_________________________________________________
.
Introductory Material (links to the program and a comparison of the old and new Pekingese standards)
.
Part 1: The background of the decision
.
Part 2: How Pedigree Dogs Exposed was both factually incorrect and wrong in its conclusions
.
Part 3: The Pekingese in particular
.
Part 4: So where do we go from here?
.
Related Topics: Inbreeding
.
_________________________________________________________
Thank you, very thought provoking. I’m astounded at the changes being made.
Comment by Jeri — October 19, 2008 @ 10:14 pm |
Nice to read that somebody can see the fuller picture rather than the one cleverly portrayed. It’s producer has said quite openly they did not see the need to portray a balanced programme.
Comment by E-F-G — October 21, 2008 @ 2:34 pm |
[...] Important Posts How to kill a shelter dog Pedigree Dogs Exposed: The roundup post Adopting a shelter or rescue dog: The roundup post Vegan diets for dogs: Parts 1, 2, spam What [...]
Pingback by The scandal of marketing purebred dogs « Ruffly Speaking: Railing against idiocy since 2004 — November 16, 2008 @ 4:32 pm |
My heart completely goes out to the Peke breeders and fanciers. OMG we are in the middle of this mess with our Chows at the moment with 5 days time to pull together a petition and presentation…over the Xmas Holiday.
If anyone wants to read more about our fight to save the historic stilted gait in our breed here is a link to my World Chow forum topic discussing the situation.
http://worldchow.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=476
Banding together is the only way we can make any headway.
Thank you for the VERY good articles.
Comment by Sandra MIller — December 20, 2008 @ 6:46 pm |
[...] need to become very visible to the community. I ranted a bit about this in my article on breed-specific legislation, but it bears repeating. I rarely if ever see an obviously show-quality dog being walked in town or [...]
Pingback by Ruffly Speaking = Blacksheep Cardigans » The scandal of marketing purebred dogs — August 21, 2009 @ 4:15 am |