A Crisis for Crufts
Published on February 25, 2009 by Ryan O'Meara · No CommentsFantastic piece in The Independent today focusing on the problems affecting the organised world of dog exhibitions.
Steve Jones, the UK’s top geneticist, said:
“People are carrying out breeding which would, first of all, be entirely illegal in humans, and secondly is absolutely insane from the point of view of the health of the animals… In some breeds, they are paying a terrible, terrible price in genetic disease.”
At the RSPCA, Mark Evans, the chief vet, didn’t muck about.
“The show world is about an obsession,” he said, “about beauty, and there is a ridiculous concept that this is how we should judge dogs… It takes no account of [their] temperament, or fitness for purpose potentially as a pet animal… and that, to me, makes absolutely no sense at all.” His prognosis: if breeders keep up their policy of inbreeding dogs, their genes will come to a dead stop.
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Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare
