Everyday Racism, and I'm the only one who notices...

[Vicious88]

Perhapes it can be considered breedism, but I feel that when you go to buy a dog at a pet shop, they should all cost the same, because essicinailly, they are the same. A dog will never be able to talk, breathe underwater, or connect to the internet via wifi (though there is a mod using LAN, or so I'm told), so all of that considered, a dog will only ever serve limited purposes:

Eating, crapping, growling, barking, sleeping, and whatever you decide to train it to do.

So we're looking at less than 10 "skills" no matter what dog you choose, and honestly and truely, the training depends on you, not the breed of dog. Yet some dogs are worth more than others. Thats not just a term of belittlement to the 'lesser' dogs either - there are actually dogs that cost hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to buy - while as I can look in the paper and find "Mutts free to good home."

I would understand someone paying $1300 for a teacup poodle if each dog were instictively bread to be the world's tiniest ninja - but its just like any other dog. Less than 10 skills. And really, you're only paying for a gimped dog. A larger dog can be trained to get your morning paper. A teacup poodle will have to fetch it one page at a time. Do you want to deal with that? I don't.

Some people defend this as saying that those expensive dogs are a pure-blood line. That just simply isn't true, because if it was - they'd be wolves. Now I might understand if we were talking about buying the offspring of an undefeated greyhound racing dog, but only if you were going to race it - then its an investment...

But for strange little women to claim that their poodle should be worth more than any other dog is wrong. Its not just poodles, its all the little next-to-useless dogs. If you'll notice it's these same dogs that end up in vets offices because their breed is prone to health problems.

You know what I think the problem is?
Its these women who buy these dogs not for pets, but for the sake of an accessory. Like having an expensive dog peeking out of her purse makes her cute. No, I feel that anyone who treats an animal like an object deserves to be bitten by that animal. At least twice. Buying an animal for looks is just wrong, and often times you end up with a pet that just plain sucks.

Think for a second what would happen if we treated people this way... Lets suppose you ran a landsaping business and your customer needed 4 of your workers for a project. Now lets suppose you had to explain to your customer that your more attractive workers have to be contracted for twice as much as the 'ugly' ones. Or, since what we're dealing with is breed, try and convince a customer that they should pay your white workers twice as much as they would pay the black ones. That's crap, and you'd be reported to the Better Business Bureau.

I don't see how we can acknowledge that pets have feelings, and people can go to jail for beating them, yet its somehow okay to sell the 'prettier' ones for more... Thats a little akward if you ask me.
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[Vicious88]

Perhapes it can be considered breedism, but I feel that when you go to buy a dog at a pet shop, they should all cost the same, because essicinailly, they are the same. A dog will never be able to talk, breathe underwater, or connect to the internet via wifi (though there is a mod using LAN, or so I'm told), so all of that considered, a dog will only ever serve limited purposes:

Eating, crapping, growling, barking, sleeping, and whatever you decide to train it to do.

So we're looking at less than 10 "skills" no matter what dog you choose, and honestly and truely, the training depends on you, not the breed of dog. Yet some dogs are worth more than others. Thats not just a term of belittlement to the 'lesser' dogs either - there are actually dogs that cost hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to buy - while as I can look in the paper and find "Mutts free to good home."

I would understand someone paying $1300 for a teacup poodle if each dog were instictively bread to be the world's tiniest ninja - but its just like any other dog. Less than 10 skills. And really, you're only paying for a gimped dog. A larger dog can be trained to get your morning paper. A teacup poodle will have to fetch it one page at a time. Do you want to deal with that? I don't.

Some people defend this as saying that those expensive dogs are a pure-blood line. That just simply isn't true, because if it was - they'd be wolves. Now I might understand if we were talking about buying the offspring of an undefeated greyhound racing dog, but only if you were going to race it - then its an investment...

But for strange little women to claim that their poodle should be worth more than any other dog is wrong. Its not just poodles, its all the little next-to-useless dogs. If you'll notice it's these same dogs that end up in vets offices because their breed is prone to health problems.

You know what I think the problem is?
Its these women who buy these dogs not for pets, but for the sake of an accessory. Like having an expensive dog peeking out of her purse makes her cute. No, I feel that anyone who treats an animal like an object deserves to be bitten by that animal. At least twice. Buying an animal for looks is just wrong, and often times you end up with a pet that just plain sucks.

Think for a second what would happen if we treated people this way... Lets suppose you ran a landsaping business and your customer needed 4 of your workers for a project. Now lets suppose you had to explain to your customer that your more attractive workers have to be contracted for twice as much as the 'ugly' ones. Or, since what we're dealing with is breed, try and convince a customer that they should pay your white workers twice as much as they would pay the black ones. That's crap, and you'd be reported to the Better Business Bureau.

I don't see how we can acknowledge that pets have feelings, and people can go to jail for beating them, yet its somehow okay to sell the 'prettier' ones for more... Thats a little akward if you ask me.
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[sweetie79]

I think it is a waste of money to hand over so much for something that is just gonna sit there and do nothing but "look pretty" when you can go down to the pound and get a decent sized dog for 10-15 bucks and price of shots that is capable of protecting your home. I'm sorry, but I think that these women who pay for 'arm candy' need their heads examined. Dogs don't belong in a purse or a bag, they need to be able to get down and run around and have fun. And to think, I am not much of a dog person... lol
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[sweetie79]

I think it is a waste of money to hand over so much for something that is just gonna sit there and do nothing but "look pretty" when you can go down to the pound and get a decent sized dog for 10-15 bucks and price of shots that is capable of protecting your home. I'm sorry, but I think that these women who pay for 'arm candy' need their heads examined. Dogs don't belong in a purse or a bag, they need to be able to get down and run around and have fun. And to think, I am not much of a dog person... lol
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[Vicious88]

Really truely, I'm not either. I'm more into cats (in case the logo and avatar didn't give it away), but its not as big of a problem in cats. Its still a big problem, lol, just not when compared to dogs.

Truth be told, I figure the only reason I preffer cats over dogs is their sense of blamelessness. Cat's don't experience guilt - I like that.
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[Vicious88]

Really truely, I'm not either. I'm more into cats (in case the logo and avatar didn't give it away), but its not as big of a problem in cats. Its still a big problem, lol, just not when compared to dogs.

Truth be told, I figure the only reason I preffer cats over dogs is their sense of blamelessness. Cat's don't experience guilt - I like that.
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[angelbaby453]

I always said that its just wastefull to spend that much money on a pet. buy a dog or kitty from the pound and give the rest you were going to spend to an animal charity if you are that determined. Unless its for some purpose like racing or herding, or whatever it is people pay such high prices for it is just senseless and sad

[Vicious88]

Yeah. The other day I brought up some of these pointers to a clerk-girl at the mall and finished it with saying, "After all its not like every dog here is a direct desendant of some sort of champion show dog."

"Actually, Sir, Yes they are."

I just sort of let it go, but I wanted to say, "Okay... But lets think about that too for a second. If a champion, prize-winning dog, has one puppy and one puppy alone, it should be worth a whole lot more than if he fathered 6 puppies right? Exlusiveness and all that jazz. But these puppies you're selling have like 400 half-brothers and half-sisters, because every minute that 'Champion Show Dog' isn't in the ring, he's forced on top of another dog."

Truth be told, I assure you that ever male "Champion Show Dog" goes on to father enough puppies to fill the local pound. Its all about money, after all. If you could sell your dogs puppies for $500 each, wouldn't you preffer to have a whole bunch of them to sell? This is what brough about "puppy farms."

If you're not familiar with Puppy Farms (sometimes called puppy mills) - they are horrible, horrible places where they force dogs to breed out puppies as often as possible, and in order to keep the bloodline pure while keeping the cost down, they end up imbreeding puppies as well. About 60% of pet shop puppies come from puppy farms. But there's a sadder part to the story - due to imbreeding, a good chunk of the puppies born suffer birth defects and are either left to die or killed. Few "flawed" puppies ever see their way into adoption, while as the "perfect" ones are sent off to pet stores to be sold at rediculously high prices so that they can end up under the tree Christmas morning.
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[Vicious88]

Yeah. The other day I brought up some of these pointers to a clerk-girl at the mall and finished it with saying, "After all its not like every dog here is a direct desendant of some sort of champion show dog."

"Actually, Sir, Yes they are."

I just sort of let it go, but I wanted to say, "Okay... But lets think about that too for a second. If a champion, prize-winning dog, has one puppy and one puppy alone, it should be worth a whole lot more than if he fathered 6 puppies right? Exlusiveness and all that jazz. But these puppies you're selling have like 400 half-brothers and half-sisters, because every minute that 'Champion Show Dog' isn't in the ring, he's forced on top of another dog."

Truth be told, I assure you that ever male "Champion Show Dog" goes on to father enough puppies to fill the local pound. Its all about money, after all. If you could sell your dogs puppies for $500 each, wouldn't you preffer to have a whole bunch of them to sell? This is what brough about "puppy farms."

If you're not familiar with Puppy Farms (sometimes called puppy mills) - they are horrible, horrible places where they force dogs to breed out puppies as often as possible, and in order to keep the bloodline pure while keeping the cost down, they end up imbreeding puppies as well. About 60% of pet shop puppies come from puppy farms. But there's a sadder part to the story - due to imbreeding, a good chunk of the puppies born suffer birth defects and are either left to die or killed. Few "flawed" puppies ever see their way into adoption, while as the "perfect" ones are sent off to pet stores to be sold at rediculously high prices so that they can end up under the tree Christmas morning.
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[Lanfear]

I think it has to do more with "popular demand". or something...-har-
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