Anons really be like, "Hi! You own/have owned/are passionate about x breed where the breed standard is [controversial behavior/aesthetic] so are clearly at least somewhat neutral or open to [controversial behavior/aesthetic]. Can you please elaborate on that so I can pick apart your response in the worst faith imaginable take to establish you as Bad Person™? Thanks! 🥰"
It's like when I get people asking what my opinion is of prong collars. There's photos of my doberman in a prong collar all over my blog what do you think my opinion of them is 💀
Anyway after being told that even just owning a cropped/docked dog, not even having signed off on the surgery I just had one that was done prior to me even knowing he existed, was as bad as the fucking Holocaust, by a German person living in Germany, I stopped taking anyone's incredibly stupidly bad takes seriously. Leave people with their already-cropped/docked dogs alone if you hate it so much. You're not going to change anyone's mind by screaming abuse and starting drama, you're just going to make them block you.
Look I have my own pretty strong opinions on cropping and docking, and I think most people seriously misuse prong collars as a replacement for adequate training (it's a tool with a specific use! not something that you use instead of a typical collar!), but as a Jew who lives in Germany, fuck that person very much.
Like, the fact that you owned a cropped and docked animal is not... Hell, I'm very against the practice myself, but what are we supposed to do when the alterations have already been performed? Cropped and docked dogs already exist, and even if the practice was stopped, globally, tomorrow, they would still be around for a while. Was this person legitimately arguing that it'd be more ethical to euthanize them than to make sure they had homes?? I don't know, I'd think mass euthanization isn't really helpful to the argument when one uses a Holocaust comparison but maybe that's just me.
I've got similar shit in the past for wanting to one day adopt old pugs when I'm financially stable. Specifically ones so ill that their owners don't feel capable of looking after them any more but still have some time before quality of life is poor enough that it would be better to put them down. I just want to give them a good end to their lives since they have such terrible genetics. The cripple in me is just very sympathetic to what they go through. Id never be going to breeders or getting young ones.
But apparently even wanting to help a sick animal is supportive of unethical breeding practices. Never mind the fact I also support retro pugs and if I were to ever go to a breeder, I would never get a pug that fits the current standard. But thats not good enough. Opposing unethical breeding apparently means you should also want to kill every sick dog on sight.