& are your dogs fully health tested & from fully health tested parents ???

What have rodents(Cavvies)got to do with dogs BTW ?

Sickening! What a life of torture some of those poor dogs had Criminal!
All I can say is there must be some very egotistical, twisted people around.

thats my point though, she could of just quite as easily showed a couple of breeders that do all the health tests possible to produce healthy dogs.

Doesn't it make your blood boil that a breeder could be so unscrupulous?

Someone send me the original paper and I'll give my opinion on how good the piece of research was r.e. stats, cohort size and conclusions!

Absolutely!

Just a thought about the KCs inbreeding moves- if your a puppy farmer and being KC registered adds to the value of the puppies you sell are you as an unscrupulous money making venture going to A) Stop breeding from a bitch after registering 4 litters? Or B) Get rid of that bitch and move onto another?

I can't see puppy farmers packing up their businesses so surely that means there will be more unregistered puppies (or the ones they say are registered but it's not to the KC) or horrendously more dumped unwanted brood bitches?

But that really wasn't the point of the programme now was it?

I think they were fairer with showing the dalmatian 'responsible' breeder and insaying there are good breeders out there. Hopefully more people will be asking what health test have been done before they get a puppy...

I agree though a good follow up to this programme would be 'the designer crossbreed myth'. But it would need to be a different reporter and programme makers... This one needs to keep pressure on the same spot to stem the bleeding... Someone else will have to stary patching up elsewhere.

I agree with this. I thought there was far too much old footage shown from the first PDE and not enough footage on the changes (or lack of) that have been made and are in the process of being made.

PDE2 was less shocking than its predecessor, and was more balanced, and there were one or two very interesting points made, but I was basically left disappointed that it was just a rehash of the first PDE.

Do you realise that the Cesky Terrier was not developed in the UK ? So the KC has had no imput & TBH using the number of dogs that Frantisek Horak did is what the vast majority of breeds by a sole breeder(like the Lucas terrier, Plummer terrier)are always going to have a very high COI in the first 100 years or so of development to fix type( & ability). To get dogs that do look the same with the same abilities needs a lot of in breeding, this breed was developed to do a job & be easy to keep easily groomed. Whether or not he was right isn't up to me to decide he did dead & gone & the dogs that exist today are a healthy breed when compared to some more genetically deverse breeds.

Frantisek Horak was BTW a geneticist !