GSD IMPROVEMENT PLAN (GSDIP) UK-REPORT - Page 1

Seems to me the "plan" is to formalize all of the health testing and color issues that most of the proponents on this board endorse, or the pups can't be registered with the UK Kennel Club.

It's kinda of like a "put your money where your mouth is" - "shit or get off the pot" - attitude.  Unless I've missed something  - it appears that dogs will be non-registerable unless they're tested as healthy.

I'm not sure what the objection could be unless breeders are planning on NOT health testing their dogs..

Did I read the right report? 

Here:

Link to report


It appears that - because the offspring of registered dogs apparently must be registerable, according to a law there, the two tier system looks to differentiate what some call "pet quality"  by color coding the registrations -  kind of formalizing the differences between the different "qualities" as described by the breed standard and health.

I think it is unfortunate that they have linked non-health and health related faults together personally. 

Is there another site link with the update referred to?  

Thanks, Joyce.  That's what I thought.  I took it from Videx that he was speaking about the GSD partnership and I think Funky Monkey was talking about the "accredited breeder plan" - which is obviously a completely different animal. :)

I abhor the fact I felt it necessary to come back here to make comment but not more so than I abhor the ABS.
If I never, ever say anything else on this messageboard, let me make one thing absolutely clear, AS LONG AS THERE IS BREATH IN MY BODY I WILL NEVER BECOME A SIGNATORY TO THE KC's Accredited Breeder Scheme, I despise hypocrites so I certainly do not intend to allow the KC to turn me into one.  IMO the ABS is nothing but a 'CON' to breeders and the majority of Breeders using it are doing nothing more than perpetuating the CON onto the General Public.

The Scheme is NOT MANDATORY so pays nothing more than LIP SERVICE to the Health and Welfare of Pedigree Dogs yet does so in a way to attract the unsuspecting Joe Public into believing these people are actually doing all the Health checks it claims.

1. The scheme is A PUBLIC SCAM, It is so because the KC neither check, expect nor do they even insist that anyone who signs up to the scheme actually complies to ANY of the Health tests or schemes that is recommended for any breed.

2. I would NEVER sign up to something that I did not intend to FULLY COMPLY WITH 100%. Anything less than 100% committment to a promise to adhere to Specific Health Screening tests is tantermount to fraud. If you cannot fully comply with ALL you sign up for then IMO you should not sign up at all and to do so and then only make a Half Hearted committment whereby you pick and chose when and where it suits you is nothing short of Hypocritical and an attempt to either pull the wool, fool or even con puppy buyers.

3. To comply with the current KC ABS recommendations for GSD;s would immediately reduce any available, suitable stud dogs of any  real worth or value to a level of almost zero percent. (0.5% if you were very, very lucky, depending upon your females bloodline).

4. Any signatory to the KC ABS who insist they COMPLY to ALL the recommendations of the scheme will find they have immediately become untruthful should they decide to use ANY EUROPEAN stud dog as for starters NO GERMAN stud dogs have undergone eye tests, Heamophilia testing, nor have they gone through the KC's own DNA scheme (which is the only DNA scheme the KC currently recognise) and I could go on.

That is my take on this scheme, a NON MANDATORY scheme is as useless as the paper it is written on especially since the majority that are signed up to it are actually doing less than the majority of us who believe it to be nothing but a CON and just another way for the KC to increase their yearly income.  

Regards
Sue B

ps Actually Joyce said it all in her excellent post above and summed it up perfectly in her last sentance. Accredited Breeder should be earned and not bought. Brilliant Joyce.

The Kennel Club (UK)  "accredited breeder scheme"
has very little credibility
The "GSD Partnership" with its "update"
has seriously endangered its own credibility
(anyone wanting to receive the "update" please email me)

 

Videx:

Can you post the "update" so fair comment can be made?  I thought you were speaking about the link I had posted?