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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  If a breed club were to accept anyone who wanted to join, the millers would be in charge of the breed clubs. The mother club, should be just like a good mother, and protect the breed, of course they have to be careful who they let in, they want to know you for several years and what your ethics are before accepting you. It's not just about being nice or knowledgeable. I'm really surprised; some of you seem to fail to understand the importance of having a good breed club whose primary interest is the future of the breed. Not all breeds have had good breed clubs that have been protective, and purebreds have gotten a bad rap because of it, many breeds are in serious trouble because clubs picked up on the latest fad, without knowing the long-term health impacts. Unfortunately, the term purebred may have no real meaning in the future, it no longer means a quality dog that is suppose to look and act a certain way. Don't blame the mother club for that. |
Yes, a good mother should protect it's offspring but not reject a child because it is different from what they (or a group of people) perceive as being perfect or ideal. A breed club should be open for all to join and the show ring is where a dog should be judged.
As much as I'd like to join the the YTCA because I breed parti colored yorkies, I wouldn't have a chance at joining it. It wouldn't matter if I had the most perfect steel blue and tan dog, I'd be tarred and feathered before I could send in my membership application
When I raised Morgan horses, the standard was dark horses (bay, black, brown, chestnut) with little to no white but when my bright red colt was born with rear stockings that ran above his hocks, a blaze that wrapped around his face and a 4 inch belly spot (he's one of the first double registered pinto morgans), I watched him grow, decided to put my horse where my mouth was and in the show ring he went.
The American Morgan Horse Association was open to all and though I was told that most Morgan judges wouldn't even look at my colorful colt, I was lucky enough to get a judge with an open mind and she looked beyond his color and saw the horse. Competing in a class against 5 bay, 2 yo stallions who had no white, my odd colored boy won reserve champion, than went on to win reserve showing against the winning weanlings, yearlings and 2 yo. stallions.
My point is that I was able to show my pinto morgan in an "A" rated Morgan show because the breed club was open to all. It makes me sad that I'm unable to have that same opportunity with my colorful AKC registered yorkies.