[Dailydrool] European Dog Shows

[Beverly Szaton]

This is from a friend of mine who breeds, exhibits and handles purebred
dogs. They do not happen to be Bassets but this gives you an idea what the
"dog activist" groups are aiming for here in this country. If you think it
doesn't affect us, you are wrong because if these groups have their way
there will eventually be no dogs, certainly no purebreds. Kiss your
beautiful Basset Hound goodbye because they are mentioned in another post
as being a "tortured" breed.
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Dog shows in germany for this weekend got canceled this weekend due to
state veteranian rulings about "tortured" breed bans.

Not just the docking and ear crop issues.  Then expanded to prohibit brach
nose breeds. it bans whiskers trims.   New is the missing teeth and needing
vet x-ray of hips and luxating patellar.

Quote from German pom breeder:::

Angel Sophia Nogga Animal rights extremists are pushing their agenda
further. If you want to show a pom in Germany now you have to do a yearly
x-ray under anesthesia for a patella examination, then only the P1 teeth
can be missing otherwise you can't enter the show ground. Then a specialist
has to fill out a form that the dog doesn't suffer from "torture breed
characteristics" and this will cost you more money. All documents are being
controlled by the state veterinary department before you can enter the show
ground. So even if you paid the entry, did all tests, filled out all forms
and paid around 500-1000€, they can refuse your dog to be shown if the
state vet thinks that your dogs tail is too short for example. And in
Germany you need to have 2× shows to get a breeding licence for your dog!
So the whole ordeal will cost around 3000€ before you can even breed your
dog/bitch. It's a disaster! The breed clubs and cynologists should have
done more to prevent this from happening! It was foreseeable and started
20-30 years ago with the ban of cropping/docking, then in some countries
they banned "dangerous breeds" and for example in the Netherlands you can't
breed certain brachycephalic breeds. Now in Germany they banned the use of
crates, transport boxes during dog shows, ancient breeds without fur are
banned as well now because they're considered to be a "torture breed".
Certain show leads are banned, chokers are banned, you can't cut the
whiskers of a dog as it's considered to be an amputation! So shaved breeds
like poodles can't be sheared in the face. Hairsprays and all kinds of
products are forbidden, tables with an arm or loop are forbidden and now
they even want to tell us how to show our dogs? Soon there will be no shows
in central Europe, then it will spread to countries outside the EU,
America, Canada, South America, Asia and it will be the end for all of us.
The situation is very serious and I'm not joking. I'm sure I forgot half of
the other ridiculous rules animal rights activists have enforced over the
years. Fact is, they are more than us and they have money, power and
influence. Meanwhile our kennel clubs have only excuses and other things to
do, they are literally sleeping and waiting until cynology will be history.
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