Proud 2 B British?

Nobody like to be on the losing team. And if your game is morality, then when your group isn't doing so well - it is shameful.

The UK Kennel Club is shaping up their breeds to be healthy and fit. Yes, Pedigree dogs exposed probably shamed them into it, but, still they are doing some small positive steps.

While here in America . . . well, lets not get into that now.

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3) Show Fish.

These are show goldfish. They are shown in goldfish shows, much like some breeds of dogs are shown in dog shows, and some breeds of cats can be found at cat shows.

Each type of mutation is called a breed. Two fish with the same mutation are bred together, so that their babies will all have this same mutation too.

All of these 6 breeds of show goldfish have been bred to have deformed body types - to be different from the usual goldfish. None of these fish are fat or pregnant - they are all bred to look that way.
In the upper left - see how the scales stick out like the fish has dropsy? - he has been bred to look like that. Notice the growth like thing on his head. It has no function.
In the upper right - this fish shows the classic "show" type marble body, and fins that make him waddle as he tries to swim.
In the middle, on the left - this fish is bred to have those lumps around his eyes, and all over his head. Compare his nearly useless tail fins to the functional tail fins of the normal goldfish.
In the middle, on the left, notice the mutated eyes that give this mutated goldfish breed the name "Bubble-eyed goldfish".
On the bottom, on the left - notice the really extreme eye mutation. This goldfish is bred to have those huge growths under his eyes, which only let him see above him. These goldfish are specially bred to have this mutation. This fish is a prize winner.

On the bottom, on the right, is another show goldfish breed. He has a bowed back, large head, show body and a white body with orange points.

It really isn't nice to breed fish that suffer, just to enter them in shows.

Some dog breeders show mutated dogs. There is a show coming on TV on December 10th, called Pedigree Dogs Exposed, that is about breeding dogs for "parades of mutants".

But you can get a jump ahead and watch it on video, on YouTube, in 6 parts (links at the sidebar) - but they made the first part where you have to be over 18 to watch it.

Cat shows often feature mutated cats, that don't look quite like a regular house cat or barn cat.

And there are pigeon shows where people go through alot of work raising pigeons that can't fly right and look odd.

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1) Wild Goldfish

This is what goldfish look like in the wild.

Very rarely, you might see an albino deer, or a two headed snake.
Or a wild gold colored carp.

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2) Tame Goldfish.

People kept the different goldfish, and bred them.

But, then people grew accustomed to the goldfish, and the orange colored goldfish didn't seen odd or rare anymore.

So when really different looking goldfish were born, some people bred these, and entered them in goldfish shows.

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Fainted Goat

More crazy animal breeders

And what do you think about:

* Fainting goats - goats who are bred to faint when scared, people scare the goat, it faints, people laugh.

* Waltzing mice - who are bred to have a problem which causes them to spin in circles - they were popular with fancy mice people years back.

* And those people who breed pigeons that flutter and roll because they are bred to not be able to fly normally.

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I plan on posting there, and sometimes at:
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I might also post on :
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Although I might add an occasional tidbit here on my own site, mostly I will be posting there, as I have other plans for this time of the year.

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