autumngracy:

iafayettes:

I’ve only just found out that pugs originally had larger snouts and now I have to share some 18th and 19th century paintings of pugs

Top left to right:

‘The painter and his pug’ by William Hogarth (1745)

Portrait of Princess Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golitsyna, by Louis Michel Vanloo (1759)

Bottom left to right:

‘A pug’ by Thomas Gainsborough (1780)

‘A pug dog’ by Henry Bernard Chalon (1802)

Again, humans are garbage and, just like many royal families themselves, have ended up inbreeding certain dog breeds so much to keep them “pure” that they’ve turned them into pitiful creatures plagued by horrific genetic issues that drastically impact their lives, sometimes even preventing the breed from being able to reproduce on it’s own, breathe properly, or keep it’s eyeballs in its fucking sockets