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DOG NEWS (USA)
The BBC Attack
The recent BBC attack on purebred dogs and some of their health problems was particularly egregious for a number of reasons. Firstly the Kennel Club had correctly or not worked closely with the production company Passionate Productions which had been making a film on the subject of canine health. Obviously with the hope of keeping a potential enemy close at hand in an effort to get its story across The Kennel Club was duped in the end result. To add insult to injury not only did the BBC buy the program, the BBC was kept abreast of The Kennel Club hard and positive work in these health areas. A fact, which from time to time these pages have kept our readers aware of us as well. Indeed more than virtually any kennel club in the world has The Kennel Club in the UK taken extraordinary steps in attempts to introduce positive breeding programs within the breeding community to help stamp out long standing health issues. It has gone so far as to controversially introduce the concept of health into a judge’s decision at the shows, something, to our knowledge, no other kennel club has ever even considered. And then to be stabbed in the back that way by both BBC and the production company is particularly upsetting and unfair. One bright spot of the course is that at least they were able to anticipate this unhappy event as was reported in the last weeks DOG NEWS thanks to the message sent to us by Ronnie Irving which was printed August 15th.

Reproduced by kind permission of Matt Stander.

DOG NEWS (USA)
August 22 2008, The Editorial