anniemac
Well-known member
I read that comment earlier today and it immediately got my ire up . . . .
When I read that I hear ". . . all pet owners must be idiots and cannot possibly be capable of understanding."
Of course none of us could be concerned enough to want ancestral pedigree health information either. :roll: . . . or possibly have an inkling about ancestor loss coefficients or COI.
It does not matter that there are some pet owners who could care less about this information. Those that do care should not have to jump through hoops to see it.
Are not uninformed pet owners often blamed for some of the ills in the dog world because of the choices they make? You would think, then, it would make sense to embrace any scheme that helped them in informing themselves.
. . . and then some voice wonderment as to the impression that has been made by the breeders that make these kind of comments.:sl*p:
Oreo
Maybe we are not as smart in the usa, but how would you or a potential pet buyer use the information? I am not asking this for or against publication, but being in the usa where I believe not as many people even scan, I wonder how one would use it (non breeders). If something helps researchers, and breeders, by all means publish but wonder how it would be used for pet buyers. Would one first look at a breeder with a certain grade? See that there are puppies and check the publications but do people not still ask for certificates? Would it be a place to start like rod says with our CHIC database but I can't see how something like SM grades be factored in here when we just need people to scan.
The puppy buying guide on this forum is very detailed about what to do and ask for certificates and what if they don't have certificates etc. The other websites margaret mentioned I scanned through I could not see the grading protocol at first but to ask if they have been tested. how would those change if published? I have tried to not post now on this because I'm in the usa, but when a comment is made and taken to mean we are "idiots", I would want to know how pet buyers could benefit. In the usa we have CHIC where we can get some information, but we always want to check age, see certificates etc. For me, (a person who might be called an idiot) I don't understand how the grades would factor in. It is not like a pass fail.
I have been told when asked about having certificates here etc. And how a pet buyer could know without certificates, and was pointed to the puppy buyers guide. So maybe its different in the uk but in the usa, I think we have a far way to go and would not be understood here.
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