This film, narrated by Clare Balding, looks at the issues affecting dog health and wellbeing in this country and what is being done in 2012 to help ensure that dog welfare stays at the top of the agenda. ‘Dogs — A Healthy Future’, focuses on the main issues that affect dog health and welfare, including hereditary diseases, issues created by breeding dogs for the way that they look and the problem of cruel puppy farms that breed dogs for profit without regard for their health and welfare. The film explores the steps that have already been taken to address these issues and the need for united action in order to ensure that the progress continues in 2012.
This needs to be presented on the media that reaches most homes..television .
@pinkydibs We’d love to see this on general TV but it’s very difficult to get balanced or good news stories onto national TV, which has to maintain the interest of a very wide audience. However, we’re in discussion with various people who may be interested in spreading the word about the film and more updates will follow about engaging the general public! For now help us to spread the word by Facebooking and tweeting links to the film so that it gets widespread currency online.
this is fantastic, and i agree with everything that the kennel club are trying to issue
Right now it needs to be on prime time TV.
Those Neos are looking good (compared to the Mastini at Crufts 2011… let’s wait and see how they’ll look this year), and I like that Bulldog breeder.
But, at 17:00 – That, I’m afraid, is just a “phantom regulation”.
They will not register a THIRD c-section if the bitch has already had two, UNLESS it is for welfare concerns. So, a breeder can say “But she’ll die if I don’t make this c-section!” …and the KC will register the pups. Nothing changed.
Wonderful. This represents the vision & scope of practical and clinical research that can yield positive effects for years. The Kennel Club canine health research division is truly a positive example for all clubs. Special thanks to the club & especially the academics that dedicated their life’s work to the health of our dogs.
Such a good video – needs wider covererage.
Absolutley needs wider coverage. People must see this piece of propoganda where most of the people talking are reading from a script and it shows. The Kennel Club caused the problems in the first place and this just smacks of ‘oh, look at us, we care about dogs’. Yet they insisted on flatter noses for pug type dogs, tail docking, etc. I would like to know what took the Kennel Club so long to realise that the breed standard needed changing for the sake of the dog’s health and not it’s looks?
Wonderful video with a great message. The KC’s common-sense responses to all of the troubles surrounding dogs align perfectly with what I’ve been saying all along. Good work, and all the dogs thank you, too.
Excellently produced. Relevant issues. Too long (27 + minutes) and too late (after Pedigree Dogs Exposed) to have much effect on the important dog buying target group, I fear. The other target group, the breeders, unfortunalely will go on as if nothing has happened, like they have done for the past 150 years.
@jazz2012 Personally I think the idea of laying down a blueprint or a ‘standard’ of what a dog should look like is criminally insane. Why are people so hell bent of keeping certain traits?
I understand the KC have refused to appear on the follow up to ‘Pedigree dogs exposed’. Why? since they’ve just spent 27:53 telling me how great they are? Youre right about one thing. They neglect to mention that they are the ones that have caused all these problems in the first place.
@TeifiValley123 Absolutely. I worked for an animal organisation and most other groups, if not all, are utterly opposed to the KC’s ideals and ideas. The expose about pedigree dogs was not doctored to make the KC look bad, it was a truthful piece of work and unlike the KC the programme makers had nothing to gain or lose from it. If the KC felt it was biased you’d think they’d be knocking down the door of the BBC to get their point across and to show how they’ve changed.
Brilliant video, it needs to be put on the BBC to reach a wider audience.
Excellent information. The AKC needs to follow suit :-)
It’s good to see that the KC are trying to make changes. Perhaps the KC is now ready to see that it is time they not only recorded the birth of dogs but also their death and cause of death.It is only with this information that breeders will really be aware of the scale and depth of the health problems that their breed is experiencing.
Why don’t the KC disassociate themselves completely from breeders/judges that don’t make welfare their priority? Why haven’t they been able to forge a successful working relationship with the RSPCA? Why do they recommend getting a puppy from one of their accredited breeders as a solution to puppy farming, what about getting a rescue puppy as another valid solution? Why do they have offices next to the Ritz, why not move to cheaper offices in order to invest in genuine solutions to poor welfare?
@brendy59 So does the CKC!
If only the AKC would get on board with Health testing and verifiable test results too.. but until they start to require Health Testing and ethical breeding practices and stop supporting and registering anything and everything including Puppy Mill & pet shops dogs from untested parents- the AKC is a worthless and even harmful organization!
This is what the American Kennel Club MUST strive for!