Several months ago several of us worked out a "phone tree" to ask members of CKCSC USA what their opinion of the CKCSC vs AKC issue was. I don't know what Laura Lang's eventual conclusion was, but the vast majority of the people that I called said they would vote against it. In my humble opinion (and it really is humble, folks) if it is presented to the membership at large, it would be defeated for sure. However, the reasons that people gave me were extremely biased and not based on the facts as I understand them to be. In other words, one of the major concerns was that AKC only breeders don't do any health testing. All of the AKC only people that I personally know up here in the Pacific Northwest are just as concerned about health testing as CKCSC members. We all test to one degree or another up here, and we are not divided along club lines in our concern about the health of the breed. I see as much alteration of the show dogs that are owned by CKCSC members as AKC. (More actually) The AKC only dogs are the same as mine. AKC only people are breeding nice dogs and importing nice dogs just like everyone else. The people who are AKC only breeders don't breed their dogs any younger or any more often than people who dual register. I can't speak for the rest of the US, but here in the Pacific Northwest, we are really a fairly cohesive bunch. There is no division here as to practices nor quality. Myra Savant
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