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Date Posted: 11:39:08 06/17/08 Tue
Author: Norman Epstein
Subject: Re: I think I'm gonna be sick
In reply to: Michelle Convis 's message, "Re: I think I'm gonna be sick" on 09:49:31 06/17/08 Tue

Michelle wrote in part:

"I want the BB recognized by both AKC & UKC because this allows a venue for everything".

The show German Shepherd Dog fanciers said the same thing when they opted for acceptance by the AKC bcause schutzhund, the breed specific test for the GSD was just to damn hard. The result of this grand cornucopia of choices is now the show/AKC GSD is now a physical and emotional cripple that is seldom if ever used by any working venue. To again quote the former AKC President Kenneth Marden who has acknowledged the role of the show ring in killing off working breeds when he wrote after he left office:

"We [the AKC] have gotten away from what dogs were originally bred for. In some cases we have paid so much attention to form that we have lost the use of the dog." What he was saying was we SELECTED for form over function and because of that, lost function because of our selection process. To that end, from the now famous paper, Rossettes to Ruin:

“Irish Setters, once famed at finding birds, are now so brain-befogged they can no longer find the front door. Cocker Spaniels, once terrific pocket-sized birds dogs, have been reduced to poodle-coated mops incapable of working their way through a field or fence row (and is now the most feared breed by vet techs, while the working Cocker Spaniel is today in England an active hunter and a sound companion). Fox terriers are now so large they cannot go down a fox hole. Saint Bernard,once proud pulling dogs, are now so riddled with hip dysplasia that it's hard to find one that can walk without surgery in old age”.

That the Bulldog was once, and not so long ago, so agile and courageous that it was used for bull bating and because of show selection via the AKC now can barely walk in the sun for more than two or three block, can’t give birth on its own and needs surgery to breathe properly and now the term courage is never used in describing this breed. Are you saying that these changes are the result of just bad luck? or how the dogs were vetted. That approximately 8% of all Dalmatians are born completely deaf (bilaterally deaf); another 22% is deaf in one ear (unilaterally deaf or unilaterally hearing). That translates into 30 % of Dalmatians are born with some type of hearing defect. Why? I guess some more bad luck. I could go on but the show bred failures are littered (to coin a phrase) all over the show ring. Now you can say the AKC didn't do that they are just a registry. If you believe that I've got some ocean front property in Arizona for ya. Norman

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