Rod Russell says: ".....they have no legitimate business wistfully gazing over the fence at the forbidden fruit....."
Oh goodness, I have missed the way you have with words, because I am certainly guilty of gazing over the fence at Patty's lovely little 8 year old fully tested heart clear boy. I spend a lot of time at that fence. However, Rod....some of us really do test our breeding stock and do the best we can to find dogs with longetivity in their pedigrees. Believe or not, some of us have test results for heart, eyes, patellae and hips on every dog we breed. We are being kept from pursuing what we honestly believe to be the best possible outcome for our puppies by this ruling. Certainly I see your reasoning if none of us were testing, and if none of the AKC breeders out in the pasture were testing either, but our wistful gazing is restricted to older boys with hard copies of their test results sitting on my desk. (We own his son) Why must those of us who do test be punished for the ones that you know about who don't? Myra >From: Rod Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] Mandatory Health Testing and the AKC Vote >Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:03:18 -0700 > >Judy Russell wrote: > > > CKCSC,USA is a private club and, as such, can set whatever standards it > > wants as long as it applies them evenly to all the MEMBERS. > >Gerri Dueringer wrote: > > > Rod, I agree with that wholeheartedly. But just because the CKCSC, USA >is a > > private club and can set whatever standards it wants doesn't mean that >it's > > right to do so. Just because the Club can set standards for AKC dogs >that we > > don't mandate of our own dogs doesn't make it ethical or right. If the >club > > made it a policy that no lawyers were allowed as members, would you >think > > that was ok too?? >============== >Well, Gerri, as you can see, I did not write what you quoted; Judy >Russell did. But in answer to your question, Judy was not writing about >discriminating between the vocations of potential membership >applicants. She was writing about applying the same rules to all >members, which, or course, is also what the club's lawyer was quoted as >telling the board at its March meeting. I disagree with your statement >that setting more stringent standards for AKC-only inter-breedings would >not be "ethical or right". There is nothing unethical or wrong about >such discriminations. For example, the CKCSC,USA does not allow >Cavaliers registered only with ANY domestic USA registry to >inter-breed. If the club decided to permit inter-breedings with >AKC-only Cavaliers but not with those of any other domestic registry, by >your logic, that would not be ethical or right, either. > >Personally, I would prefer that the CKCSC,USA, to quote Judy's >statement, "Get its own house in order BEFORE opening the barn doors to >AKC-only dogs", by imposing those breeding restrictions on the existent >CKCSC,USA-registered Cavaliers before ever considering allowing any >AKC-only Cavalier to inter-breed. However, if our club is to allow any >breeding with AKC-only Cavaliers, it should be limited to those which >have a scientifically recognized chance of improving the health of >future generations of CKCSC Cavaliers, and not be open to any AKC-only >dog which any CKCSC breeder may want to breed her stock to. Until the >CKCSC,USA breeders start following the MVD protocol (now over four years >old and largely ignored) and other genetic testing protocols (for hips, >patellas, eyes, particularly) with their own stock, they have no >legitimate business wistfully gazing over the fence at the forbidden >fruit. Presently, as this debate has indicated thus far, many CKCSC >breeders are adverse to following scientifically recognized >health-conscious breeding practices, using excuses such as not wanting >to even sending original medical records to the Health Registry (for >fear of losing them -- in four years and with over a thousand of such >records, none have been lost) or not submitting X-rays to OFA. By their >excuses and behaviors thus far, they have indicated they are not ready >for the unfettered opening of those barn doors. > >Rod Russell >Orlando, Florida USA > >========================================================= >"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. 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