Shocking! And here's how YOU can help stop this abuse
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by Jemima Harrison
5M ago
Kennel Club registered - Britishbullz Fat Jack Last year, the UK Kennel Club registered over 60,000 Bulldog, French Bulldog and Pug puppies  and fewer than five per cent of these puppies were born to parents whose breathing had been tested before they were bred. This despite respiratory issues being their number one health issue.  Today, Bulldogs, Frenchies and Pugs make up one in five of all the dogs registered with the Kennel Club - an increase from one in fifty in 2005. Thousands more untested dogs are bred outside of the Kennel Club. There is, currently, an a ..read more
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Crufts 2022 - Day 1: scrutiny, scruples and a Neapolitan treat
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by Jemima Harrison
2y ago
(Click to enlarge) Eleven years ago, I wrote a post featuring the Neapolitan Mastiffs at Crufts 2011. It highlighted the dogs in the ring that year - so horrendous that I headlined it "A Parade of Mutants".  The dog top-left above won Best of Breed that year - just heartbreaking. And the dog on the right won Best of Breed at Crufts today - Tommaso Goffredo's Taro.  It's a world of difference, isn't it? The dog on the right isn't perfect but oh boy he was sound on the move. The picture captures that this dog is comfortable in his own body; not the painfully-hunched bag o ..read more
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Crippled GSD wins Best of Breed at French Championship Show
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by Jemima Harrison
2y ago
Last month, the above GSD bitch won Best of Breed at the delayed 2020 French Championship in Dijon, France. Am sure she's a lovely dog but, oh boy, that backend ?  Perhaps it's just a bad photograph? Below is the same dog being put through her paces in a working test in August this year - truly shocking for two reasons: one the degree of disability that is evident for all to see and, two, for the embarrassingly bad performance. Is there no one in France doing anything about this ..read more
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TV REVIEW: Britain's Puppy Boom: Counting the Cost
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by Jemima Harrison
2y ago
Personally, I think the BBC should have been brave and gone with the original title for this programme - which was: "Will My Puppies Make Me Rich?"  When the programme was announced last November (see here), the dog world lost its shit. The two young women who secured the commission as part of a pitching competition were bombarded with abuse online. Even the RSPCA, which should have known better, called the programme "irresponsible".   The BBC was forced to put out a statement condemning the abuse and confirming their commitment to producing a well-researched, responsible programme ..read more
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Chihuahuas: shocking new research finds they are full of holes (no really!)
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by Jemima Harrison
3y ago
You're looking at a CT scan of a Chihuahua featured in a newly published study, from researchers at the Universities of Helsinki and Surrey. The red circles mark where there are holes in the skull exposing the brain underneath and it raises big and urgent questions about the breeding of the world's smallest dog.  According to a pre-print of a linked paper from the same authors, more than 90% of Chihuahuas have what are known as persistent fontanelles - holes along the suture lines of the skull where the skull has not fused properly. It looks like something out of a horror film ..read more
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Colonel David Hancock MBE - I salute you
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by Jemima Harrison
3y ago
I was so sad to hear of the passing of cynologist/writer/canine historian Colonel David Hancock MBE last weekend. I met him at his home in Oxfordshire in early 2008 where we interviewed him for Pedigree Dogs Exposed.   I remember climbing up the stairs to his office which was lined floor to ceiling with dog books, many very rare, and feeling acute library-envy. I am pleased to read that his collection - along with the books and over 700 articles he wrote himself - is now safe with the Kennel Club.  See also here. I am not sure there's anyone in the world who knew more about do ..read more
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The dogs that never sleep
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by Jemima Harrison
3y ago
On Friday, the Royal Society of Medicine hosted a webinar exploring the parallels between obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in humans and brachycephalic obstructed airway syndrome (BOAS) in flat-faced dogs. It was eye-opening - and profoundly sad.  "I was almost in tears listening to the extent of suffering in dogs with BOAS," admits Dr Felicity Mehendale who co-hosted the webinar.  Likewise, the spelling out of the debilitating, sometimes life-threatening, consequences of obstructed breathing in humans left me feeling sick about the likely cost to the dogs. That some brachycephalic do ..read more
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National Purebred Dog Day celebrates a crossbreed
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by Jemima Harrison
4y ago
Finn is, in fact, a third generation descendent of the excellent Irish Red + White outcross programme which crossed working Irish Setters in to the IRWS. In the screamier reaches of the purebred world where far more distant outcrosses induce outrage, this makes Finn a mongrel. National Purebred Dog Day, which describes individual dog breeds as "museum pieces with a pulse" claims it celebrates diversity.... ... but of course it means the diversity of looks between breeds, not within-breed genetic diversity. In truth the IRWS outcross initiative, supported by the Irish Kennel ..read more
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Dutch ban short-nosed dogs prompting fears that other countries could follow
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by Jemima Harrison
4y ago
@Dier&Recht The story broke last week that the breeding in the Netherlands of Bulldogs and other short-faced breeds (and crossbreeds) had been banned, prompting outrage from some dog-lovers - and a standing ovation from others. To many in the show-world, the news seems to have come as a massive shock. New Facebook groups and petitions have sprung up overnight in the hope of preventing a slippery-slope spread to other countries. Dozens of international breed clubs have issued statements of condemnation and on Wednesday, the FCI (the umbrella group for many overseas kennel clubs ..read more
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EXCLUSIVE: Bulldog breeders attack grieving owner of Supervet's "Molly".
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by Jemima Harrison
4y ago
Millions of viewers tuned in to the hit Channel 4 show The Supervet on 30th January - and many wept when five month-old Bulldog puppy, Molly, was put to sleep.  Molly had been rushed to Fitzpatrick Referrals in Surrey because she had been hit by a car. But it wasn't the accident that led to her death - it was what orthopaedic specialist Professor Neil Fitzpatrick referred to as "unscrupulous" breeding. Molly had a fractured leg that needed surgery - but this was fixable. The problem was that scans revealed Molly was also  suffering from crippling underlying genetic issues - including sever ..read more
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