CreepyGroovy: yes, if you want to be semantic about it.

Me, I’m just here for the cute. Seeing folks freaking out and getting weirdly defensive over other people’s taste in critters prompted me to try and explain the perspective of those who had a similar response about that kitten in the previous post. That’s all.

Awwwwwww, wrinkly fuzzy babies. *snuggles up next to them and falls asleep*

They look like soft, furry, wringly pig-dogs. Actually, they look incredibly soft!

haha i think her main goal is to kill people with total overloads of cuteness. i heard her discussing it with the imaginary people in her closet! so be careful of future pictures they may be harmful

Grace said:
“It’s…not cute to…those who recognise the mismanagement of animal breeding its mutated little head represents. These puppies look exactly the way they’re meant to, which is freaking adorable.”

Actually, not true. As recently as a few hundred years ago, dogs displayed less genetic diversity – they all looked much like their wolf relatives. Long rostrums (snouts) were the norm. Then along came people – especially those crazy Victorians – who decided they wanted to tinker with the mutations they were seeing in their domestic pets, and voila, dog breeding became a fancy.

So those adorable puppy faces with their short stubby snouts were just as “engineered” by human breeders as the Persian cat was. It’s done to enhance the pedomorphic (baby-like) features of the animal’s head. And you gotta admit, it certainly does up the cute quotient.

Hehehe I scrolled down quickly and just glancing at the photo, I thought I was looking at 4 smooshy little butts.

Awww!!!! fwoppie cheek doggies! How I want to go jiggle their widdle fwoppie cheeks!

Oh, and when I took that picture, they were too young to walk. They would drag their tiny wrinkly bodies across the carpet and fall asleep in balls on top of each other.

Those are my mom’s dogs. She breeds them. She has a website for them. It’s http://www.selectbulldogs.com

So sweet and cute. I want to give them all hugs!