People like to claim that folks with the attitude of 'make sure you understand what you're getting into, it's not fair to choose breed based on look if you can't handle the temperament' are gatekeeping elitists that hate newbies and I'm aware yes some of it is that... but some of it is this too. We're seeing perfectly normal, healthy, typical dogs being perscribed sedatives from absurdly young ages and those dogs live on those sedatives for the entire rest of their lives rather than literally any work be put into them.
Again, I understand behavior cases. We have a dog coming into my job today that needed a mighty sedative cocktail just to get him in the door because he's so aggressive. That's not what I'm talking about and if anyone wants to make it about that then they're operating in bad faith. I've made the suggestion to drug the dog before on some of my behavior cases, because it was that or euthanize the dog and the owner understandably isn't ready to euthanize.
I'm talking about the clients of mine who have young, under a year old dogs that they're giving CBD, trazadone, melatonin, gabapentin, and more every single day who magically don't need this cocktail the second someone kicks the owner's ass and gets them to actually walk and train the dog.
They're always working breeds or working breed mixes and it's always sad to see. Why tf did you get a breed that needs intense daily exercise and mental stimulation and training if you weren't even willing to go on a walk more than once a week??? Just because you thought it looked cool? Then you wanted a stuffed animal.