It has come to our attention today that the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club has publicly accused K9 Magazine of ‘omitting’ information in our recent coverage of their shameful decision to expel Margaret Carter from their committee.

In our report: Kennel Club Hits Out at Cavalier Club; Supports Margaret Carter we published a statement from the Kennel Club supporting Margaret unreservedly. It read as follows:

The Kennel Club is concerned about the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club’s decision to remove breeder, Margaret Carter, from its committee.

Mrs Carter appeared to speak for those very aims that the Kennel Club and the Cavalier King Charles Club itself supports, which is reflected in the vast amount of effort that the breed club has put into ensuring that the health of the breed is progressed. Mrs Carter’s intentions appeared to be honourable and her will to ensure that the health of the breed is maintained, through responsible breeding practices, is one that the Kennel Club fully supports.

However, the Cavalier club have published an addition to the statement we reported which reads as follows:

‘These aims are also ones that the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club endorses and this is reflected in the vast amount of effort that the breed club has put into ensuring that health of the breed is progressed’

The Cavalier Club’s report then goes on to editorialise by adding:

(This part of the statement was omitted by K9 Magazine)

I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.

You can’t omit a statement you were NEVER GIVEN.

We published the Kennel Club statement as was provided to us IN FULL.

So if the KC has elected to furnish the Cavalier Club with this additional information as a result of the request made to them by the Cavalier Club, who initially refused to accept that the Kennel Club had even provided the statement in support of Margaret Carter to K9 Magazine and had to call the Kennel Club in order to confirm that the statement was accurate and represented the view of the Kennel Club as a whole, we can hardly publish or ‘omit’ something if we were never given it in the first place.

So please, Cavalier Club, if it is your desire to keep the focus on your actions having shamefully expelled Margaret from your committee as a result of a blatant, unconcealed act of childish vengeance all because this lady has the backbone, courage and principles you are so sorely lacking, at the very, very least ensure you do not make claims about the reporting of the incident which are completely untrue as it does nothing other than to further confirm the opinion in which your club is now held by the vast majority of right minded dog lovers.

Had K9 Magazine been given the additional information you have been provided, we’d have published it. Plain and simple. We were NOT given it, at any time, and have published the statement as it was sent to us by the Kennel Club.

I appreciate this probably shocked you to read. I appreciate you probably believed the Kennel Club would be backing your vendetta. And I appreciate your world has been crashing down around your ears for a number of months now. But that does not excuse your continuing desire to grasp desperately at small straws, pursuing a course of action which is founded on the politics of personality when your breed is in desperate need of the help and support that is so epitomised by Margaret Carter. Until the day you decide to right your wrong and restore Margaret to your committee, you will forever be tainted and viewed in the light you are currently cast – as a petty, revenge minded group with priorities that are way, way out of kilter with what is actually required to help your breed in troubled times. Margaret Carter was not only an asset to your breed club, she is an asset to the breed itself. You would be wise to acknowledge this.

So here’s the message to the Cavalier Club:

1) Get your facts straight before you make accusations about our reporting
2) Re-appoint Margaret Carter to the committee and at least follow the lead of the Kennel Club in acknowledging just how misguided and badly judged your actions have been
3) Try and invest your attention in to fixing the problems with your breed rather than on spinning your way out of a public relations disaster.

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5. Resignations at the Cavalier Club as Margaret Carter is Reinstated