Dogs Trust Withdraws from Crufts and All Kennel Club Events
Dogs Trust Withdraws From Kennel Club Events Including Crufts
Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity has announced it will be withdrawing from Crufts and Discover Dogs. Dogs Trust will also not be involved in this year’s Westminster Dog of the Year Show. This follows consultation with the charity’s Trustees and requests from its supporters.
Dogs Trust believes that this removal of support is the strongest signal it can give to the Kennel Club and breeders to achieve immediate action to ensure that the health and wellbeing of pedigree dogs is ranked over appearance and artificial breed standards.
Dogs Trust hopes that this will lead to rapid changes in the manner in which dogs are bred and is in talks with Defra and The Kennel Club to help bring about the following much needed changes:
1. The review of breed standards to ensure they are firmly focused on the health and wellbeing of the dog, not the supposed aesthetics of the breed. Breeders and show judges must be required to adhere to these revised breed standards.
2. The introduction of secondary legislation, so as to prevent inappropriate breeding practices, especially the intentional inbreeding of closely related dogs or dogs with known debilitating genetic illnesses.
3. The introduction of genetic screening of all breeding stock and the assured integrity of such a process.
4. Purchasers of dogs should first consider a rescue dog. If it is a pedigree, they must understand the importance of determining and questioning its genetic heritage.
Dogs Trust has had a long history of working with The Kennel Club in order to promote rescue dogs at pedigree shows and we hope to be able to continue this relationship as soon as these vital animal welfare points have been put in place.
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If you think this will help pedigreesd dogs how will they inforce it. DNA is expensive and takes quite a bit of time. AKC randomly does dna on puppies. They did it to a litter of my of pups. I had all out in (four) the same bitch and by the same dog. They were out in an X pen getting sun, even though winter and the temp was around 70′. They had the plastic ID collars on when I put them out. In a short periob of time the collars were on the ground, well chewed. The AKC rep showed up and did a dna swab on the four pups. Four months latter I got puppy papers on three of the pups but not on the forth. I was sent a letter stating the forth pup
did not have the same dna. That was a lie. I never received a refund from them. Considering the cost of AKC’s illegel antics plus the potential cost of the pup if I was going to sell it, I was.My pups sold for $500 to $1ooo. AKC owes me money, I will see that money when hell freezes over. All the show people and breeders I talked to told me if it ever happens again have an independent DNA expert do it. This will never happen to me again by AKC. I will not breed any dogs, and if I do they will not be registered with AKC. There are ten other registers and they are growing.
Good luck,
Belta
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Please excuse my spelling in my last comment. I am sick and the medicine messes with my head.
Sorry,
Delta
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