#people call chihuahuas freaks but in this regard they're the opposite

[despazito]

I just don't know how logistically you can "purely" preserve a breed that was created to serve a few villages of people and upscale the population to meet the demands of a global market without some flow of new genetic material. it's just not productive to artificially isolate populations to such a degree and that's how you get breeds where 95% of dogs are all carriers of terminal diseases. MANY purebred dog populations are inbred to the degree that many breedings are the equivalent of sibling-sibling matings (25% COI, the threshold of the red line on this graph 👇)

I'm not even anti dog show as a concept I think they're neat and contemplated showing basil as a puppy if we had handler meetups nearby, I just think the organizing bodies need some serious reform and recalibration of their priorities