WHY HAS DROPPING THE WORD ALSATIAN BEEN WITHDRAWN - Page 1

it would appear that asking the KC to drop the word alsatian from our breed name has been withdrawn why   who was given the right to do this and by whom it would seem that our so called one voice really is only one voice so who's voice is it we all have a right to know    How can something which has been voted on and passed be dropped
jim h

Hi Jim,
That is the gist of it, but be sure, when you are at a Breed Cpuncil meeting, the fog comes down and things are NOT as clear as you would like them to be.  

However, one thing I am sure of is that the mandate  to the K.C. has already been Alsation dropped from the name, and agreed in principal, I understood.   Dissappointing to find that there may be "bargaining" to put it bluntly, but it seemed that although it was agreed at some point in principal, it was under scored by bargain points -that wasnt pleasing, but Bill Lambert was there from the KC whilst this was all discussed.
definately West Yorks proposal was brilliantly put, and agreed to be a sound move to get the correct type of GSD with all relevant health checks in place as the top tier for people to be looking out for - and there was talk of a purple registration for puppies of surveyed parents and much publicity to let Joe Public know that parentage was worthy of survey and health checks, therefore giving the puppy a purple registration form -
I think you got it right that is was to be called the GSD Accredited scheme, and perhaps other breeds would follow suit, so making the accreditation worthy on the dog, not the person that pays his £15 to join and £10 yearly, devoid of his/her circumstas until theyget chcked by the K.C> - which is happening of course, but slowly.
Mandatory health screening will need to be done if parents are having to be surveyed to get these purple pedigrees and accredited pups and dogs.....

I know.... sounds like Eutopia and am sure I will have notched up a few more years before it gets to fruition, but this sort of thing if it is progressed and pushed fervently, and without relent - will lead to the GSD nd the breeders of those particular dogs have everight to call themselves accredited.

Mr Brandon and two of his friends attended the meeting, and were visibly not pleased that our proposal regarding the split was withdrawn, in fact, they left the meeting - but I wished he had seen the sense of why I did so.  It was that much better forward thinking plans had been broughtto the table since the inception of B`hams proposal - and if we dont progress and look at each others plans and recognise a better one, then we stagnate, and have dogs of sub-standard quality.
Mo - Mascani
 

Hello Mo, good meeting well attended and some very positive comments from both us and the KC.  Where I see a problem with the Accredited Breeder Scheme with the Kennel Club and the Scheme we require is that we want all our Sire`s and Dam`s to be Breed Council Surveyed and therefore  produce accredited litters with a different colour registration to show they are worthy. The Kennel Club are working on the fact that to get a different colour registration you need to be an Accredited Breeder which is the scheme they currently run , with maybe a few more health checks. Should they decide to take up our proposal , then unless all the other breeds start to survey their dogs they would only be able to run a two tier system and a different colour registration with us and our GSD`s.  I cannot see them doing this for just one breed in isolation, I hope I have explained myself as I see this as the problem we face while waiting and expecting the new two tier system to be granted in the way we expect  in the future.
John Ward