  protruding nose or a less severe underbite is considered a fault.

There was a big review of breed standards following Pedigree Dogs Exposed but it was mostly to add vague qualifiers such as, in the Pug standard,  "relatively" short rather than just short when describing the length of the muzzle. This gives the breeders way too much wiggle room.  We need proper metrics - a defined minimum skull/head/muzzle ratio and we need to find more profound ways to change their minds about what constitutes their breed in their eyes.

Large open nostrils are a requirement in brachy breed standards, but this is widely ignored because other points of the breed are considered more important. There would be outrage if a Frenchie with one lop ear or a Bulldog with a liver-coloured nose won in the show-ring, but dogs with slits for nostrils continue to be made up to champions.

Meanwhile, on my CRUFFA group, whenever you post a picture of more moderate examples of the breed, current of historical, the breeders heap scorn. A few days ago, one breeder insisted that the dog featured in this famous painting of a Pug by Carl Reichert, dating from the late 19th century, was a crossbreed.

Same for these ones. Mongrels, the lot of them.

She admitted that the eye-white showing was undesirable but preferred the look of this Crufts dog.

Today, this was posted on a public Facebook page by one French Bulldog breeder in response to a plea by vets for more moderate dogs.

(My bolding below)

To those who say you cannot rebuild Rome in a day I say… rubbish. There are already more moderate versions of these breeds out there being bred by breeders more interested in health than the current fashion. 

For more than 10 years, I have called for moderation and hoped it would come from the breeders. But  I now know it won’t. If we want anything more than a wee bit of tweaking round the edges, then we need to demand it.

It is time to get tough. These dogs suffer - not all of them all the time but too many of them too often. 

Brachycephalics live a third less long than non-brachy dogs. Fifty per cent have significant airway disease. Almost all struggle to cool themselves. Most Bulldogs still can’t mate or give birth naturally. Pugs have 19 times the risk of developing corneal ulcers.  All suffer from very low genetic diversity. And so on.

Today, Bulldogs, French Bulldogs and Pugs make up one in five of the dogs registered with the Kennel Club - up from one in 50 in 2005.

Yesterday, a new petition was launched asking for a ban on brachycephalics.  Over 20k people signed it in the first 24 hrs.

Have we reached a tipping point?  With your help.

I haven’t been able to blog much recently because I am busy finishing off a television series for BBC2. But I have taken time out to write this because the new breed standard pictures made me so angry.

So please… Although it’s moderation I want, not a ban, sign the petition. Make your feelings known to the Kennel Club (see here). Complain if brands or media use generic pictures of brachycephalics to sell their wares.

Vets: thank you so much for all that you are now doing, but please keep the pressure on.

And, of course, to everyone out there - please don’t buy that puppy.

It is not safe to buy a Pug, Bulldog or French Bulldog. Not safe for them and not safe for your wallet.