Hello, Caroline,
Actually, in Cavaliers it is worse than that. After the stud book was
opened by AKC and simultaneously closed and after all the rhetoric about
AKC and what it would do to the breed, only very, very few people did
NOT register their dogs AKC; but the CKCSC USA made it a Code of Ethics
violation to breed to AKC-only registered dogs (as opposed to dual
registered dogs or CKCSC, USA only). All this was a bit annoying and
irritating (and from my stance as a lawyer fairly unenforeceable as a
restraint on alienation) but still theoretical; until recently. Those
"dirty dozen" breeders (excoriated by CKCSC USA for leaving the CKCSC to
form the AKC parent club) have some wonderful dogs who have now gotten
underused and are getting infertile. What is worse is that there are
lines underused which have longevity and less history of MVD; which, I
am sure you know, plagues our breed. (GREAT book you wrote on Cavaliers
I thought). And, almost worse, those breeders who had the courage to
leave to become the parent club (and I'm speaking as an "old club"
member!) got so poor treatment for their concern and effort that to this
day some are almost ill from it.
I, for one, consider this so serious that although I am a member of
both clubs, have made up four AKC champions and have one halfway to
CKCSC USA champion with a major win, that I am considering leaving the
"old club". It is a serious shame on us that this happened as both
clubs have much to offer the breed; and this is NOT and has never been
about the dogs, but about the people. "Protecting the breed"
from........what? Puppymills? CKCSC, USA will register ANY Cavalier in
the world (including from Irish puppymills) without provenance, and yet
they refuse to register AKC dogs. This is still so heated an issue that
it cannot be discussed between good friends. The red herring of "breed
protection" really burns my tail as if one reads Elizabeth Spalding's
book on Cavaliers (written in the early years of their importation to
the U.S.) she states that they are recording registration against the
hopes of AKC acceptance. No........things like this are not about the
dogs..........
Sorry to go on, but this is a serious problem in our breed. No matter
which way one turns in terms of clubs, one has a terribly split gene
pool in a breed that desparately needs the diversity.
Suze
> A similar situation exists in Cavaliers and in
> Jack Russells after a great proportion of breeders refused to register their
> dogs with AKC and chose to stay with earlier breed clubs. When they made
> that choice they thought they were safeguarding the breed by not helping it
> become a popular showdog, but in the long run they have simply split the
> breed.
--
Suze at Llawen Cavaliers
"...I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man
to depend simply upon himself." -Isna Ia-wica
"Thought comes before speech" Luther Standing Bear
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