What’s The Point of The Kennel Club?
Published on September 8, 2010 by Freelance Contributors · No CommentsYesterday, BBC Radio 4 aired a 30 minute item entitled ‘What’s The Point of The Kennel Club?‘. Here, Karen Clark-Stapleton provides her personal reaction to the radio documentary.
I found the topic interesting more-so as I was one of those people who contributed to APGAW in which I heavily criticised both the KC generally and also the Judging which has permitted and indeed created canine suffering for many years.
The KC like to blame everyone except themselves in relation to all that is known as dog, when in fact all most breeders want is for the registry to admit to that they got it wrong and they did in fact encourage canine ill health and far worse they caused many breeds to suffer agonising pain through mismanagement of the breeds through poorly conformed dogs judged to be wonderful examples by trained judges they employ either through private memberships or via their acceptability of judges that have come via breed clubs, those very same breed clubs that created much of the poor conformation in dogs.
Caroline Kisko is wrong in that she feels the appearance should entitle dogs to win , how very shortsighted is that for the advice for dogs for the future.
Health should be a priority BEFORE entering a show, I know there are many breeders of whom have dogs that regularly win at show but are ill, they are lame, they have eye disorders or heart disorders, yet because the KC do not make health testing mandatory the dog will be bred , tests are an important part of the future of dogs.
How can anyone justify 22 Siberian Huskies and then tell other breeders they are puppy farmers because they have 10 dogs from a variety of breeds?
To me this signifies the fact that the KC cannot be trusted to ‘police’ dogs.
The KC by self admission is class and ethnicity frigid, it is ultimately a very white middle class society that likes to Lord it over those who may well come from lower social or politically different classes . It is now time for them to be fully investigated by the Equalities Commission and also the Employment Boards to justify how they employ those in high positions and also how they justify wholly white judging.
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