h3lblad3 t1_jealp2r wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:56 PM

Images like this always make me wish that we'd have successfully bred smaller, thinner pigs. They could be such fun little dog competitors.

g00fyg00ber741 t1_jecxh46 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:28 AM

Inbreeding a ton of different kinds of dogs with so many different genetic health defects wasn’t enough? You wanted us to do it to pigs too? Sorry, humans were too busy breeding them to slaughter, not to compete against dogs (at what??)

h3lblad3 t1_jecyhk4 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:36 AM

>not to compete against dogs (at what??)

At the same thing that cats, gerbils, and parrots compete with dogs for.

g00fyg00ber741 t1_jecys6r wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:38 AM

Huh? Idk what kind of animal competitions you’re talking about but that sounds so exploitative

h3lblad3 t1_jed0eyc wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:52 AM

House pets. I’m talking about pets you keep in your house.

SirCustardCream t1_jedq14i wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:32 AM

They are aware. They are trying to get you to understand that animals are individuals and not just things for us to manipulate to suit our desires.

Edit: I'm not saying this to judge or make you feel called out by the way.

g00fyg00ber741 t1_jeex5y3 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:51 PM

The only pets that really make sense to me are rescuing animals since they don’t have a habitat that is safe or natural for them, thanks to humans. Tons of animals become rescued after animal testing or get rescued from farms before slaughter or after serial exploitation. Dogs and cats have intensely huge populations outdoors and live longer lives without reproducing when humans spay and neuter them and keep them from roaming. Meanwhile tons are continuing to be bred with health defects cause humans think it’s cute and funny and a literal money-making scheme.

So as I’m opposed to breeding pigs and gerbils and dogs and cats and parrots as different shapes and sizes to compete in little competitions for some simpleminded human satisfaction like you suggest, I think it makes more sense to rescue animals and work to stop all the ways we breed them for profit without regard for their lives or quality of life or health as a whole, outside of their entertainment value to us humans.