I'd like to ask about puppy mills and their connections with registries and how that affects the standing of American and Canadian dogs worldwide. It seems that this connection is what prevents both countries from being full members of FCI.
This quote may explain what I mean...
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"• Competence and responsibility for breeding rests with the member countries and contract partners of the FCI and includes breeding guidance, breeding advice and monitoring breeding as well as the keeping of the studbook.
• The FCI member countries and contract partners are under the obligation to draw up their own breeding regulations based on the FCI Breeding Regulations, in which the breeding objectives are laid down. Such regulations must take appropriate and reasonable account of the specific working characteristics of the respective breeds.
Dog traders and commercial dog breeders are not permitted to undertake breeding in a member country or contract partner of the FCI."
From this source.. fci.be/uploaded_files/Breeding_EN.doc
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Are the parent clubs not concerned that this one thing (dog traders and commercial breeders) is the sticking point that separates us from the rest of the world? While the AKC and CKC certainly can't outlaw puppy mills on their own, they can specify what one is and refuse to register dogs from these sources. Would that be good enough for FCI?
I've also seen on other breeds' forums and pages that North American dogs are not the 'same' as dogs from other countries, and not for the better. Do the breed clubs not feel it's desirable to conform to FCI or are they content to go it alone, as far as stewardship of breeds? After all, isn't the #1 priority of any breed club the 'betterment of the breed'?
Just asking a few open questions as it seems like both the U.S. and Canada stick out like sore thumbs in the dog world. |