Oops sorry! I forgot to add my last name.
Doglist is Laura Fisher...
And I just meant that if a new registry was going to be started (and I figure
we were just dreaming and having fun) it would be great to have health checks
required on adults before their offspring was eligible for registration. I
was directing my comment mostly Laura Trunk, piggy backing off her fun idea
of a new registry, and remember her concern (and mine) for health.
I am amazed at the conversation my comment generated days after I wrote it.
Perhaps the idea of mandatory health checks should not be seen as such a "pie
in the sky idea" after all. Maybe with this kind of brainstorming that goes
on on a list like this, a very good, fair, and responsible plan could be
implemented out of all the fun and sometimes wild ideas.
Perhaps those more knowledgeable on the list can fill in the gaps to this,
but I thought I had read that in Sweden they do require health check to be
published for offspring to be registered. The parents do not have to have
passed the health checks and so the choice to breed or not is still with a
breeder, but the public is informed. This approach gets the open health
registry idea that has been talked about on this list off the ground too.
Without someone dictating to breeders which animals should and should not be
breed.
I think what I read also said that they found the peer pressure of this
approach is more effective than dictating which animals should and should not
be bred.
Just food for thought. Feel free to have another opinion or idea. And to
correct my memory or my source as I read this somewhere on the net reaching
MDV.
Laura Fisher
Just a pet owner hoping to be a responsible breeder in the future.
Thanks for letting be hang out on the list and learn.
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