Live baiting in Greyhound racing

[Aractus]

[Aractus]

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[robvalue]

I think it's a disgusting concept to begin with, even without live bait. The dogs are just entertainment, and once they are no longer useful they are often discarded. There are rescue centres which have to pick up the slack and try and find homes for these unwanted animals. It makes me sick.

[Chad32]

I keep hearing about medical problems with purebred dogs, because it's more or less inbreeding, and some things we like to breed into dogs are actually bad for them. Though I didn't know they only use specific dog breeds for seeing eye and sniffer dogs. I guess that's why any time they show a sniffer dog on TV, it's always the same breed.

[SteelCurtain]

I keep hearing about medical problems with purebred dogs, because it's more or less inbreeding, and some things we like to breed into dogs are actually bad for them. Though I didn't know they only use specific dog breeds for seeing eye and sniffer dogs. I guess that's why any time they show a sniffer dog on TV, it's always the same breed.

Not really. They generally use German Shepherd Dogs for sniffer dogs, but Belgian Malinois, Labs, Pointers, Bloodhounds (Hounds in general), even Weimaraners are used for sniffer dogs. And any breed can be used for seeing eye dogs. Golden Retrievers are used a lot because of their friendly nature around people.

[Chad32]

Lab are the teddy bears of the big dogs.

[Aractus]

I keep hearing about medical problems with purebred dogs, because it's more or less inbreeding, and some things we like to breed into dogs are actually bad for them.

Well that can happen of course, but when it does breeders would want to know and would usually stop breeding if their pups were showing genetic problems.