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Originally Posted by yorkielady06  Or that exact blue coat? Or just about anything associated with todays Yorkie except its size?
I for one would love to not have to take a litter of pups and dock tails. It breaks my heart every time. To hear them when it is happening and after. But the standard calls for it so it is done.
There are so many things that are done because it has always been done that way. And until there are enough voices it will not change.
I think the AKC has its feet firmly planted on both sides of the fence. To be that large it has to be in some senses. I may not agree with them being in bed with the puppy mills, I do agree with them lobbying in my behalf to protect every single ethical hobby breeder and even the show breeders. But to do that they will also be protecting all the BYB and puppy mills until new rules are written.
When we ask for more humans to police the police, then someone to police them it starts to become a tangled web to weave. Eventually there is breakdown and corruption (as today shows). When people can come on here that show and say they can show a "dead cat" and champion it, what is that telling us?? It tells me volumes as it should to every one of you. Especially ones that sit as members of the mother club. |
Yes the entire show scene has lost a lot of it's merit. When judges are not ethical, what can one expect.
I believe if all of the breed clubs approached the AKC and threatened to go to one of the smaller registries the AKC would wake up.
But the general public still believes if they are AKC they are top shelf dogs. They would need to start a national ad campeign to educate the public.
But I still think one huge step would be to legislate the selling of pets in stores, and the use of brokers. In the UK you can only buy from the breeder.