Kennel Club's new breed standards

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:12:28 GMT

Beat me to it Bouncy er think ti was Bouncyfi

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Fiona Leathers — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:03:37 GMT

Zara - take your caps lock off - you're hurting my ears!! (capitals mean shouting)

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zara — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:25:25 GMT

I AM VERY PLEASED THE KENNEL CLUB HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THEY ARE GOING TO CHANGE SOME OF THE STANDARDS

AS AN OWNER OF THE SHAR PEI I AGREE FULL WELL THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR CHANGE (MY DOG HAS MINIMAL EXCESS SKIN)

PLUS THERE ARE TOO MANY UNWANTED DOGS AT THE MOMENT DUE TO THE CREDIT CRUNCH SO MAYBE IT WONT BE A BAD THING PLUS NEW OWNERS NEED TO DO THEIR RESEARCH REF MEDICAL PROBLEMS BEFORE BUYING A BREED

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Joel Dudley — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:29:07 GMT

Interesting replies, thank you.

I should be able to get something in the next edition of VN Times and my deadline is today, so if anyone else would like to contribute a quote please feel free to either post here, email me at joeldudley@vbd.uk.com or call on 01733 383544

Best wishes, Joe

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:51:33 GMT

Unless they have DNA of each one each time nothing to stop in line breeding, prove the father without the test. in fact even the mother is who the paper says. As to standards l totally agree with whats been said.

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nicky shoult — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:31:03 GMT

I am all for these new changes but are they really going to work?? Most judges at these shows are breeders or have been breeders themselves so i wonder how 'quickly' they will accept these new standards??

It was on the new last night about the bulldog and how breeders are rallying to save this 'traditional' breed- but what made me laugh was how traditional is the breed we see now a days?? it seems to me that these so called 'breeders' and 'lovers' of the breed have done all the changing and all the kennel club are doind are reverting it back to how it was originally!

It does worry me about the puppy / young dogs that dont comply with the new standards- surely all these changes are going to take lots of generations and lots of line changes to actually produce dogs upto standard and show worthy? So surely we are going to see a lot more breeders wanting to offload pups or are they just going to sell them?

I also saw on the kennel club web site that breeding within the same family lines ie dad to daughter will not be able to registered as pedigree to prevent in breeding, which i think is another brilliant idea to try to stop some of these horrendous hereditary diseases.

And also that owners and puppies being registered with the KC will now have to permanentely identified either with tattoo or microchip- again brilliant!

Lets just hope that they stick to their guns and dont give in to the aqful breeders wanting to continue such awful traits in these poor dogs!

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Fiona Leathers — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:36:15 GMT

Surely these aren't "new" breed standards - it's how the dogs should be anyway without human intervention!

I'm pleased that the Kennel Club has done this but would it have been done without the public outcry from the TV programme?? I don't think so! Just wait for the public backlash (ie breeders) - there has already been one "quality" paper with the heading "The End of the British Bulldog" ---- surely if there hadn't been any change the breed standards would have brought about the end of the bulldog.