• Cute, cuddly, and often crippled: look where the love of dogs has taken the British | Martha Gill

    Cute, cuddly, and often crippled: look where the love of dogs has taken the British | Martha Gill
    From dachshunds to pugs, our canine friends are bred to better serve as emotional crutchesor status symbolsYou may have missed a recent international incident. Last week, we Brits got wind of a very worrying development across the Channel. “Sausage Dogs to be banned in Germany,” ran alarmed headlines in the UK press. The Germans, for their part, were so baffled by this response that they reported on it themselves. “Brits Fear for the German Sausage Dog”, ran a puzzled art

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