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Why Breeding Mutant Cats Should Be Banned


Claire.

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Why the Breeding of Mutant Cats Should Be Banned

 Cats are one of the world’s favorite pets, but in our efforts to breed more attractive felines, we are metaphorically loving them to death.

Like British Bulldogs and extreme styles of pigeons, some cats bred to please a human sense of beauty suffer from serious health problems. This is the case for a particularly lovely cat, the Scottish Fold. It has long been known that breeding Scottish Folds risks health problems, but research is mounting that it is impossible to mitigate this risk. It is time to ban the breeding of this type of cat, as other nations have done.

Read more: Live Science

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That's quite common in the breeding of any animal for the purpose of establishing non survival characteristics and therefore unlikely to be remedied just for house cats.

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1 hour ago, Hammerclaw said:

That's quite common in the breeding of any animal for the purpose of establishing non survival characteristics and therefore unlikely to be remedied just for house cats.

It's sad when it actually affects their longevity or quality of life - 

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With nearly all domesticated animals, those characteristics we breed for make each animal that much further from its wild counterpart and therefore less viable. The upside is because we domesticated animals for our personal use we generally take care of them. Breeding certain characteristics is arguably ethically reprehensible, I agree. However are those characteristics any more or less responsible given they are usually cared for their entire lives?  I don't agree with say breeding munchkin cats as to purposefully breed for a disability is wrong, but as a pet that cat doesn't specifically understand it is different. It isn't depressed because it's legs aren't longer. To think that way means you are anthropomorphizing your own emotions as to how you would feel if you were a short legged cat. If a characteristic interferes with breathing or causes pain then yes I think it should be banned. Humans are a little odd in their past time of animal husbandry, in that most animals were bred for traits that made them more useful, not less so except for pets. While a good majority of dogs were bred to specific tasks that led to breed standards some came about out of sheer fashion that in the end makes for some very much not useful dogs. 

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