WATCH NOW: 5 Savage Secrets Exposed at Crufts

It’s billed as the ‘world’s largest dog show,’ a ticketed and televised event promoted to dog lovers, but what Crufts doesn’t want you to know is that this canine beauty pageant has a dark underbelly.

An eyewitness at this year’s show filmed some abhorrent admissions. Here are 5 clandestine cruelties Crufts organisers and promoters don’t want you to know.

1. Dogs are forced to wear makeup to enhance their markings

Behind-the-scenes witnesses filmed guardians roughly applying makeup to dogs’ faces to enhance markings and ‘correct’ colouring. In the video below, you can see dogs resisting as guardians frantically apply makeup and what appears to be markers to their delicate eyes and snouts.

2. Dogs are disfigured via ‘binding’

Those showing dogs at Crufts go to lengths to manipulate dogs’ bodies to achieve ‘perfection,’ with one breeder even went so far as to tightly wrap tape around a pug’s ears to make them “look better.” This isn’t about celebrating the natrual beauty of dogs; it’s just a beauty pageant for their egotistical guardians.

3. Breathing Impaired Breeds (BIB) are deemed “too expensive” to insure.

Real dog lovers prioritise the health of the animals they care for, but not Crufts’ cronies! Those showing flat-faced (BIB) dogs, who suffer from a myriad of health issues thanks to their deformed faces, from breathing problems to heart attacks and early death, admitted they don’t bother to insure the animals. These animals are too unhealthy to be insured. It’s unconscionably selfish to keep breeding animals with life-limiting deformities, especially when you know that they cannot even be insured because of these health issues.

4. Dogs are too sick to give birth naturally (and shouldn’t be forced to breed, anyhow!)

One breeder estimated that 95% of bulldogs have to endure painful and dangerous caesarean procedures to produce the puppies that the industry demands. Like all surgeries, C-sections are invasive and can lead to complications, including the death of the mother , bleeding issues, aspiration pneumonia (inhaling fluid into the lungs), infection and uterine disorders, including prolapse.

5. Artificial breeding is rife, and dogs are treated like puppy machines

Breeders casually commented about artificially impregnating their dogs – they insert semen that they masturbate from a male dog into a female dog. Like all dog shows, Crufts isn’t about letting dogs be themselves; it’s about making as much money from them as possible, violating their reproductive systems and perpetuating the breeding cycle that lands animals in shelters.