The Bizarre Truth About Purebred Dogs (and Why Mutts Are Better) – Adam Ruins Everything
oh my God look at that pug oh I want him
over that shit you know I want him oh
these are best dogs actually those are
the worst dogs Adam please don’t ruin
this for me
sorry I’m going to hi I’m Adam Conover
and not only our so-called purebred dogs
riddled with genetic disease but dog
breeds aren’t even a real thing we made
them up we talked about dog breeds as
though nature created them that way and
as though every mutt were just a mix of
different pure breeds mr. bumps is one
fifth retriever one six poodle one 12
Border Collie and I can’t be sure but I
suspect there’s some Chow in there
because he drills a little but in fact
mutts are dogs and they’re natural
healthy states and pure breeding is a
form of genetic manipulation humans made
up just to amuse ourselves outside of a
few traditional working dogs the 90% of
all dog breeds were created in just the
last 100 years just to be clear I’m not
enjoying learning any of this in 19th
century Victorian England eugenics was
all the rage and competitive dog
breeding became a fad among the wealthy
I made a dog with really loose skin well
I made one with a super flat fucked-up
face wow that is super weird isn’t it
stupid
after these dr. Frankenstein’s had
played God for a while
they declare their weird little monster
a pure breed ha ha ha oh my newest
creation is a cog II and that’s all uh
purebred dog is it’s totally arbitrary
we have a pure breed that that means
like a good healthy dog nope when you
hear purebred you should think inbred
dad damn it Kennel Club’s prohibit
purebred dogs from ever mating outside
their breed and often make them with
their own parents and siblings one study
found that 10,000 pugs have the same
genetic diversity as 50 individuals
making this little guy as inbred as an
Austrian Duke my blood
is very pure all of this inbreeding
means that the average purebred dog is
sicker than well the dog
sixty percent of golden retrievers die
of cancer
a third of King Charles Spaniels have
skulls that are too small for their
brains Great Danes are so huge that
their hearts can’t support their bodies
and well has four little tiny dogs have
you ever seen a little tiny dog that
looked happy they know there’s something
wrong with them and they know that we
did it to them and now we come to the
bulldog
oh he’s soaking you yeah he is if you
find total genetic failure cute a
hundred years ago the Bulldog was a
proud breed but a century of inbreeding
has ruined them their noses are so
squashed they can barely breathe
their heads are so big they can only
give birth by caesarean section their
tails can become ingrown they basically
all have hip dysplasia and their average
life expectancy is six years let’s face
it these dogs shouldn’t even be alive
but all over here won Best in Show yeah
more like best in the Freak Show
the sad part is Kennel Club’s could cure
all the Bulldogs problems if they just
allowed them to crossbreed but they
won’t because then they might not look
like the cute little Bulldogs everyone
loves but our insistence that these dogs
live up to our arbitrary standards is
causing them to get sick and die as much
as you love the Bulldog the fact that it
exists at all is borderline animal abuse
look there’s an easy solution when you
get a dog don’t worry about what breed
it is just go to your local shelter and
get yourself a little puppy mutt
you’ll be happy healthy and 100%
all-natural dog even that puppy join me
next time on Adam ruins everything what
I’ll be talking about how giving people
birthday gifts is a drain on the economy
dude you shut up and play with the puppy
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