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Campaign to improve the health of Pedigree Dogs
My Campaign - The future
not listening to our very legitimate concerns about the welfare of dogs.
In the aftermath of 'Pedigree Dogs Exposed' a huge amount of time, money and energy from the dog breeding world has been spent on defending the existing system and organisations, instead of urging members to change.
Margaret Carter, the Cavalier Club's Health Representative with responsibility for Syringomyelia, was ousted from the Club Committee at a Special General Meeting. This was for breaking the breeders' code of silence in disclosing that a champion dog had been MRI scanned and found to have Syringomyelia and had been bred many times. There is cause for concern when a powerful group of Cavalier Club members regard the issue of confidentiality as more important than the health and welfare of dogs.
Will all these things bring about a change in the world of dog breeding and the world of Cavalier breeding in particular?
The Kennel Club and breed clubs need to reorganise their priorities, not just by tinkering with changes to breed standards but by fully and genuinely placing the health and welfare of dogs above the subjective beauty of the show ring.
Change may come from public pressure and legislation to protect dogs from the suffering resulting from irresponsible breeding. However, the signs are not good that change will come from within the existing system.
All of us who have dared to speak out have been patronized, insulted, marginalized and bullied by some breeders and breed clubs. The Kennel Club have treated us badly too by
My Campaign - Updates and outcomes
More MRI scans carried out
More breeders have taken their dogs to be MRI screened in 2009/10 . Some MRI centres have been able to reduce the cost of screening as a result of this. And more MRI centres have been added. The list of MRI scanned Cavaliers is growing and many breeders who are Cavalier club members have realised that it is something they must now do. Puppy buyers are beginning to demand that both parents of a litter of puppies have been MRI screened and that breeders are following all of the breeding guidelines.
Code of Ethics and Code of Best Practice
At the Cavalier Club AGM in March 2009, the proposal by the Club committee to include the Syringomyelia breeding guidelines as a recommendation in the Code of Best Practice was rejected.
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