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AKC and the Irish
Red and White Setters
by Greg Williams
(History
and Intro - amazing details, by Mark R.Atkins
IRWSA request of AKC to refuse to accept IRW pedigrees from FDSB and
UKC:
This
month, AKC board meeting minutes indicated it accepted the Irish Red
and White Setter Association Inc. (IRWSA) as its parent organization
and moved to install the breed into “Miscellaneous Class,” effective
in June 2007. A more important note, however, was a request from
IRWSA that the AKC no longer accepts Irish Red and White setter
pedigrees from the FDSB or UKC.
Whether
the request was prompted by IRWSA or AKC is unknown. What is clear,
however, is that it seems to be an attempt by one or both
organizations to avoid scrutiny of two policies that AKC has
blatantly contradicted with its actions.
As Mark
Atkins pointed out in his article, using the FDSB to disqualify
Snowfire Copper and Snowfire Gold Dust by claiming the dogs are
Irish setters causes a dilemma for AKC. With the Irish setter
outcross dogs acceptable to and fully registered with AKC, Atkins
states that canceling the two dogs in question under those
conditions would ultimately corrupt AKC’s entire Irish setter
registry.
AKC
also disregarded a second policy, the acceptance of UKC
three-generation pedigrees for AKC’s Foundation Stock Service (FSS).
Attempts to follow the policy by submitting the appropriate UKC
certificates were flatly denied.
These
two policies and another concerning the guidelines for FSS
acceptance have been key questions that AKC and IRWSA have not been
able to defend. So, it appears that AKC under the cloak of the
IRWSA’s request can cancel the Irish Red and White setter pedigrees
from the FDSB and cherry-pick the breed out of UKC’s registry. By
doing so, AKC will try to duck the issues by amending those policies
after the fact. It clearly shows to what lengths these two
organizations will go to strong-arm Snowfire owners and breeders,
but even more importantly, how weak their arguments are.
 According to the August board meeting minutes, AKC’s management will
review the request and bring it back to its October board meeting.
Will AKC and IRWSA succeed in their strategy? Probably. Will they do
it behind the backs of the dog public? Not today.
Greg Williams is an IRW owner of one of the progeny
of the dogs that was cancelled. He is a hunter and a field trialer.
Living in Signal Mountain, Tennessee, he has been a writer in one
form or another for many years.
"My dog, Tipper, is registered with UKC and until
recently was an FSS certificate holder."
________________________________________ Handy links:
Introduction and History:
AKC and The Irish Red and White Setters, An Old Breed Whose History and Future is in Jeopardy by Mark Atkins.
AKC
Disregards Policies in Controversial Recognition Procedure of Irish Red and White Setters
AKC and the IRWSA Parent
Club's
website language that owners and breeders say is defamatory and
misleading.
Another Viewpoint regarding the Irish Red and White Setters by Chris
James
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