TIMES online - Judges at CRUFTS etc - Page 2

I trust that most of you read the following paragraphs in the TIMES online article - above

Caroline Kisko, secretary of the Kennel Club, said: “We all think dog shows are under threat. There is a view among some animal welfare groups like the RSPCA that dog shows are bad. But if you don't have dog shows what is the incentive for people to change the way they breed dogs?

“We have to get across that showing dogs is about improving the health of dogs and ensuring they have a good temperament.”

She acknowledged that a number of breed societies were angry about the new standards. “If they don't accept new standards they will have to go their own way. The majority can't be sacrificed to the minority.”

Is it TIME to CONSIDER this offer from the Kennel Club secretary?

 What does the Kennel Club Secretary mean, when she says "they will have to go their own way"? Perhaps a door of opportunity is opening, which some breeds will walk through!

I hope the WUSV member Clubs will investigate the possibility of our breed having much closer links with the SV, perhaps including SV REGISTRATION, and compulsory health screening tests, and their DNA parentage test. With the apparent blessing of the Kennel Club.

How many people really take an ill/unhealthy dog to crufts???  More likely they will take dogs that have poor temperments and the judges cant get near them properly.

How many of us have seen dogs cringing in the benching and being dragged along because they are so unbalanced?  Thats what they should be targeting IMHO.

Reference :Crufts or any future shows.  Health Checks and Shows

The very fact that the dogs which have the failings are registered with the KC means they can enter the shows ,so they ( the KC)are condoning the entries for these events. At what stage do the KC wish to step in and inform the exhibitor their dog is not FIT for the purpose of which they have registered it. It is a possibility that  the exhibitor purchased the dog from an Accredited Breeder or from the KC Puppy sales registrar. Why no one at the KC can get their head around this leaves me confused , I will say no more.
John Ward

well said john and 100% correct
jim h

Taking both David and John's points a little further, re. the Judge disqualifying an animal which in their opinion, is unsound, how is that Judge going to look if the owner walks into the ring, waving a BVA/KC hip certificate, and an  Elbow score, in my opinion i would think that this would place the Judge in a invidious position, what would happen for instance, if it was a male, who's stud career suffered because of the Judges opinion which may later on in a court case be proved contradictory  by the exhibitors vet.  I doubt if the KC would fund the Judges cost, dont you?

   Regards  Paul.

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    You can bet your last pound that the KC would'nt fund the judges legal defence, even though they created the situation.

Regards Paul.

It is a known fact that there have been (and still are) many dogs shown and winning top honours who have high hip scores.  Almost without exception  these animals were considered to be "sound as a pound"