Breeding: Perspective is Everything- Part 1

One day, as I headed to the local Walmart, I glanced over to my neighbor's yard and spotted their chocolate lab, Wishbone. Wishbone is a cool 😎 dog. He is friendly yet protective. He is pretty good at discerning people and situations. From the outside, some people (many on the Nextdoor app based on 3 years of reading unsolicited input about people's animals) would think his family, his owners, don't care about him as much because he goes about his day with no leash, remains unfenced, walks across the street and "plays the dozens" with the pitfalls or comes over to our yard and plays chase with our German Shepard, Queen. 

Heading up the street, it came to me. Queen and Wishbone don't play around with each other alot, especially when Queen is in heat, because Queen, and AKC registered animal, should birth a "pure" litter. "Purebred" pups are highly valued and sought after. Not many people desire a "mut", mixbreed. Why? Is I because the Purebred has papers and can trace lineage? Is it because people know what they are getting? Is it because a mix breed presents too many unknowns? Is it because mixbreeds do not have the desired look? Where does this thought process yield from?

Then, the holy spirit enlightened me. It IS how people are. Do you know that some people refer to others as mut in the most derogatory fashion? I know in many parts of the world 🌎,  not JUST America, many do not care for race mixing and will do some extreme things to ensure its probability of occurrence or reoccurence. Historically, royal European families would procreate with close relatives to keep "their bloodlines pure". They did this as the level of pureness, like with the breeding of animals, somehow had a direct causal relationship with associated value, by self or society. 

Views on Race Mixing in Princeton

So, the "muts" are put away in a certain box or classified less than, mentally, physically, and socially. Can you admit that you have not had a thought or engaged in an act that falls in line with the aforementioned narrative or perspective? 

History and life, the biggest teacher l, shows us daily the carnage from this specific ideology, and it is adverse. 

I guess like the song says, "we are nothing but mammals", gives way that we aren't much different than animals. We are a race of people who associate self value based on society's lens while including values of others as well as plant and animal species. I wonder how the lens and impact would shift if people, animals, and plants, were viewed as "living things" and a removal of classifications ensued? Food for thought...this IS part 1. More to come.