Vet Checks becoming a Farce, says Canine Alliance.

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Vet Checks becoming a Farce, says Canine Alliance.The Canine Alliance is astonished that the Kennel Club is calling on everyone to join together one day, and the very next allows a decision to be made to exclude a dog on grounds that do not tally with their directives to vets. It is only a matter of days since the Alliance wrote to the Kennel Club Chairman warning him of the inconsistent manner in which these tests were being applied, but this must bring little comfort to yet another breeder who sees a life’s work shattered in an instant.

It is time for the KC to suspend these tests immediately and to go through a genuine period of consultation. Alliance Secretary Robert Harlow said, “We do not accept the standard response of the KC that the AGM instructed the General Committee to continue the checks. 95 members were in the room by the time a well choreographed KC AGM reached that decision (after a reworking of the order of the Agenda on the day). The General Committee must take responsibility and deal with this matter in the interests of the wider world of pedigree dogs. We regret that the continued inept performance of the Kennel Club, in failing to tackle their own errors which started at Crufts, are now making a laughing stock of the Kennel Club, exhibitors and breeders of pedigree dogs in this country. It is the easiest thing in the world to make a wrong decision – it takes immense courage to admit and correct it. We call on OUR Kennel Club to show that courage now”.The latest incident which the Alliance believes makes the current vet checks a farce occurred at the Welsh Kennel Club show last weekend when the BOB winning Neapolitan Mastiff failed the vet check despite having twice successfully undergone vet checks following previous BOB wins. The owner of Doowneerg Usi was surprised that the WKC vet said that the vets concerned were wrong to pass the dog and maintains that the check made at the WKC show was not in accordance with KC guidelines.Kim Slater, Usi’s owner, who is also the breed’s Health Coordinator, was pleased that after speaking to herself and the breed judge the vet concerned asked Kennel Club Chairman Steve Dean who was at the show in an adjacent building to clarify the situation but incensed when the vet was told that Professor Dean was “unavailable”.

Once again at the WKC dinner Steve Dean had repeated his plea of last year for everyone to get behind what they should refer to as “OUR Kennel Club”, yet when given a perfect opportunity to appease someone who has cooperated totally with the Kennel Club and its strategy on one of the High Profile breeds, he failed to do so.
Ms Slater has written to Caroline Kisko in the strongest terms and is determined to pursue what she sees as “a totally unacceptable situation.”

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