[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Rose Colored Glasses
- From: Barbara Galasso <uwish@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Kathaleen Strong <inflight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:34:34 -0400
Very well said Kathaleen............bravo for you to stand up for your
convictions...........refreshing. Thanks for sharing your opinion.
Best wishes, Barbara Galasso
Kathaleen Strong wrote:
>Lew:
>
>People don't want to know what skeletons are in their closets or are wearing
>their rose colored glasses believing they don't have any. When you read the
>pedigrees of many dogs produced today, it's no wonder we're losing people
>left right and center.
>
>When you closely linebreed on an animal's pedigree who is a known carrier
>for a serious problem - well... what exactly should we all this? Artful
>breeding or pure stupidity?
>
>I mean let's just get totally realistic... if Animal X has a known problem
>for dead tails and rear problems... do you breed his/her progeny to their
>3/4 uncles, take those resulting progeny and breed them to a 1st cousin?
>All related to the same common denominators? And then expect that the
>progeny have rears and tails that work??? I mean good grief???
>
>Worst now is... Where does someone go to find clean blood? Answer - there
>is no clean blood and the Waters have been so muddied up by stud dog owners
>in search of their ego fix and the all mighty dollar, Handlers with too much
>power who not only support their owners by promoting animals who are
>carriers of these problems but who also use their considerable influence on
>their clients to breed to these dogs followed by the Sheeple we call
>breeders who really haven't taken the time to actually study what is a good
>dog, what form for function means, and just willy nilly breed their bitches
>to dogs without realizing the consequences, that there are fewer, and fewer
>choices of where to go. Add that to when these "litters" are born, these
>"breeders" get their problems --- no one hears about them... and the vicious
>cycle is reborn.
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>For those of us breeders who are honest about what problems we've
>encountered - our animals are "labeled" yet... animals with very SIMILAR
>pedigrees, (half brothers or half sisters or aunts or uncles, fathers),
>owned by people who don't say anything.... have line-ups of people wanting
>to breed to their dogs or buy their puppies.
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>As I said when I started... People don't want to know what skeletons are in
>their closets or they are wearing their rose colored glasses believing they
>don't have any. Until this changes - the breed is doomed to an ever
>spiraling decline due to people waking up and leaving; and for those who
>stay, genetically faulty/unhealthy dogs and bitches producing ever
>genetically weakened progeny.
>
>Kathaleen
>
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>Kathaleen Strong - Inflight Kennels Reg'd - Breeders of:
>1995 US GV, AOE-1996 US GVx, Jubilee ROM
>http://inflight.cnc.net
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