Sorry, List,
This post was meant for another all breed list which is discussing this
problem. I apologize to Kim and others for this mistake.
Suze
"Susan A. Schlenger" wrote:
>
> 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
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