Hello, Alida,
Much of this is historic, you'll have to forgive us the disagreement
and violent agreement to which we have been part this past week. I must
say, with due respect, that you clearly don't know some of this history.
And, I, for one am not bringing it up yet again.
I certainly wouldn't make any analogies between breeding dogs and such
horror as warfare, poverty, death and tragedy; I see absolutely no
similarity.
However, I heartily suggest the great change of subject and on to
Christmas recipes!
Suze (who promises to share a recipe so long as no one asks for her
lasagne <G>)
Alida Margolin wrote:
> > As far as the concerns expressed re perceptions of "advertising testing,"
> well, in buyers (like any subset of the population, of which breeders are
> another subset), there's a range... One would have to be grossly na�ve or
> gravely ignorant to believe (PRIOR to a conversation with a responsible
> breeder) that if a breeder publicly states s/he tests, the puppies are
> "guaranteed" to be healthy. ( Some breeders state it prior to being asked,
> some don't; I'm not talking about those who don't test at all.) I have
> NEVER gotten the impression, from this list or from personal conversations,
> that a breeder who publicly promotes the value of testing is doing so to
> imply ANY sort of "guarantee," nor to denigrate the health-probabilities of
> anyone else's puppies. Whether or not you publicize your testing policy,
> it's part of YOUR job (each individual breeder) to clarify this to every
> prospective buyer, in an educative, non-defensive and non-condescending way.
> Parts of this thread have been informative. Much of it has been reminiscent
> of the travesty in Afghanistan - as soon as the Taliban wasn't a threat,
> members of the Northern Alliance started behaving just like the Taliban
> toward whoever they decided deserved it. I would think that the love for
> Cavaliers and devotion to the betterment of the breed would mean everyone
> here is on the same "side," and that it wouldn't be necessary to start
> attacking each other (even though that's a lot easier to do than attacking
> MVD).
> Alida
>
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