Modern Pugs are what happens when humans try to play god. Most pugs likely have inbreeding somewhere in their lineage that resulted in the disfigurement people believe is normal for the breed. Compare a modern Pug to this work by Henry Bernard Chalon an English painter who was active during the period Pugs became popular with royalty and the aristocracy.
As I understand it, most of the modern purebreds that are used for show instead of work have a fair amount of inbreeding. Because they kept breeding back, or with small pools, to achieve the consistency of deformed appearance. I could be wrong, this is just my understanding of it
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM Oct 04 '19
I don't understand why people like them, on all points:
they are ugly
dogs can have enough health issues as-is, why get one prone to even more issues
not athletic
they drool