So what is your point?

I actually find your remark upsetting and unfeeling when it's known I have a terminally ill Boxer

I would have liked to have heard from Walker Miller (Walkon boxers, Vet and Breed Council member) ..
What is he going to do if someone brings a sick boxer in to his practise and it has kidney issues ...

& if they did they could be taken to court for restricting the"trade"of the breeders & they would lose.

They have in fact still had to register mother/son, brother/sister, father/daughter after being taken to court(I know of one should registration). The vast majority of breeders would never breed so closely nowadays, but go back to the good old days(pre kennel club)& it was a very common practice & it was how the breeds were developed in the first place.

The same goes for any open registry, they would have to change to a members only registry & then they could set their own rules & regulation & make health testing compulsory.

The Kennel Club & the ISDS are the only canine registry that run health testing schemes & because the ISDS registry is a members only closed registry they can refuse to register dogs that do not fulfill their rules

In short the likely answer is no (judging by the look of the dogs), which is sort of my point. I thought this programme was much better than the last one, but bits of information were still left out in order to strengthen the point JH was wanting to make. The Cesky COI of 45% is another point: stating a breed has a COI of 45% is shocking on it's own, but when put into the perspective of the fact the breed is endangered (and therefore a COI of 45% may be difficult to avoid, the only other possible option would be extinction perhaps?) then it all comes into perspective doesn't it? But JH left this fact out because without it the point she was making appeared so much more severe.

This is the issue I have with JH: leaving out important information in order to lead people to believe something which actually isn't correct.

Aside from that I thought the programme was interesting. Not necessarily factually correct, but interesting. I guess I just don't like tabloid journalists.

. The Cesky COI of 45% is another point: stating a breed has a COI of 45% is shocking on it's own, but when put into the perspective of the fact the breed is endangered (and therefore a COI of 45% may be difficult to avoid, the only other possible option would be extinction perhaps?) then it all comes into perspective doesn't it?....................

Ah right you have explained it better

Mark Evans was involved in the Pet Rescue series - maybe before some folks time on the forum, here's a wee link you may or may not find interesting

http://www.markevans.co.uk/mark-evan...on-animals.php

If you cant aviod a 45% COI then it sounds like the breed is heading towards extinction anyways that imo is worse than just an isolated dog in a breed with many dogs - you are saying that most likely the majority of dogs in that breed with have such a high COI?

If you cant aviod a 45% COI then it sounds like the breed is heading towards extinction anyways that imo is worse than just an isolated dog in a breed with many dogs - you are saying that most likely the majority of dogs in that breed with have such a high COI?

First and foremost he is a Vet - perhaps you are lucky and have healthy dogs not affected by hereditary or congenital conditions. He spoke with conviction regarding the health & welfare of pedigree dogs.

Its just a shame the boxer breeder who is also a vet didn't care so much about hereditary issues...

The Cesky is a fairly recent breed & it is this reason that the COI is so high, the first dogs used being one Sealyham dog & two Scottish Terrier bitches & all the Ceskys go back to these three dogs. It's not an endangered breed, it's still on the import register with the KC. The breed didn't exist before 1949.

They are quite a healthy breed & the only possible problem(inherited via the Sealyham)is PLL(Primary Lens Luxation)no cases have been diagnosed in the UK, but the breed club requires all dogs to be tested under the BVA/KC/ISDS scheme