I assume that this is Katy (the post was not signed). I must mention that people should not judge all Cavaliers by the photos that they see in the yearbooks. I have yet to place an ad in the new club yearbook and it has been many years since I put an ad in the old club yearbook.
Furthermore, not all CKCSC owned dogs look like the ads in their yearbook and the same is the case for the ACKCSC owned dogs. Each yearbook has a relatively small sampling of the many dogs out there and to judge all by a sample of a few causes erroneous conclusions. It is similar to polling. A political poll of Berkeley, CA residents would present a very different result than a poll of the residents of Columbia, South Carolina. I have been a member of the CKCSC from 1981 to 1995 and a member of the ACKCSC from 1995 to date. My dogs do not fit in the type that you describe. I suspect that many others do not fit these stereotypes either. There will always be a segment in any club that forms a breeding nucleus. They like a certain look, pool resources by sharing studs and generally work together. These people and their dogs appear to have more influence in the breed than they actually have because they advertise and promote their bloodlines. To say that there is an American type and an English type just doesn't make sense when there is so much importing of breeding stock from England that, for many years, I would have had a hard time finding an American dog that had American-bred parents, much less a full three generation pedigree that was all American-bred. If you do not believe me, just do a little pedigree research on all the show winners since the CKCSC started giving points at shows. I think that you will find that most of the major winners have imported parents or are imported themselves. Things have changed somewhat and more breeders are trying to breed their own winners instead of importing them, but the English dogs are still too prominent in American pedigrees for me to think that there is a separate type. By the way, what you characterize as a difference of American or English or old club versus new club is probably more due to kennel type. For example, the Amantra type is different from a Homerbrent or a Maxholt (don't see those anymore, but they were striking and almost always Tri's). Kindrum has a definite "look". This is not the same as national type. A good illustration of type differences from one country to another is found in Seranne's book "Joy of breeding your own show dog" where she shows photos comparing English type Yorkies with American type Yorkies. I don't think that Cavaliers are at that point. All the best, Susan Cochran Katy's message below: -------------------------------------------- Also, I find it rather funny (but that's not the proper word I'm looking for really) that ALMOST all the pedigrees in the ACKSCS are the SAME! Same type and same pedigree! I'll also step out on a limb here and say that MOST have Tartan and Celtics in their first 3 generations. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
