Crufts

The Kennel Club must stop promoting the breeding of dogs, especially those who can’t breathe, through its twisted canine beauty pageant.

Ahead of Crufts, the world’s largest dog show, PETA is calling on the Kennel Club to stop promoting the unethical breeding of pugs, French bulldogs, and other flat-faced breeds by removing them from the show.

By banning images of pugs and French bulldogs, Moonpig is helping to put an end to the promotion of dog breeds with painful, life-threatening deformities.

Wire-haired dachshund Maisie has been named the Crufts 2020 Best in Show winner – but that’s nothing to celebrate.

TV vet Emma Milne and over a dozen other veterinary professionals highlight the consequences of cruelly breeding dogs for exaggerated physical features.

Watch the video that The Kennel Club wants off the internet.

“This is not about winning a popularity contest …”

We applaud and support the activists who stormed the event and encourage everyone who wants to prevent animal suffering to take a stand, too.

Brandishing posters reading, “Crufts: Canine Eugenics”, the protesters highlighted the suffering of dogs bred by humans to have grossly exaggerated features.

We took a look through the family trees of some of the dogs who won “best of breed” prizes at last year’s Crufts. Here’s what we found.