Beautiful and extravagant - but sick: How our pet breeding disregards animal welfare
Over thousands of years, man has adapted the anatomies, behaviour and nature of dogs and cats to his needs and created an amazing variety of breeds. But now it is apparent that some principles and ideals of this breeding in recent decades led on the wrong path. Because more and more animals suffer from cultivated characteristics and genetic impoverishment. "Breeding successes" not infrequently manifest themselves in painful orthopaedic diseases, agonizing allergies, life-shortening cancers, sad sensory disorders and frightening behavioural impoverishment. The Berlin animal pathologist Prof. Dr. Achim Gruber puts his finger in the wound and states: It is high time to abandon our breed concept and to take responsibility again for what really counts - the health and welfare of our animals.
"Shrill dogs were bred even shriller, naked cats even more naked - extravagance at the expense of the animals." Achim Gruber
