Yep - like most things in life, a lot of it boils down to money.

Yes I do---you are so busy saying things don't happen and saying it is all made up and there are no problems that you can't hear or see anything different.

I have a life, my dogs and your dogs have a life----unfortunately that can't be said for the boxers who died or the pugs and cavvies who are struggling and in pain.

rune

What about all other dog activities... its not just the show world that has an element of "trophy hunters" agility/working obedience, not to mention cats/horses, ect , ect.

People have animals for all sorts of reasons, and as people will see them differently, to those who have pets first to those who see them as a means to an end.

Regards the idiot vet..........when was th elast time he actually practiced as one

He was in the programmer years ago, and from what I can remember he became a TV b rated celeb.(as many of the other did). working on everything and anything from DIY to cars???

no, and thats why i health tested before i bred

Again, think £££££££!!!

Exactly. The breeders featured in this programme were putting ££££'s before health

Totally agree.

So 555 dogs is good representative random sample of Cavaliers in the UK ? or was is 555 from dogs whose owners had put them forward ? or 555 dogs(like mine)selected from the blood donors & subsequently found to have SM ? or 555 from dogs MRI scanned ?

"There are lies, damn lies & statistics" in other words staistics depending on the source material can be manipulated & used to prove two theories that are poles apart.

Until the breed clubs bring in compulsory MRI scanning of ALL Cavaliers no one knows the % of dogs affected. My Roodee(from 2 generations of over 30 months scanned normal dogs)will be scanned, but not until he is 5 & he will never be used at stud, the scan will be for his breeder & this mother's breeder(who both have been scanning their dogs BEFORE the first program-just as my Loukar was scanned 5 years before the original program at the request of his father's breeder/owner & not the member of this forum who bred him & sold his brother as a stud dog knowing that Loukar & his father had SM)

I wonder how viable it would be to scrap the KC altogether and each breed should have its own closed registry.

after reading this whole thread.

i think the program was more balanced than the last one, but it still "show bashed" slightly, and the vet really annoyed me, he just hyped up and tarred every pedigree dog with the same brush as all unhealthy, all crippled etc, when we all know there are some very healthy, gorgeous pedigree dogs out there.

i think naming and shaming the boxer breeders was a good thing, ive looked at their sites before when looking at boxer breeders, id certainly never buy one from them now, and hope alot of people dont buy from them either.

as for the squishy face breeds (couldnt remember how to spell the actual word ) there are breeders out there who dont breed for such an exaggerated face, its clear on their sites, some breeders now breed for less wrinkle, i know there is a bulldog breeder who does, and he still shows, and wins, so it does show people are making the right move in the right direction.

i hope, because puppy farms were mentioned, that she is going to do a program on BYB and things to balance it out more. its not just pedigree dogs that need sorting.