yes, yes, yes!!! Read it and share it widely! There are versions in several languages (including Portuguese), so you have no excuse! The real danger, though, comes not from those dogs who are tested, but from those breeders who keep their heads in the sand and refuse to believe that their dogs could be less than perfect. We can begin to fix that which we reveal, but that which remains hidden is a threat to the future. (...) Not only do these breeders hold fast to the belief that their dogs are untainted by defective genes, structural defects or temperament problems, but they also believe that no dog that they choose to bring into their breeding program through mating with their dogs could possibly be carriers either. After all, they only breed to the best, and, of course, that best just has to be perfect. (...) Now the truly criminal act occurs. These breeders are quite often very successful in the show ring; their dogs are thought to be the best - after all, they have ribbons and placings and titles to prove how worthy their dogs are! Because of their show ring success, they are seen as breed authorities, people that newcomers to the breed trust for knowledge and information. And, the information these newcomers get is that there are no genetic problems to be concerned with, no need to do that expensive testing when the dogs are all healthy. Even more disastrous to the breeds future is that these breeders attitudes begin to prevail. The newcomers see the success of these breeders dogs and buy them (even though few, if any, have had even the most rudimentary testing for structural faults, poor health or defective genes). The newcomers then have a financial and emotional investment to protect which begins to spread this attitude, with predictable results. Soon, because these breeders are the powers within the breed (quite often judges, people selected to discuss the breed at seminars, breeders who command respective prices for puppies and stud fees, breeders seen winning), they use this power to ensure that it becomes unethical to discuss any defects, in either health or temperament, found in any of the pedigrees of their sires, dams or progeny of their sires or dams.(...) What about the breeders who openly discuss the defects found in their own dogs? Unfortunately, they are all too often labelled as poor breeders and their dogs said to be defective. They are shunned and spoken of in whispers and sneers. The very fact that these breeders are striving to share knowledge openly and to scientifically test their dogs make these breeders the subject of witch hunts by the very people who are either too cheap, too unconcerned, too egotistical, too uncaring about the future to even test their dogs, much less have the courage to honestly discuss their dogs. Instead of applauding these breeders who choose to share information, these breeders become shunned and hounded.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 16:03:32 +0000
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