Breeding for perfection, Ending with disaster.

[growing_rose]

Okay, so back in April, someone posted a bunch of the pictures from the Messybeast site on cranial and facial deformities in cats. I'm posting about one specific incidence from that site with the details

Comments

[blasphemusfish]

Very interesting and all that but selective breeding performed by people isn't exactly natural :V

please to be posting about something more suitable next timeee?

[saciel]

uhm, we had posts about dove breedings and canary breedings and stuff?
We had LOTS of breeding posts?

[blasphemusfish]

And I remember poo-pooing those as well.

That was before moderated posting too, I'm sorting the "what gets approved and what doesn't" thing out right now. Please bear with me D:

[growing_rose]

I still want to offer to redo the tags at some point.

[jamesalesto]

I remember reading in some text book in the vet med library that this can be induced in goats by a certain plant.

[growing_rose]

Vegetable lamb!

[meyrevived]

You really aught to put a warning on that link for horrid pictures. This is a WTF community, yes, but a warning wouldn't hurt anyone.

Other than that, it's great to see anti-insane-breeding posts, people have no idea how much they screw things up when they insist on a certain body shape or fur color.

[blasphemusfish]

"cranial defects" should have clued you in XD

[zendagi]

Uhm, did you read the text? Pretty sure it accurately describes most of the pictures you'll see...unless you were like "♥ KITTIES!!!1" and didn't read the article.

As the photos show, the upper part of the muzzle and roof of mouth are duplicated and the area above the muzzle is incomplete. There is only one lower jaw and tongue. The ears and eyes are malformed. The skull doesn't close completely, leaving a protruding area of brain covered only with skin and not protected by bone. It is necessary to humanely destroy any kittens that don't die at birth.

[meyrevived]

There's a big difference, to some people, between seeing and reading. That aught to be taken into consideration, still.

breeding for perfection

[squid_ink]

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[meyrevived]

LOL indeed, all monarchy are degraded, in-bred idiots (they are, really, at least the Europian monarchy network...) let's storm their palaces and bring the power back to the people! XD

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[prismarat]

And the eyes, omg. So very close together.

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[ihasstopwatch]

There is ..... so much win in this comment. Thank god I put my tea mug down first.

[thornwolf]

Am I the only one reminded of the Aquabats song "The Cat With Two Heads"?

[namfle]

Not to mention TwoHeadedCat.com

-elf-

[growing_rose]

Having never heard of the band let alone the song before ...