THE GSD PARTNERSHIP QUESTIONNAIRE - Page 5

Videx how can you say that unsoundness only occurs occasionally and is penalised by judges ????????.

That is not true Videx and you know it !,   If that were true there would not be a problem .  It's more like the opposite where soundness only occurs occasionally !!!!!!.  

Soundness USED to be an important part of judging in past years ,  judges in recent years appear to have not noticed the unsoundness like the old judges did , they would not put up with unsoundness.

Not that I am a KC fan because I am not but how can you really expect the KC to take GSD breeders seriously when you make such false and silly statements !.   You might be blind Videx ...... not everybody is !.

Simon.

What Reinhardt Meyer considers to be ‘unsoundness’ and what is ‘unsound’ with the breed here in the UK are worlds apart. Almost every day I see people walking GSDs that are crippled and have ghastly mobility problems. That is what the BBC raised and what started the current furore. Every breeder in the country knows why this is so. It is because any damned GSD can be registered with the KC and the breeding requirements of the KC are negligible. The public think they are getting some guarantee of quality with a ‘KC pedigree’ and they are not. That is the real ‘unsoundness’ with the breed here in the UK and we should not forget it. And it is directly attributable to the KC.

Let us focus on what is relevant here. And that is how we RESPOND to the KC. Videx makes a valid point when he tells you what the KC headline will be if we answer this questionnaire as drafted.

 petowner Simon (aka pencil) - I know what I wrote, and I am far from blind or silly.

I reckon a clear majority of GSD are bred by breeders who never show their GSD, and who never hip score their GSD, and who never enter any debate about GSD, and will never respond the any Kennel Club diatribe.

Now consider the minority within the GSD breed who do exhibit, and they are shrinking. How should the Kennel Club sort out health problems within our breed?

They should MAKE HEALTH SCREENING TESTS A REQUIREMENT FOR KENNEL CLUB REGISTRATION.

By failing or refusing to do this, they declare themselves "UNFIT FOR PEDIGREE DOG HEALTH ISSUES"

The KC currently "tinker around the periphery of health issues"

Therefore we must create our own SYSTEM - which will be much better than the Kennel Club's system.

Videx I said you might be blind , I said the statement you wrote was silly !. The statement you wrote is not true !. I am only stating facts.   By the way what does aka pencil mean please ?, is this some sort of insult that I am not familiar with ?. 

Simon.

David, you know what i mean, i am the first to make allowances for slightly loose hocks,but we getting to the point with some animals,  ( as Peterlee points out  )  where it appears that the whole skeletal structure is changing, at this moment in time probably not enough to panic about, but never the less it needs addressing.  Maybe this topic should be discussed elsewhere,  but in a positive vein.

 Regards Paul.