isnt that just it, perfect, the problem such as sm doesnt affect only dogs from puppy farms, who on here brought their dog from a puppy farm, not many i doubt.
I did make a suggestion to someone who pm'ed me on cav chat, my idea was that if everyone who had a dog with sm, or even cm, to give me the kennel name and the contact detail i would put together a list of defective breeding breeders, and that in turn would mean maybe (but not def) the others had none that we know off thus creating a plausible list. Well i cant print the reply i got, di
Oh I would love to see that reply.
I don't think that such a list would work. Every kennel will have produced cases of SM over the last few years, and often it will not be the breeders fault.
Still, it looks as if your fall from grace has been a very temporary one, you seem to be back as an approved user.
It appears no explanation is going to be given as to what I did to get removed with no warning.
Perhaps it was because I had taken the time to read the health research information over the last few years and I actually knew too many of the answers?
I have often wondered why breeders who have had no interest in health issues, and never attended any of the talks or seminars in the past, have suddenly put themselves forward as health representatives?
There is a theory that sometimes people take positions more to slow progress than to speed it.
I tried to see what Mark ( of Mark & Kelly ) had posted that warranted his expulsion but his last post seems to have been on using a machine for testing when a bitch is ready for mating?
I have never met the gentleman, but I know he has arranged special scanning trips from Devon to Chestergate, & driven the coach. Perhaps he too is a little too interested & pro-active in health matters?
The administrators on CavalierChat always appear so very uncomfortable when any one asks health related questions. Strange really when three of the four moderators are health representatives.
The CC forum is linked to a website that is called
www.cavalierhealth.co.uk
Do go and have a look at what is not there........ no real health information, no summary of Simon Swift's latest talk, where he says MVD rates have not improved in eighteen years, no mention of Clare Rusbridge's site with the invaluable question & answer section.
It does have a lot of articles criticising PDE & denying the real extent of the SM health problem.
That website was set up after the Pedigree Dogs Exposed film was shown, probably with money from the £8,000 PR fund that the fourth moderator helped set up ( The reaction after the film was not to raise money for health research but to launch a worldwide appeal for money to pay for a Public Relations firm )
Another thread has started now, fascinating, but worrying to see that some breeders would prefer to have a dog with a 25% chance of a painful condition, rather than one that has another breed
14 generations back in the pedigree, but is disease free. Remember the Eugenics section in the documentary?
http://www.cavalierhealth.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=940