Pug MRI goes viral (but shows terrible truth)

A pug's MRI goes viral, it looks funny and nice but sadly hides a terrible truth.

"A friend's pug went to the vet," wrote American comedian Andy Richter on Twitter after posting the MRI photo of a carlino, which soon went viral with more than 130.000 likes and many shares.





After the tweet hit social media, Andy posted an update to let everyone know that "the pug has gotten a certificate of good health and has been conquered by fame."

Pug MRI goes viral (but shows terrible truth)

What made the image viral was undoubtedly the funny aspect of the pug seen from an unusual perspective, with huge eyes and a muzzle even more protruding than it normally appears, a characteristic due to brachycephaly, a condition characterized by an anomalous development. of the skull, wider than long.

All nice except that the particularity of this breed is due to the human being who, over time, has transformed it to his liking so that it looks like children, thus thinking of making it more beautiful. Too bad the cute look of the animal isn't good for its health at all, as veterinarian Rory Cowlam pointed out to The Independent:

“Through human selection, we have bred them to look more like a human baby because we find it cute. But unfortunately that cute look isn't very good for the animal. "

And indeed among the many users who commented on the image, in addition to those who found it adorable, there were others who found it terrifying.

Like it or not aesthetically, unfortunately the pug looks like this due to years of selective breeding which has made its breed particularly fragile in terms of health. Like other brachycephalic dogs, for example the bulldog, boxer, bull terrier, pekingese, pug suffer from respiratory problems, eye problems due to excess skin around the eyeballs, tendency to allergies, back problems, epilepsy , gastrointestinal syndromes, neurological pathologies, birth defects.

In short, it is beautiful and refined but at a high price! Is it really worth it?



My friend’s pug went to the vet pic.twitter.com/kP4r5o4ZOQ

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) December 17, 2019

Why not buy a pug

As we said, the particular physiognomy of the pug is due to the human intervention on the genetics of this dog, a dangerous intervention for its health which however continues to be practiced due to the enormous market demand.

Here are all the problems that this breed suffers from, which should convince us to give them up, so as not to feed the increasingly numerous farms:

  • eye discomfort and difficulty closing the eyelids, due to the flattened head and pronounced shape of the eyes;
  • dermatitis and allergies due to fungi that proliferate better in the folds of the skin typical of the pug;
  • breathing difficulties due to the small nostrils, which are always due to the characteristic short and flattened muzzle;
  • musculoskeletal problems due to the small size of the dog, forced by selective breeding;
  • difficulty balancing body temperature due to a flat nose;
  • difficulties at the time of childbirth due to the large and disproportionate head to the body.

It is therefore better not to buy pugs and if anything to adopt those abandoned in kennels.

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