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Proactive Ethics & Breeding
Are you an ethical breeder?? Are you ethical in what you show and
honest about it?
Vickie
Haywood
TheDogPress April 2006 -
I have a tendency to ask loaded questions, not to slay the dragon
but to make it a better mythical creature. Since I have
poodles and everyone knows it, lets start there because it is the
most artificial breed (in my opinion) and I can speak about them
with some authority. For example, Poodles come in 3 sizes:
Toy:
a max of 10 inches
Minis: a max of 15 inches
Standards: a minimum of 21
inches to be competitive.
Now in Toys it is difficult to
get the "look" at less than 9 inches so we have about 1 inch to work
with. It is a near impossibility to breed within that limit.
Many Toys finish at over 10 inches.
Minis? Not unusual to finish a
13 1/2 inch mini but not common. Most are at 14 and the best ones
are at 15 and (my opinion) difficult to breed, again with about 1
and 1/2 inches to play with and be competitive.
Standards: In modern Times I know of no one who will dare
to show a standard less than 20 inches and only personally know of a
few who have finished at 21 inches - the average is 22 /23 for a
bitch and 25/26 for a dog. There have been some exceptions - a dog
named Alekai Zuess finished at 30” and it was a case of the judges
either loved him or put him at the end of the line.
Bear in mind that the
standard says each size should look like the other, the win
should go to the diminutive when all other things are equal.
Any solid color at the skin is permissible. Let’s admit
our short comings. Poodles are an enhanced breed, artificial in
nearly every way. We snip and clip and put on this product and
that product and color here and there, and Yes Virginia we use
WIGS (gasp) and hairspray (gasp) and stuff them to get them fat
enough to get the round ribcage and drop in the chest. Then we
put them on a tread mill to get the beautiful muscles in their
naked butt, cut their toenails extra short to keep feet (or make
them), and lets face it ,we can change the entire look of the
dog with a pair of scissors. Don’t like the eye? Just put the
top knot in tighter. Don’t like the color? Dye it. (horrors you
say? Sally's sells a LOT of "water works.") Whites stained and
dingy? Bleach it. Go to any national or regional and sit
in the stands and you can see for yourself that the vast
majority of blacks look like they came out of the very same
bottle.
Not enough hair? Well just sit around the grooming area and
watch the hair pieces come out after show time. Don't blame me..
I didn’t invent them!!! But I sure as hell know how to use them
and have had to learn all the tricks of the trade.
Why? Because I am an owner handler who has to compete every
weekend with the top pros in the nation and If my grooming is
not as good as theirs, if my conditioning is not as good as
theirs, if my dog is not BETTER than theirs .. I have no chance
of winning!
I used to be a purist (years and years ago) but now all I ask is
that every one play the game the same way... and be honest about
it.
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If your dog is
dyed and I ask to breed to it, just tell me.
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If your dog
finished and is over, fine by me, just tell me.
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If your dog has a
white patch or white toes... fine, just tell me.
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If you had the
curled tail fixed, ok by me -just tell me.
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If you had dental
work done...well ok, then TELL ME!!!
Don't let it be a surprise
when I breed to your fine dog, and all my puppies come out with
patches of another color, have squirrel tails and all grow to be
16 inches tall, and have stained or crooked teeth. Don't let it
be a surprise when my 9 year old standard has toe cancer, is
auto immune thyroid and sterile, bloats and has seizures.
(Fortunately he doesn't have SA or VWD, addisons or cushings,
not ...yet.) Can I be SURE that the dogs in the pedigree I breed
to are REALLY the dogs I believe I AM breeding to?
A very, very well known handler years ago said to me...it is an
artificial breed but under it all is still a dog, flesh and body
that the judges can feel and see move. The rest is top dressing;
we fool the eye into seeing what we want it to see.
Should we Slay the Dragon or can we make changes that will bring
us back to where we need to be? I believe it is worth the
effort, but lets clean our own house before we kill the very
dogs we love so much first.
I believe it will take a huge outpouring of show people to make
the changes that need to be made, or a huge bunch of us to
leave, even for a little while, and play in other venues. Maybe
the powers that be will then get the idea that THEY are not the
AKC.
The AKC is US, like the founding fathers who were dedicated dog
men one and all.
In the 1960's when I was but a girl and sat outside the show
rings watching beautiful poodles strut around, I would always
look down at my obedience poodle, who was a brilliant but ugly
bitch, and I would dream of the day I would own and breed
poodles that were brilliant and beautiful, warm and loving, that
could perform circus routines, or sit in an old lady’s lap, that
could warm a sick child’s heart, or win a BIS.
I have taken the lives of thousands of unwanted dogs and cats as
an animal control officer, I have taught thousands of people in
obedience classes on how to have better pets. I have bred a few
good dogs, accomplished many goals; but the one thing that
eludes me is getting people to see that their destiny in the dog
world is in their own hands.
This is an age where you cannot be
apathetic. You must be proactive in the world of
politics. Get involved; get informed; GET BUSY. Clean your own
house, so we can all clean the dog world.
VICKIE HAYWOOD, The Other Side of The Fence for TheDogPress
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