[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: WUSV & International community
- From: "Rachel Anderson" <gsdk9rat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:40:19 -0400
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding and confusion about how the
International community operates, who all the players are and who creates the
mysterious "standard", creates schutzhund rules, show and breed survey
requirements and what power the WUSV and/or SV does/doesn't have.
Here's a page explaining the "mission statement" of the WUSV.
http://www.tp-hundeguide.dk/index/wusv/wusv.htm
link to constitution of WUSV: http://www.schaeferhund.de/11_wusv/index_11.htm
scroll all way down page. click on constitution, then click on English.
One correction...it does hold the International Schutzhund Trial, and there are
several countries that have more than one organization (Britain, Belgium,
Ireland, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan).
The WUSV has a "Breed Standard" all members adhere to, but the WUSV has no
power to create that standard. It is in reality the standard accepted by the
Federale Cynotechnique Internationale (FCI) that the WUSV adheres to.
The WUSV has NO power to make or change official trial rules, or change the
official standard. It is a group of International German Shepherd Dog Clubs
that share similar goals and hold an International level schutzhund trial. They
may have by-laws that all members adhere to, but they cannot create the
official, international FCI standards of breeding or trialing.
The FCI is the International enforcer of Parent Country standards. It includes
80 members and contract partners (one member per country) that each issue their
own pedigrees and train their own judges. The FCI makes sure that the pedigrees
and judges are mutually recognized by all the FCI members.
>From FCI website:
"The F.C.I. shall, in particular, by issuing special regulations, take care of
:
a) mutual recognition of stud books and pedigrees,
b) the mutual recognition of kennel names and the establishment of
international register of kennel names and judges,
c) ...the observance of the breed standards as established by the countries of
origin or countries of patronage of the respective breeds. Those standards
must be recognized by the other countries as far as they are not in
contradiction with the national laws of those countries.
e) defining - after previous approval by the representative of the breed's
country of origin or country of patronage - and publishing the characteristics
of each breed.
The VDH is the "Official" registry from Germany to the FCI, therefore all
standards and all rules for all German originating breeds come through the VDH
to the FCI.
Schutzhund Trial rules can only be changed by the "AZG" in Germany, (Working
Dog Council). The AZG is the group which oversees all breed specific working
dog clubs, and the DHV (DHV is the umbrella organization for seven different
training organizations. It is the only member of the AZG which is not breed
specific and is solely dedicated to training. It has around 100,000 members and
is second in size only to the SV.)
Groups belonging to the AZG include breed clubs such as the Shepherd Club (SV),
Rottweiler Club (ADRK), and Doberman Club (DV), along with nine other breed
clubs. It is not truly a free standing organization, but rather a working
council under the German Kennel Club (VDH).
The AZG is where the competiton rules are actually written, adopted and
amended; not just for schutzhund but for all types of trials and competitions
in Germany. The members of this council are appointed or elected from the
various breed clubs and dog training organizations in Germany. The trial rules
produced by this body are made in the name of and under the authority of the
German Kennel Club, VDH. The SV must follow schutzhund trial rules created here.
The SV cannot change schutzhund trial rules, but they can change schutzhund
trial requirements for SV breed specific conformation showing and breed
surveys, and can require that the only trials they will recognize for the
Sieger show and/or breed surveys, etc. be judged only by judges that are SV
members, also. It is in that regard they may seem to be more powerful than the
DVG (all-breed schutzhund) or even the AZG itself, but they are not, except in
the SV breed specific show ring.
Any change to the WUSV breed standard will only come through the FCI (though
the WUSV is trying to get around that) and the only one who can amend the breed
standard is the German SV, with FCI committee approval. The way the FCI
operates, the country of a breed's origin is the official "Parent Country" for
that breed, and is the standard for the breed. (Like the USA is the country of
origin for the Boston Terrier, so the International Boston terrier community
has adopted the AKC standard for BT's, since the AKC is the official registry
for the USA).
So as influential as the WUSV is, it has no power to make or change breed
standard or trial rules "officially" in the International FCI community EXCEPT
one must chuckle that the president of the SV automatically becomes the
president of the WUSV and that all WUSV governing rules originate from SV.
I did see,in the minutes of a WUSV meeting that they would like to, perhaps,
not have to honor their "Agreement of Co-operation" with FCI rules 100%. They
want to "broaden their options" e.g "Interpret it their way".
Hmmm...guess people are people all 'round the world.
Rachel & the Ark
"The whole question is not only a question of the dog/horse, but quite as
much, if not more so, a question of the fitness of the leader." Max v Stephanitz
Proud to be an American Working Dog Kennel
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