Margaret C
Well-known member
Education is a huge issue and that needs to be a key role of the breed clubs/KCs/individual breeders -- it is directly connected to the remit of being a caretaker of the breed as a whole.
I too believe that education is key to saving our breed. It seems to me that the education of breeders that are not members of a cavalier club, and the information that will help buyers to make sensible choices, has to come from the Kennel Club.
The breed clubs are in the best position to put pressure on the KC to send out health information with registration papers and make advice about responsible breeders easily available to pet owners.
In the light of this belief I have again agreed to be nominated for the Cavalier Club committee.
Some of you will remember that I was nominated last year, and as nobody else stood as a candidate I was elected unopposed. The officers and some of the committee members then threatened to resign and I withdrew my nomination rather than see the Cavalier Club destroyed.
Earlier this year I made the Cavalier Club officers aware that I would probably stand for the committee again, and told them that if they did not want me back on the committee it was their responsibility to nominate enough credible candidates to beat me in a vote of the whole membership.
I will repeat what I said then.......... if I am elected either because I am voted on by the membership, or because there is no other candidates, I will not again be blackmailed into withdrawing.
If the committee again decides to resign in the face of threats of more SGMs, then that is their decision, and any harm done to the Club will be their responsibility.