Natural History

Posted in dog breeds, dog health | Tagged dosa, Korean dosa | 17 Comments

17 Responses

1. on March 26, 2014 at 8:00 am ellebo

   It hurts just to look at that poor thing.

   
   
2. on March 26, 2014 at 8:49 am UrbanCollieChick

   “Killlllllllll meeeeeeeee” says the Dosa.

   
   
3. on March 26, 2014 at 8:56 am chervilmeadow

   Can’t be from the north, they’d have eaten it!

   
   
4. on March 26, 2014 at 10:53 am Clayton Reese

   How anyone could think a dog is happy looking like a living scrotal wrinkle, I shall never understand.

   
   
5. on March 26, 2014 at 11:17 am peg4x4

   What exactly is the poor thing supposed to do?

   
   
6. on March 26, 2014 at 12:12 pm casdog1

   How anyone can see this as the epitome of nobility & power is beyond me. This is no mighty warrior mastiff. It’s simply a walking shadow of a canine, shambling weakness & disease.

   
   
7. on March 26, 2014 at 3:40 pm Corgeek

   That dogs looks miserable. “Mighty warrior Mastiff?” I will give it a head start to chase me.

   
   
8. on March 26, 2014 at 7:43 pm Marg

   My first response was ‘the poor thing’

   
   
9. on March 26, 2014 at 9:22 pm souljackal

   Poor dog, I hope this stops someday * shakes head *

   
   
10. on March 27, 2014 at 1:31 am Anton

    OMG that dog just its stance is enough to tell you everything. It looks like its struggling to stand. Like a dog that has been drugged. This is what you get breeding for single traits, like wrinkle. Those ears those ears [rubs eyes in disbelief] where are the ear holes they are not seeing daylight or air that’s for sure. Stinky humid hell holes of misery.

    The whole dog is a flop a complete disaster. I just want to kindly put it out of its misery. No dog like this can live a normal happy life even if you surgically remove most of the skin it’s so badly put together its joints will fall apart in no time.

    Make no mistake they will say it’s a fighting dog extremely active in short bursts, well yes it has drive but its trapped in its body one burst is all it will take for it to fall over flat.

    I wonder how long they manage to live like that? Its enough to make you very angry. It honestly is.

    
    
    • on March 27, 2014 at 1:19 pm harcel

      Yet somehow, it’s an -improvement- over the lean, houndlike dogs of the early 1900s.

      We have a “throwback” English mastiff that looks like the very early show dogs: tight, clean skin around the limbs, more compact in size/conformation, and built more like a gamebred pit bull. He, too, may only be able to do bursts, but he could very easily outrun and outmaneuver any healthy adult human while crossing a large yard. I doubt any dosa could compete there.

      The conformation on that thing is just awful. I seriously wonder how the thing is even able to walk, let alone fight a dog or chase down and attack a human intruder. It is beyond me how any show judge could award an obvious conformational train wreck like that poor dog.

      
      
      • on March 31, 2014 at 10:17 pm Rachel

        There’s some nice throw back dogs out there,too bad they often get the label of being badly bred or back yard bred for not fitting the breed standard and show fads close enough.

        I managed to get a throwback Newfoundland and Rottweiler. I’ve also seen a very nice English mastiff at a dog festival recently,not that friendly but a lean,long legged and powerful dog. Reminded me more of a Tosa than the modern mastiff.

        The Newfie could out run humans and knock them down then he was young,also enough prey drive to chase ducks across a pond. so a giant dog does not have to be sluggish. The best Rotts I’ve also seen where most often throw backs,a dog that can hit a sleeve hard,catch a frisbee and herd some sheep is not exactly bred for very often. A dog does not have to be the best to be good,and just because even a well bred mastiff cannot move as well as a Border collie does not mean they should go the opposite route and just breed for the most impressive appearance. Yet that seems to be the logic of many dog fancier,they have to be the best at something and looks likes to triumph function.

        
        
11. on March 27, 2014 at 7:43 am chervilmeadow

    We should be ashamed at all remaining aspects of permitted animal cruelty in our mainly civilised countries. Historically, however, things do gradually change for the better. One tiny local example of this was when, in 2004, the law in Britain was changed so that people were no longer permitted to set dogs onto deer, hares and foxes etc so that these animals could be literally torn apart. Those activities were in a similar league to cock fighting and dog fighting and no one would seek to justify bringing those back – or wouldn’t they in a world where people still go to cheer watching bulls being tortured to death.

    
    
12. on March 27, 2014 at 2:50 pm pondpawed

    That is a crime!

    
    
13. on March 27, 2014 at 9:52 pm Anton

    Actually pedigree showing blood hounds are not far behind this Korean number.

    
    
14. on March 28, 2014 at 7:04 am Clondaw

    To be fair, last year I witnessed a pack of bloodhounds chasing an athletic young man who had been given the usual start. These working hounds were pretty normal in construction.

    
    
15. on April 5, 2014 at 2:37 am TJ

    Dogs that look deformed are often breeds that don’t have any more working lines and the show line breeders completely took over. Working lines in breeds are healthy and look similar to their ancestors. For example many show line German Shepherds are very different from working line and Czech German Shepherds that I think they should eventually be considered different breeds. If you want to preserve a breed and keep dogs looking like dogs, the working lines have to be preserved.

    
    

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