Has anyone in the U.K just seen BBCs pedigree dogs exposed?

Question

I am not coming to this conclusion because of a tv program. I was just trying to find the feeling of the population. I have known about the corrupt cruel bast**** from first hand experience

Answer 1

Pedigree`s are man made, they are as far from the original breed as possible.

the kennel club are the biggest offenders.they are the ones that over the years have "dictated" what a breed should look like.

How many dogs have had their tails docked .to compliment the show breed.Thankfully now we are seeing boxers with tails.as they should be,lets see the Rottweiler.and Jack Russell

So many breeds have been that distorted they. cant breath properly because of this,

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Answer 2

Good Lord!  PETA has brainwashed the Brits!  I thought they were too smart to buy into this animal rights n**i propaganda.

Answer 3

*sigh*  I guess we're goint to be hearing about this AR fueled bullchit for the next few days.....

EDIT: Kip, you know perfectly well that if it's on TV it MUST be true! (rolls eyes)

Answer 4

It is disgraceful and very upsetting. These breeders should suffer the same indignity and pain.

Answer 5

I think that more of the blame rests with breeders who are more conserned with wining shows than there dogs health or more conserned with making money.

I think the KC could improve by stateing things like; all breeders must do the health tests befor breeding the dog, and that at the shows the dogs handler must produce a clear health test before the dog can be judged, not regestering close breeding (inbreedings), and advise all breeers not to cull pups unless they have a health problem that cant be cured and that will cause the dog to suffer.

After all the KC is realy just another dog club so the way forward would be something like a breeding legerstration makeing thinks like inbreding, culling healthy pups, not health testing ect illegal.

Answer 6

Well im glad everyone else got to see it!

For some wierd reason its not on my scottish telly,thought scotland was in the UK???

Answer 7

No thought for the poor dogs, it's a business. I have encountered many of these dogs on show grounds all the breeders/owners think of is money. A dog stands like it stands and doesn't need it's legs pulling out to achieve the so called clubs standing position.

Hope something comes of the programme if only for the poor dogs.

Answer 8

I thought the same, and then realised how many "exposes" the BBC have done on things I know a bit about, so decided not to take any notice.

Answer 9

I thought this program was mainly factual, well-researched and desperately sad. I know enough about the health of companion animals to say that TOO MANY breeders (though not all) breed for looks over health. I own a pedigree dog that has numerous health problems resulting from a compromised immune system due to careless breeding. My previous dog, the same breed, was the same. I have had contact with 100s of similar owners. It is not coincidence. Pedigree dogs are, generally speaking, unhealthy and inbred, "designed" by money-driven breeders who are responding to public demand. The Kennel Club is guilty. Many vets are guilty. Breeders are guilty. And let's face it owners are gulity (perhaps through ignorance) because if we didn't want "designer dogs" there would no demand for these poor creatures.

Answer 10

I believe everything I see on tv.. all of what I read online too.  People couldn't write it if it wasn't true right?

Answer 11

yes i have, its sad

Answer 12

HAHAHAHHAHHAAA!!!!!

Thanks for the laugh!!!  Really - do you believe everything you see on TV?

Answer 13

"I know the kennel club is full of money making fascists "

Really?

That sounds like a really informed statement to me.

http://www.doggenetichealth.org/

Tracy we are calling it BS on behalf of the many many dedicated breeders who are already doing all they can to produce healthy puppies.

Answer 14

Surely it is up to the judges at the Dog Shows to ensure that the original attributes of each breed are maintained. The only way that trends develop where certain attributes of a breed are overly exaggerated which then causes health issues, such as in English Bulldogs, Pugs, Pekingese, etc is if judges are putting up dogs with these exaggerations. Unscrupulous breeders want to win at all costs and will always try to breed to what the judges are putting through, rather than to the actual breed standard.

I don't think that buck stops there though cos it is the National Kennel Club who trains the judges and "licences" them to judge. Surely then it is up to them to ensure that the dogs that are being awarded are good specimens of the breed, and if a judge is putting up dogs with exaggerated characteristics they should be retrained or struck off the judge's list.

It is all about accountability - not just of the breeders, but of the judges and the Kennel Clubs. If problems exist in the Show Dog wold, and it does seem that they do, then they need to be addressed at all levels. You can't just blame the breeders.

I am speaking as someone who has shown Belgian Shepherd Groenendaels is the past and I have seen some judges that have awarded what I considered to be very hypertypical specimens of the breed.

In addition, I understand that Dog Shows are conformation shows, i.e. all about structure, but why can't temperament and function testing be introduced to show that a dog also meets the standard re. their temperament and are able to perform the tasks they were originally bred for.

Answer 15

I think it's disgusting that breeders are calling it AR bulls***t. Instead of name calling the people who genuinely care about dogs, stop lining your  pockets and rubbing each others egos, own up and make a change to improve the health of our pedigree dogs instead of destroying them.