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09/09/2010 08:38:03 AM · #76 |
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Yeah, just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of dog shows, which I find quasi-disturbing as well. Another planet, and I find it belittling and somewhat twisted to parade animals around in that fashion. I feel the same way about children. It really objectifies them. |
Thought I was alone on this issue. Good to see I'm not alone in thinking animals have rights and one of them is to NOT be paraded as clowns, as these kids are in the photos. |
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09/09/2010 09:09:18 AM · #77 |
Originally posted by Jac:
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Yeah, just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of dog shows, which I find quasi-disturbing as well. Another planet, and I find it belittling and somewhat twisted to parade animals around in that fashion. I feel the same way about children. It really objectifies them. |
Thought I was alone on this issue. Good to see I'm not alone in thinking animals have rights and one of them is to NOT be paraded as clowns, as these kids are in the photos. |
Parading the animals around is only the icing on the cake. What frightens me about most breed shows, be they dog/cat and yes, even horse, are the way those animals are supposed to enforce the human ideal of a breed standard.
*kicking away soapbox* |
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09/09/2010 10:03:50 AM · #78 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
Originally posted by Jac:
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Yeah, just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of dog shows, which I find quasi-disturbing as well. Another planet, and I find it belittling and somewhat twisted to parade animals around in that fashion. I feel the same way about children. It really objectifies them. |
Thought I was alone on this issue. Good to see I'm not alone in thinking animals have rights and one of them is to NOT be paraded as clowns, as these kids are in the photos. |
Parading the animals around is only the icing on the cake. What frightens me about most breed shows, be they dog/cat and yes, even horse, are the way those animals are supposed to enforce the human ideal of a breed standard.
*kicking away soapbox* |
Yeah that too. I sometimes look at a dog and ask myself what it would look like if man hadn't modified the way it looks through selective breeding. All those cute little iterations of what people call dogs (or any other animal) are just what people want, dolls. Disgusting to say the least. Then I see these modified creatures being paraded like circus clowns for all to see and are awarded prizes too. Again, disgusting.
My soapbox is glued to my shoes..... it would seem. lol |
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09/09/2010 10:16:05 AM · #79 |
Yep, not at all to see two completely different versions of the same breed, one strictly for show/line classes and generally a much more rugged version that can actually do something!
I have living proof that a pedigree is by no means proof of quality in a breed. My little cat Lily was once a breeding queen in a cattery. Lily has a sweet wonderful temperament, and perfect colouring for the breed, but she is a conformational disaster. I never saw any of her kittens so don't know if they also inherited her base-narrow, cow-hocked and sickle-hocked legs, but can't help but wonder why they bred her in the first place. Ah well. |
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09/09/2010 10:24:31 AM · #80 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
Yep, not at all to see two completely different versions of the same breed, one strictly for show/line classes and generally a much more rugged version that can actually do something! |
Are you still talking about beauty pageants? |
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09/09/2010 11:08:38 AM · #81 |
And yet look what we do. We parade our photographs in front of the whole world! We dodge them, we burn them, we bump up their contrast, we cut away their excess parts. We treat our photographs worse than our kids and our dogs. Yet you never hear the photographs complaining! :P
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09/09/2010 02:04:09 PM · #82 |
Originally posted by JH:
Originally posted by snaffles:
Yep, not at all to see two completely different versions of the same breed, one strictly for show/line classes and generally a much more rugged version that can actually do something! |
Are you still talking about beauty pageants? |
Yes, the 4-legged version thereof. Guess  Jac and I got this threa a little sidetracked :-)
Message edited by author 2010-09-09 14:09:48. |
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