Incest will be banned after March 1st
Yesterday the Kennel Club issued its New Year Regulations.
From March the 1st they'll be refusing to register dogs that are the result of a mother/son, father/daughter or brother/sister mating.
From 2010 all dogs will have to be microchipped or tattooed if they are to be assessed under any of the BVA/KC health schemes.
Crufts judges will be expected to judge to the new revised breed standards - some of which are now available to view on the KC website. Judges have now also been given the power to remove a dog from the ring that they feel is unhealthy.
It's a new year, let's hope this is the new start for Kennel Club we've all been hoping for?
They still need to do a lot more about Coefficients of Inbreeding as very, very few dogs are the result of obvious incest. Most inbreeding today is caused by the overuse of popular sires and line breeding, but it's a start.
Here's the link for the whole story.
From March the 1st they'll be refusing to register dogs that are the result of a mother/son, father/daughter or brother/sister mating.
From 2010 all dogs will have to be microchipped or tattooed if they are to be assessed under any of the BVA/KC health schemes.
Crufts judges will be expected to judge to the new revised breed standards - some of which are now available to view on the KC website. Judges have now also been given the power to remove a dog from the ring that they feel is unhealthy.
It's a new year, let's hope this is the new start for Kennel Club we've all been hoping for?
They still need to do a lot more about Coefficients of Inbreeding as very, very few dogs are the result of obvious incest. Most inbreeding today is caused by the overuse of popular sires and line breeding, but it's a start.
Here's the link for the whole story.
Comments
There is nothing worse than changes being rushed through to prove they are actually doing something.
A larger breeding pool really would be the best way to finally start to eradicate the inherited health problems.
Still - they are making the effort.
I would have liked them to have stated that dogs should not be bred at all from the same line.
Now she is back let's hope a new committe of CARING Cav people join up, then there might be changes.
Brave lady this!
Louise
It appears that not all was as it seemed when nobody else came forward, although the exact situation is somewhat of a mystery.
There are claims on one site that it was a deliberate plan (one assumes knowing that there would be resignations which would bring down the Club) and the poster was "elated" at this result . On another site it apppears if this was the case, it was only a few people behind it - not the exisiting Committee, or other members who wanted to be nominated.
I am very, very sorry that Margaret will not return to the Committee, although under these circumstances she is, as usual, doing the right thing, not wanting to destroy the Club.
I only wish that certain other Club members would behave with the same dignity. If they were to put the same energy into Cavalier health that they do in posting malicious posts and spreading rumours, the breed would be in a much better state.
If so...I wish they'd join the committee to try & make a difference.