Hmmmm - Crufts - Dogs Trust have also pulled out!

[Acolyte]

I did expect that the charities would follow suit, but since I declared a couple of days ago that I would only sit up and take notice when a charity I respected pulled out of Crufts....

I am now officially sitting up and taking notice!

Maybe the Kennel Club will see this as an incentive to start improving things, but somehow I doubt it

I will start lobbying the KC member I know best...my mother....

 

[Tia]

I personally think the KC are stuffed so far up their own botties that they won't care. They will just keep blundering along as they have done for many years. You'd think that by now they would allow themselves to quietly slither down from that pedestal and admit that they are condoning (if not indeed actually promoting) practices which I believe have adversely harmed the well being of some breeds.

 

[SouthWestWhippet]

Thanks for posting this, I agree with you re taking notice if a respectable charity pulls out.

Shame really cos I love going to Crufts and spending all day shopping

 

[Angua2]

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Exactly what I have been doing as my parents also are KC members.... However, they have been trying to do this do and have been pilloried amongst their breed clubs.... however My mother also writes a newspaper column and has been saying for years this sort of thing via that media.

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

Im normally against this sort of approach but in this case I do think its justified. The problem is the tail (the breeders) wags the dog (KC) and it should be the other way round. The KC had no teeth to impose welfare standards and it jolly well should have them.

Thats both their fault and the governments for not coming up with a binding code of practice for breeding.

Trouble is the breeders can just not KC reg and still make quite a lot of £££. I think in each breed with the worst health issues there should be a list of conditions that should be tested for (compulsory) and if failed that dog/bitch should be neutered forthwith.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Trouble is the breeders can just not KC reg and still make quite a lot of £££.

You're right - just back from a certain pet chain store, there was a notice on the board for three white 13wk old GSD puppies, 'not KC reg but purebred' - for £300 each.

I said a rude word, really loudly.

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

Thats happening a lot more in ads now I think, and kind of proves the Kennel Clubs point when they say we cant make the breeders behave better. But I think they should refuse to allow the behaviour even if it is commercial suicide, because its living breathing animals at risk.

GSDs are one of the breeds that most distress me, I cant bear that crippled back leg look they have in the show ring, thats not how a GSD should be, nor the obese Labs or bulldogs who cant breathe.