KENNEL CLUB DELIVERS BLOW TO PUPPY FARMERS

[*Lassie*]

KENNEL CLUB DELIVERS BLOW TO PUPPY FARMERS As it announces Accredited Breeder Scheme developments
The Kennel Club has warned puppy buyers to be aware of the difference between responsible breeders and puppy farmers and has announced significant developments to its Accredited Breeder Scheme, which will help to further secure the scheme’s place as a kite-mark of quality in the dog breeding world and to edge puppy farmers out of business.

The Kennel Club’s Accredited Breeder Scheme now has over 3,000 members and to ensure that the Kennel Club’s high standards for dog breeding are maintained, the Kennel Club will appoint a network of Regional Breeder Advisors to visit and assess local AB premises across the country. In addition, the Kennel Club will reward those who are setting an exemplary benchmark for good breeding practice, within the scheme, by awarding Accredited Breeder of Excellence titles.

Accredited Breeders have all agreed to sign up to Kennel Club standards for responsible breeding, which include following guidelines about maximum litter sizes, ensuring puppies are always seen with their mothers and giving their dogs the recommended health tests for their breed. Puppy farmers, by contrast, are unscrupulous breeders who remain outside of the scheme and who breed dogs purely for profit and without regard for their dogs’ health and welfare.

These steps, which will further set apart Accredited Breeders from less responsible breeders, follows the Kennel Club’s call on the government, earlier in the month, to give it the statutory powers to make the scheme’s requirements compulsory throughout the country. This means that those who have not officially confirmed their willingness to follow the health standards set by the Kennel Club would be unable to produce or sell puppies within the law.

Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club spokesperson, said: “As part of its programme of continual improvement and following feedback from scheme members and supportive Breed Clubs the Kennel Club has announced some important developments to its Accredited Breeder Scheme. These will help to ensure that the scheme is recognised nationally as a bastion of quality and excellence in dog breeding and will further help the public to distinguish between good and bad breeders, so that they can make responsible choices when they are buying a dog.

“We recently asked the government for the statutory powers to enforce our Accredited Breeder Scheme nationally, which would mean that puppy farmers who do not subscribe to our high standards will be forced to show their hand and would be breeding and selling their puppies outside of the law.
“Even without these statutory powers these announcements today mean that puppy buyers can be assured, now more than ever, that Accredited Breeders are following standards that guarantee that a puppy’s health and welfare is their number one priority.

“Our advice to anybody thinking of buying a puppy is to go to a Kennel Club Accredited Breeder. They should certainly never go to a pet shop, whose stock may come from puppy farmers, or buy from somebody who is selling from neutral territory, such as a service station, where the puppies are not seen in their home environment.”

Under the new steps announced by the Kennel Club breed clubs will also be invited to nominate breed mentors, as expert advisors to educate both novice breeders and puppy buyers about their breed.

People will be able to find out more about the Accredited Breeder Scheme and how to buy a puppy at Discover Dogs, which takes place at Earls Court on 8 and 9 November. http://www.discoverdogs. org.uk

ENDS
28th October 2008

Can’t see it helping much 🙁

[Foxisle_crazy]

Where’s the blow?  ::)  this is no good  🙁

[*Lassie*]

[quote author=Foxisle_crazy link=topic=12875.msg247619#msg247619 date=1225215577]
Where’s the blow?  ::)  this is no good  🙁
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Well they do say bulls*** baffles brains ;D
would be nice if all their statements were in plain english and a lot shorter, if they actually meant they were doing something it would be even better ::)

[GSPmad]

what on earth are the guidelines about maximum litter sizes?  ::) do they say to the bitch – now remember, you must not ovulate any more than 10 eggs at most….  :-X

[Foxisle_crazy]

Because it dawned on them recently BYB breed a bitch twice in a year and register the puppies as the offspring of another bitch who is on her one litter of the year, to get more money per litter  >:(

[GSPmad]

but they are allowed to reg more than one litter a year per bitch anyway…. i know because i have had this argument with the KC….

[kizkiznobite]

well…am in  >:D mode..

pedigree papers thread anyone ? >:D

[Foxisle_crazy]

Yeah and this bit
[quote author=*Lassie* link=topic=12875.msg247613#msg247613 date=1225215148]
Accredited Breeders have all agreed to sign up to Kennel Club standards for responsible breeding, which include following guidelines about maximum litter sizes, ensuring puppies are always seen with their mothers and giving their dogs the recommended health tests for their breed.
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What standards were they going by before this?  Being in the ABS and all ???

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