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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Yes, I agree, it is a concern. I mean breed clubs are suppose to define standard, and registries are suppose to be fanatical about keeping accurate records. Does this mean that someone could have an unregistered dog that looked like a breed and get it registered? Hope you can get the support you need from some of the breed clubs over here, I just don't understand why they would want to do this, is there a lack of interest in showing and more and more breeders are breeding dogs that do not look anything like standard? It would be great to know why they thing they should do this. |
No not at all. The linked article actually describes the concerns, no 1: you can have a litter of lets say 8 puppies from 2 CKC registered purebred dogs and lets say 2 of the litter for what-ever reason don't meet the ROE then these 2 dogs are ineligible for registration. Poppycock, off colored, too low too high ear set, eye shape, white markings, have no bearing on whether or not a dog is purebred. It does how-ever impact whether a dog can be shown, and or bred.
For a good 200 years we have worked on the system that when you breed a purebred to a purebred dog (of the same breed) you have x number of purebred puppies that in turn are registered as purebred dogs with the CKC.
No 2 If we agree to this change, then there is a real risk of narrowing the breeding pool, with all the attendant risks thereof.
Then there is the fact that as CKC breeders we can not breed mutts. How do we reconcile this with having 2 puppies of our breeding from 2 purebreds that are not eligible for registration? Are we then in violation of this rule?
As I mentioned before, I expect that with-in the next 10years, purebred status will be DNA'd validated. Once such systems like Mars become accurate enough, and a say a range of plus or minus .005% or so that can confidently ascertain that this dog is indeed say a Yorkshire Terrier, then the breeding landscape will indeed change. And then maybe you disallow this dog purebred dog registration eligibility. But that is not where we are at now.
Phil(pstinard) could probably explain this better than I, but I do know that with so much of a dogs conformation, structure etc is comprised of a whole lot of polygenetic and recessive genes, it would be possible to have a throwback to the foundation types for the breed.
Imagine if you will humans, and we decided to divide up humans, by some breed sic ethnic divisions. It is not enough to have the human genome fully known, but to define what genes make a Chinese a Chinese, or an Indian and Indian.
Any how I await more information