As soon as I read this article, I though there are two sides to every story. The press love having a go at the KC lately, and I've got no doubt that a huge amount of spin was placed on this story.

Just to clarify for some people, being lame and being loose are not the same things! Loose is a term used when a puppy is growing and it's muscles are still loose and haven't tightened up to hold everything together. This means that movement can be poor for a little while, until the muscles tighten. The trained eye can tell the difference between a puppy that is loose compared to a pup that has bad movement due to poor construction. Lame is when a dog is limping due to injury or sometimes because of poor construction.

If the dog really was 5 months old, it should not have been at Crufts anyway. Maybe this was the reason it was asked to leave? Who knows, makes for a good anti-KC report though. Poor old lady takes her cutsie baby puppy out for a nice day, when a mean vet and the horrible KC throw her out onto the streets.

Ahh apparently this old lady has five dogs of her own including the pup, and recently was out biking? so not the frail lady that was first potrayed IMO, although out biking at that age is fantastic I think.

Mo

I play bowls and can assure you that there are some very fit 76 year olds around, and can also assure you they are not all very nice!It just makes for dramatic effect , so what if shes 76, big deal, I know nothing about Crufts, no offence to anyone but it just has no interest for me, if they held it at the bottom of my garden I wouldn't bother to go, but it does seem that a 5 month old pup must be too young to take part in some thing like this, and if as others have said there is an age limit, then wouldn't that be why the dog was withdrawn?

apparently the lady in question does not want to go public on this anymore and has refused to answer any email's. here is what has been said so far.


GSD Pedigree Database

Oh well Robert Killick is very good at KC bashing not so good at getting his facts straight.
This would have been great for his column

The Kennel Club on book of face.

Excluded from the ring,,,,,,,,,,NOT the venue!!

Mo that looks like an American AKC type, certainly nothing you are likely to see here unless the people who like the English type import one as some have.

In her Quote she said it was "possibly" lame! thats how i read it

Just a quick thing on the age thing - for dogs taking part in displays, and in discover dogs there is no limit - I've taken a young vallhund of just under 5 months to discover dogs, and I know of someone that took 2 16 week old lowchens one year.