Tom, I don't feel that it was the pet owners who were responsible for the original vote, but I do feel that it will be the pet owners who will vote it down if it comes up for a vote again. Laura's post explained the whys of it very well, so I won't go into it again. What I will say is that at this point in time, I don't personally know a single breeder who is not in favor or reversing that stand.....but I know many pet owners who would vote against it and for exactly the reasons that Laura stated. Some of them are on this list and are very good friends of mine. We discuss the issue, but our feelings about it are very different. The pet owner feels that the health and quality of the breed will deteriorate if breeders are allowed to use AKC only dogs. I have great respect for them, but they aren't the ones turning over every stone in a four state area trying to dig up a good quality, fully tested dual registered boy with a heart healthy pedigree. I personally would resent every effort to tie in health testing with the acceptance of AKC dogs. Why? Because I would rather use a one year old boy who has two 7 year old heart clear parents and four living, healthy grandparents than a 2.5 year old boy with two five year old heart clear parents. Given the choice that is the one I would make. So shoot me. We want to be free to make the choices for our kennel that make the most sense to us. Myra
>From: Tom Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] IIA 3/not a new amendment >Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:08:15 -0700 > >Judy, Thanks very much for the information about the 1994 vote. It was >certainly unfortunate that the ballot issue was whether or not to turn over >the stud book rather than whether or not to be the parent club. However it >is clear that with only 119 yes votes the majority of breeders in CKCSC at >the time voted against turning over the stud book. There were over 300 >registered kennel affixes at the time. And many kennels have at leat two >voting members. So at the very least there was a potential of 400 plus >votes from breeders. Pretty clearly half of the membership did not vote. >So it is time to lay to rest the myth that pet owners were responsible for >the outcome. These are obviously important issues since a vote of the CKCSC >membership appears slowly to be coming about on opening the book for AKC >dogs. Tom Faulkner > >========================================================= >"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 2002 by its original author. Myra Savant Gardengate Cavaliers _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ========================================================= "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 2002 by its original author.
