The Kennel Club

[david2363 42]

Anyone on here who knows me knws I have a soft spot for the Bedlington terrier - not the white fluffy show type pretender, but the stronger and more usefull old non registered fashioned working type.

I have had so called pure Bedlingtons and it's no secret I have no problem OWNING AND WORKING Bedlington types with a bit of Lakie in their breeding.

Now I am for my sins a founder member of the Working Bedlington site, and there are undoubtedly some sound lads on there with very similar ideals to myself when it comes to type, quarry etc etc.

There is also a faction who want to maintain KC registration, and breed so called "pure" Bedlingtons (there is now no such thing, but thats another story).

At our anual show and get together, we have got a KC Bedlington judge to judge (John Holden) who has to be fair supported the working Bedlington to a fashion.

But I say he is a representative and executive member of an orginisation who has all but destroyed almost any working breed it takes under it's wing, and for me it's a bridge too far, so I have reluctantly decided to give the show a miss.

 

I just wondered what the consesnsus of opinion on this would be from the wider working terrier fraternity. Do you guys think the KC has anything to offer the working terrier?

[OldNog 432]

the only thing the KC has to offer to working terrier is a fast track to ruin

Edited April 19, 2011 by OldNog

[Cleanspade 3,322]

i would say the KC. HAS LITTLE TO OFFER THE WORKING TERRIER WORLD.

[hack 301]

the only thing the KC has to offer to working terrier is a fast track to ruin

 

 

couldnt have put it better

[uno 62]

kc fk no

[skinner 348]

kc feck all working breeds up

[bradaz2009 9]

It wouldn't feck it up but the money that comes with it would so i have to say no

[morton 5,368]

A KC judge should never be allowed to enter the same ring as a working terrier,mind you the way the terriers,that are winning working shows,are progressing a KC judge will have more in common with them.

[liam mc 18]

Id go the other way and say the working dog men could show kc how to improve and develop a breed without destroying it

[JPTfellterrier 65]

hell no...I wont by any product accosiated with them, pedigree or crufts as i do not like the ethics behind anything the show dog world stands for these days

[TOPPER 1,809]

dave you know my feelings on the kennel club they should be in court for crimes against canines

[fat man 4,741]

Is there such a thing as a working terrier show anymore,apart from the westmeath hound lurcher..terrier show last year the rest were crap.Dogs been walked around a ring that i would bet have never done a days graft in there lives.I remember the first show in ballinlough maybe 18 to 20 year ago,when NUTTAL JUDGED i was asked to put a terrier back in the trailer because he had signs of work on him,and that was by a well known terrier man fron the north,so just goes to show how long the working terrier world is f****d up by the show ponies with there kc shite.

[Elmer Fudd 2011 39]

you are all bang on let the working terriers stop with the lads that work them and the KC keep ther dogs because they fcuked all the breeds up they have had ther hands on

Edited April 20, 2011 by Elmer Fudd 2011

[Joh of Arc 1]

Yeah, showing the dogs wrecks them in the name of "fashion".

That's what I love about Jack Russells, not being part of a kennel club keeps them pure®.

[david2363 42]

Interesting to see that the one person who voted so far in favour of the KC didn't bother to post to explain why.