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Originally Posted by nana911  breed, never want to. I have my "pets", newly spayed and am perfectly happy. So, I have no investment in this debate. My question is, if one depends on the UKC or AKC 'book' of standards for their breeding program and the 'book' is specifying standards that are detrimental to the breed then where do the ethics come into play?
I am NOT speaking necessarily to Yorkies, as I do not see a tremendous degradation of them healthwise overall in their skeletal systems, only in the mill system that is breeding them ever smaller and that is NOT in the standard. I am referring to what was hammered on in the Crufts program such as the King Cavalier and the German Shepherd which I found appalling and was defended as a written standard. If that is the written standard and as a breeder you are supposed to breed to that standard to win in the showring, than what is the alternative to being a show breeder?
I'm just asking, seriously? The program really disturbed me... |
I believe once it is known that the breed standards are deterimental to a dogs health, the AKC should no longer allow those breeds to be shown.
All of the breeds with flat faces should be stopped. Those dogs cannot even breath.
Maybe when they set those standards, they were not aware of this problem, but they are now. yet the continue to breed them.
The English Bulldog cannot even reproduce without AI and C sections. Without the aid of humans those dogs would become extinct.