Läste Chairman of the Kennel Clubb, Ronnie Irvings ledare, The Kennel Gazette och tar mig friheten att citerar några stycken:
"In some countries there has for many years been greater intervention from breed societies or from the central kennel authority as to the selection of breeding stock. In recent years there has been increasing pressure on kennel clubs from various quarters, to introduce restrictions and to impose rules on all breeders as to what they can and cannot do.

In some countries dogs and bitches cannot be bred from unless a ‘breed committee;’ has authorised both the use of the dogs involved and the particular combination of dog and bitch requested. In other countries, an increasing number these days, compulsion is applied when it comes to health testing and other screening requirements.

It has always been the view of the Kennel Club that these restrictions should be kept to a minimum. The KC’s view is that as much reliable information as possible should be provided to breeders, so that they themselves may make their own decisions – aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the individual dogs concerned. The view is that the many decisions of individual breeders are likely to be more sensible and less dangerous than the alternative – namely the single decision of a committee of breeders.

We are also aware of certain countries where a limit is being set for the maximum number of registered progeny which any particular stud dog is allowed to produce. And in other countries consideration is being given to stipulating mathematical maximum ‘coefficients of in-breeding’ which are to be allowed for any permitted mating. These moves are being made in order to respond to criticism from outsiders that dogs are too ‘in-bred’. Such views are very often expressed by people who understand very little of the aims and objectives of serious dog breeders. In my view, to lay down crude rules of this kind is insulting to the intelligence of most experienced and responsible dog breeders and can only be described as being the complete antithesis of the whole ethos of what good dog breeding should be all about."
"But for experienced and proven skilful breeders, restrictions on the maximum number of progeny from any one sire and insistence on maximum permitted coefficients of inbreeding are very blunt instruments, They cut right across what we in Britain think is the way to breed animals. It is to be hoped that we in this country never find ourselves having to force established and proven successful breeders to take up that approach to the breeding of pedigree dogs! "
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My hair grow beautifully in the summer, especially the impressive beard that I acquired sometime after my forth months of age. Each evening, when we watch telly, I have my coat brushed and my beard combed. The moustasches, which come (presumably) from heredity and my own excellent metabolism, are not only handsome features which add dignity to my appearance. They are perfect to disguise any interesting objects that one detects during out-doors excursions. Prefereably findings which, in my experience, are Loudly Forbidden. When caught at fait accompli, one then retires to a safe distance, to admire the Language of Granny, who speaks fluent Angry-Saxon on these occasions.





Last evening I sniffed around an euonymus patch behind the barn. One prefered to stay out of sight when being summoned. Granny´s cries of "Viggo" became increasingly frantic, as she imagined the very worst. When discoveded, it is wise to wag one´s tail brightly, to show that it was an Amusing Joke. I hurried indoors, bringing with me a deceased bird, or at least parts of it, well hidden in my beard. Granny was not quite delighted, and interred the remains in the wastebasket.