FUTURE OF THE PUREBRED DOG | TheDogPlace.org
Please read the attached. There is right now a battle going on behind the lines of course at our Canadian Kennel Club Registry. Imagine my surprise that in 2008 the CKC somehow got control of the standards, I have been in the dark and really thought that the National clubs had control - well we do not. There are now *not really new regulations called ROEs', Rules of Eligibility which have existed in the Animal Pedigree Act since its inception, how-ever a bureaucract at the APA decided that they needed to be expanded and unless the CKC kowtows, no new breeds will be able to be registered. We have a full club vote on this for the *seven pilot project breeds*, as well as a member bylaw amendment to change the control of the standard back to the National clubs. We are very cognizant that if those bylaw amendments do not pass that the CKC will be put in a difficult position with the APA. I want you to remember that the AKC and the CKC are *merely* dog registries, that perform a very important task of the keeping of the stud book, and the issuance of pedigrees. They were never incorporated to make breeding decisions for each breed of dog that they register, nor were they charged by THEIR MEMBERS to change a simple registry into a much more select registry of a breeding dog population, that met a minimal ROE.
That is another topic that I posted that provides links and explains the dilemma we face as purebred breeders, at least in Canada.
As purebred breeders, we do need to try to keep current on what is going on North and South of our borders respectively.
And of course I now read this article about the AKC. If only we as AKC and or CKC breeders would be able to organize to create a new registry for North America for purebred dogs!! Get away enmasse from CKC and AKC, and do everything that is right for our purebred dogs!
Do I agree with everything written in that article, well no, but in main, the essence of it, I sure as heck do.