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this is the saddest thing i’ve read recently :( https://t.co/BstXuau3Bd
@___frye i thought it might be inbreeding but doesn’t seem to be the case https://t.co/FMuYveVOs6
genetics is a factor for cancer all dog breeds are inbred because of AKC rules there’s a straight line there. this isn’t even the worst offender - all the smooshed face (brachycephalic) dogs can’t breathe, and some can’t be born save for C sections. and the Cavalier Spaniel’s skulls is too small for it’s brain.
@BecomingCritter This good boy is 14 and barely slowing down Gotta keep them moving https://t.co/HLN93uJg0x
Quite a few things could be contributing to this. Bad breeding of course, but also diet people used to feed their dogs table scraps, which meant they got way better quality food than kibble or even those dog food meats you can buy. Environmental hazards could also be causing this, giving us all cancer. People get cancer diagnosed earlier and likely make a decision to end a dog's life far before the dog would have ever actually experienced suffering. Something similar has happened in people where the number of years someone has lived with cancer has gone up, more so because it is detected earlier rather than treatment increasing length of time lived (different based on type of cancer.)