Yippee! I Hope The Uk Is Next To Ban This. Dog Breeding.

[ladybirder]

What say you dog lovers?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10468391/Norway-BANS-breeding-British-bulldogs-Cavalier-King-Charles-Spaniels.html

[Chipchopper]

Couldn't agree more

[rowanwitch]

Doesn't the answers within the breed standards. If the standard says " short muzzle". Or long body, the breed will eventually drift to the extreme manifestation of that because those features will be seen as most desirable. Maybe a review that goes through all the breeds revising the standards to select for healthier characteristics decided by a joint committee from all the main associations, kennel clubs and animal charities. The same for cats too, and even to a lesser extent rabbits where trait development is affecting the health of those animals.

[ToraToraTora]

all dog breeding should be banned except by properly run charities when they consider it necessary. It should be illegal to privately sell a dog.

[roopower]

I think one answer lies with the 'breed type' from the kennel club. I do stand to be corrected as I dont know a lot about it, but at Crufts they say things like 'this breed should have this, that or the other ' and some of those are not natural for the dog. Tails don't need to be docked, boxers should have a longer snout etc. Many dogs have inherited problems with their backs, legs, ears, skin folds from selective breeding. If we can breed natural features out, we can breed them back in though it will take time.

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1782838.html

[lankeela]

The Kennel Club do not breed dogs. The Kennel Club do not own the breed standards, they are the responsibility of breed clubs and although the KC will occasionally intervene to change certain features (which has happened recently with some of the shorter faced breeds) it is left to the breed clubs to decide if they require changes for the good of their breeds. While there are still some features which could cause problems if taken to the extreme judges are expected to report any such features when judging at championship shows, and regular checks are made to see that this is complied with. The amount of pedigree dogs registered by the Kennel Club is a very small percentage of those bred, and it is in the main the unregulated breeding by backyard breeders and puppy farmers over whom the Kennel Club have no control. As for only allowing charities to breed that is the worst thing that could happen as their main reason for being is to rehome unwanted dogs and cats which are mostly crossbreeds and bred by unscrupulous breeders. The Kennel Club have a Code of Ethics incorporated into every breed club constitution which requires us to take back or help rehome any dog bred which finds itself in need of rehoming. My contract of sale requires any buyer to return a dog to me if they cannot keep it for whatever reason. Unlike the neighbour's cockapoo which was bought during lockdown while the young couple were off work, but now has been taken to the local Dog's Trust as their circumstances mean they are not able to look after it properly having been leaving it locked up at home for day after day and it causing problems barking and upsetting neighbours. Where is the breeder of this dog? Who knows because it was bought online and delivered so they never saw the breeder's home, the mother or the litter mates/relatives. I run our breed 'Welfare' scheme which takes care of and finds suitable homes for any dogs that find themselves in need - I am collecting a dog this weekend whose owner has terminal cancer and although it was unregistered so we have no details of the breeder we always do our best to find the right home even for elderly dogs and this one will be going to the highlands of Scotland where a new home is awaiting him.