There are kitten mills like puppy mills, usually smaller scale because cats aren’t as hardy as dogs. Anywhere that advertises kittens always available is pretty suspect.

English Bulldogs, at least, rarely come from puppy mills. They require too much care and too many surgeries to survive a puppy mill environment. (That’s why crosses like puggles showed up).

I’ve also heard that bullies are “boat payments” - due to the frequency of their health issues. Though that was also applied to pugs and cocker spaniels.

I’m aware. Some breeds, particularly those with less genetic diversity, suffer more than others in terms of early losses. I think Bulldogs might be unfairly targeted because their health issues are more often physically obvious (loss of pups, trouble breathing).

Defining purebreds is one of the first things humans did after developing a written language. The Brits were no where near first, they just wrote the history books.

There might be a difference in statistical outcome if you include pup deaths. A lot of live pups lost to split palate, pneumonia, and that freaky water-bloat thing. Low genetic diversity does stuff like that.

There are breeds that managed to open their gene pools and maintain their identity. Basenji are famous for being saved that way. Last I checked the Dalmatian folks were still fighting over the pointer cross that fixed a liver disease.

Greyhounds still look pretty exactly like what’s on the pyramids. Some breeds, like Japanese chin, have arguably changed for the better, leaving behind the extreme dwarfism.

Not just births - Bulldogs also require artificial insemination. Those narrow inflexible hips don’t line up.

The existence of a animal, even one that thrives in urban environments, is not really sufficient reason to kill it. Sure they are opportunistic, highly intelligent, and amaxingly adaptable. In addition to small mammals and aquatic life, they also eat lots of insects - like cockroaches. Raccoons are also excellent…

A group of raccoons is a gaze or a nursery. I understand that being chased by a nursery of raccoons is rather less impactful.

I think it’s because, in the US at least, math is taught in the most boring and unintelligible way possible. All memorization, deeply formalized, and nothing about what all that memorization prepares you for.

I thought honor killings were basically hate crimes committed by family members.

He seemed pretty positive about Sadam Hussain. Oh, he’s totally a fan of Vladimir Putin.

The only reassuring bit is that Trump doesn’t seem to like Pence. That’s almost its own recommendation.

I think it’s kind of impressive actually. She’s distilled a complex argument about medical ethics and copyright law into a single statement: this feels wrong, think about it. It doesn’t really matter if the technology exists yet, or even if she actually goes through with it. The statement is already made.

There’s some deeply patriarchal shit behind ‘you have devalued her honor so now you must provide for her’. Like the diet version of making rape victims marry their attackers.

Blood (blood meal) does make a good additive for plants - lots of iron, and may scare away deer and rabbits. $5 at the nursery for a bag seems way the hell easier than sitting naked under your blue hydrangea for a few days every month.

Vegetable broth is a thing, mostly defined by the complete lack of meat, bones, or other animal products.

Charging a premium to crime victims for evidence collection, and then ignoring that collected evidence, seems like something that dirty cops in a mob movie would do.