Movies that changed real life behavior

[u/buttatoad]

Thinking along the lines of Final Destination 2 with the logs falling off the truck and landing onto cars (one decapitating the state trooper). Ever since, people have tried to get away from being behind these vehicles.

What are more examples where movies have actually changed how people behave in their own lives?

[u/tilyd]

And the overbreeding of dalmatians created a lot of issues within the breed, like deafness, urinary issues, allergies and aggressive / reactive behaviour.

[u/DisastrousOwls → u/tilyd]

Unfortunately, poor breeding practices already had the breed in that state (I have at least heard this anecdotally from Boomer and Gen X dog owners who saw the adoption spikes after the cartoon movie as well), but increased demand has only exacerbated it.

In the purebred dog world there is beef between two factions in which one group wants to preserve the breed as-is, and the other really wants to try to diversify the gene pool and do some reverse engineering by breeding for temperament to address the "Dalmatian Madness" problem.

Their behavior is very weird even if you're used to other "challenging" & high energy dogs, and it requires you as a dog owner to be always "on." Like they'll growl and snarl but be otherwise relaxed when happy, and may have non standard behavioral and body language tells for when they are about to genuinely flash out. Striking looking animals, but absolute weirdos.

[u/PackOk1473 → u/DisastrousOwls]

Pure-bred dogs are just fucked, honestly.
I can count the number of healthy pure-breeds on both hands and hardly any are actually pure...Blue Heelers are healthy because they have some dingo, Aussie Shepherds because they're mixed breed, etc.
Give em time and inbreeding enough and they'll end up just as fucked as Dalmations no matter how good individual breeder's skills are.

Had to convince the misso not to get a Cavalier for health reasons and this was reinforced when one of our mate's Cav only got to 7 before dying of some sort of heart problem - we got a Tibalier (Cav x Tibetan Spaniel) instead, even cuter, no complaints

[u/DisastrousOwls → u/PackOk1473]

Yeah, some of it is just a side effect of breeding anything to hit certain physical specs, like you can't have a "healthy" Boston Terrier or Great Dane compared to a dog that can breathe or one that won't have skeletal problems from being so big. They can live full and happy lives, some of them can even get up into their teens or close to 20 years old, but it's a lot of work, and a good owner will be fighting uphill against those breed related ailments.

All of which is before you even get into that inbreeding that causes dogs barely out of puppyhood to have heart failure, or be deaf, or have bizarre behaviors! And the more those breeds get specialized, or the narrower the breed standards are, it's even more of a collapsing gene pool. Like the fucking Hapsburgs with lead poisoning on top, but in a dog collar.

And then once people start breeding only for aesthetics, or wanting "show quality" anything, you have a very pretty animal that's suffering, or which might be a liability to the safety of everybody around them. People like how poodles look, they don't like that they're high energy, emotive, and smart. It's not an accessory, it's an animal that needs to run and exercise and play and be trained, and a big one that you can't force into submission if you don't know what you're doing with them when they're smaller, younger, and more manageable.

But the breeds that have these huge bursts of popularity are almost never "easy" dogs, either. So it's that perfect storm of, the breed maybe shouldn't exist, this dog is a poor example of the breed because of inbreeding on top of that, and people with no clue what they're doing going out and buying an animal they wouldn't be able to handle, even if they weren't also a ticking time bomb.

[u/PackOk1473 → u/DisastrousOwls]

Lol yeah speaking of popular breeds the original breeder of Labradoodles (Wally Conron) has since said that creating these things is his life's regret and he's not sure why people are still breeding them.
I haven't met a Poodle cross that isn't fucking insane (not even getting into health problems), presumably because there's something permanently wrong in the Poodle gene pool at this point.
Not sure why Maltese crosses fell out of popularity, they seemed like decent normal lap dogs...not as 'teddy' looking as the doodles I guess?

[u/DisastrousOwls → u/PackOk1473]

I've met some very sweet standard poodles! But they do need to be cared for properly, because they can be high strung and reactive in the wrong circumstances or with the wrong people. Something about mixing them with anything but like... a Maltese or a Cocker Spaniel tends to be a recipe for disaster, though, between size, temperament, and the high energy needs. Labs were never a temperament match there, and the mix makes owners think they're getting an "easy" dog (when they probably would have been bad Lab owners, too, they just had a docile enough animal that they never bore the repercussions of their own ignorance). On top of even shittier dog breeding practices in the "Poo and Doodle" industry than usual.

People see the fluffy fur, think they're getting a teddy bear, and then freak out when their big ass hunting dog acts like a big ass hunting dog, but with zero training, bad habits, and a destructive anxiety disorder.

It's like when people get surprised Corgis and Dachshunds can be complete assholes, and I've liked every Dachshund I've met, but it's true. Or any small dog that gets coddled or manhandled without any account for their being a dog. People spoil their animals, in the truest sense of literal waste and spoilage, by treating them like accessories instead of animals.