Stand Up And Protest! Ankc Theft Of Working Titles

[Yesmaam]

This is on another post but I thought I would copy it and start a new post to highlight what is going on.

Received it on an email the other day too.

DEAR CANINE FRIENDS

PLEASE WRITE TO THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL KENNEL CLUB http://www.ankc.org.au/Contact-Us.aspx TO PROTEST THEIR ROGUE ACTION INTENDED TO FALSIFY AUSTRALIAN PEDIGREES BY OMISSION. THE ANKC HAS ANNOUNCED (SEE BELOW) IT WILL NO LONGER BE RECORDING IPO / SCHUTZHUND TITLES, AS WELL AS THAT IT WILL BE REMOVING FROM AUSTRALIAN PEDIGREES LEGITIMATE IPO / SCHUTZHUND TITLES EARNED IN OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED FCI COMPETITIONS, WHICH BELONG TO THE DOGS THAT EARNED THEM AND AS SUCH ARE PART AND PARCEL OF OUR AUSTRALIAN PEDIGREES.

ANKC HAS A FORMAL AGREEMENT WITH FCI THAT OBLIGES KENNEL ORGANIZATIONS TO RECOGNIZE EACH OTHERS TITLES, WHICH INCLUDES IPO / SCHUTZHUND / VPG TITLES.

THE ANKC HAS NOT ENGAGED IN ANY PROPER CONSULTATION PROCESS AND THEIR ACTION ARE JEOPARDIZING THE INTERNATIONAL STANDING OF OUR AUSTRALIAN PEDIGREES BY THEIR STEPPING ONTO THIS VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE.

RESIST THIS DEVALUATION OF OUR AUSTRALIAN DOGS AND THEIR PEDIGREES BY THIS BLATANT THEFT THEIR OFFICIAL WORKING TITLES!

1) WRITE TO THE FCI TO MAKE THEM AWARE OF THIS BREACH AND TO REGISTER YOUR PROTEST OF THIS DISSIDENT ACTION BY THE ANKC

Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI)

General Secretariat of the FCI http://www.fci.be/

Place Albert 1er,

B-6530 THUIN

BELGIUM

Tél : +32 71 59.12.38 Tel: +32 71 59.12.38

Fax : +32 71 59.22.29 Fax: +32 71 59.22.29

2) WRITE TO THE ANKC TO PROTEST. TAKE YOUR COMPLAINT FURTHER AND WRITE TO YOUR STATE KC BRANCH. WRITE TO DOGS VICTORIA.

3) WRITE TO INTERNATIONAL BREED ORGANISATIONS TO PROTEST AUSTRALIA REFUSING TO ACCEPT FCI IPO / SCHH TITLES ON DOGS IMPORTED TO AUSTRALIA, AS IS THEIR OBLIGATION TO FCI TO DO. Some suggestions below.

Welt-union der Vereine fuer Deutsche Schaeferhunde(WUSV) e.V. Praesident: Wolfgang Henke Steinerne Furt 71

86167 Augsburg

Fax 0821 74002-9915

Telefon 0821 74002-15

Internet: www.wusv.de

E-Mail : [email protected]

Vereine fuer Deutsche Schaeferhunde (SV) e.V. Hauptgeschaeftstelle - http://www.schaeferhunde.de/

Administration FMBB (World Federation Belgian Shepherd Dogs) http://www.fmbb.net/contact.php Geert Bouckaert

Tempelierstraat 4

8470 Gistel

Belgium

Geschäftsstelle des ADRK

Dr. Manfred Herrmann

32429 Minden

Südring 18 Germany

Telefon 0049-571-504040

Telefax 0049-571-5040444

Email [email protected]

4) WRITE TO THE EMAIL FORUMS TO TELL OTHERS TO GET ACTIVE. The Dogzonline forum already has a thread going - join the forum and register a public protest. http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?showtopic=202587

STOP THIS PIRACY OF OUR REGISTRY!

Some Background behind this ruling:

The decision to remove all IPO / SchH titles from the ANKC has been made without discussion with the breed clubs concerned or taking into consideration the rights of the owners of pedigreed working dogs in this country, where IPO / Schutzhund titles are a part of the dog's official history as well as enhancing the value of those animals.

The ANKC is acting like a rogue institution, riding rough shod over our right to have accurate pedigrees and ignoring it's pact of mutual obligation it has with FCI. Namely to recognise each others pedigrees and titles, which includes IPO (Schutzhund / VPG) titles earned at legitimate trials in all FCI countries holding these trials.

There can be little doubt this high handed, scandalous action by the ANKC has come about due to pressure applied by the German Shepherd Dog Council of Australia, which has engaged itself in pursuing their rabid anti-Schutzhund / IPO agenda via a variety of agencies and forums over many years. (Much to the detriment of their own breed as well as to the wider working dog population per se.) Thanks to A small group of self serving "fundamentalists" within the hierarchy of the German Shepherd Dog fraternity, every other working dog breed has had the pay the price of having a highly valuable breed test and DOG sport ignorantly demonised as being "attack training" and actively discriminated against by all manner of unfair machinations and deceits on the part of the GSDCA hierarchy.

Now they add insult to injury by forcing us all to put up their minority self interests first, dictating we must accept having legitimately earned FCI titles in our dog's pedigrees simply wiped out by a keystroke - as if those dogs had never passed those trials and those official titles had never existed!

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? WHO EXACTLY IS RUNNING THE KENNEL CLUB IN THIS COUNTRY? AND FOR WHOSE BENEFIT?

I can answer in part the latter - it is for the political benefit of the GSDCA. The GSDCA have moved heaven and earth to destroy the sport of Schutzhund / IPO in this country, merely in order to claim immunity from the World Union of German Shepherd Dogs Charter that requires all their member organizations to support the sport and encourage members to participate. Effectively, the GSDCA hierarchy fear that by having Schutzhund training available to their members in Australia, the WUSV (World Union of GSDs) will also require their Organization to include a SV/WUSV (Schutzhund based) character test in Australian breed surveys as well as a requirment for all adult dogs rated Excellent at their Main Breed Show. Instead of the GSDCA resigning from WUSV because they cleaarly don't wish to follow the terms of the WUSV Charter, they instead set out to misuse their authority and position within ANKC and other bureaucracies to trash the sport in this country, generating collateral damage for everyone else involved while about it.

GSDCV has moles working inside Dogs Victoria and within the Victorian (DPI) Department of Primary Industries. They are to blame for the instigation of legislation in Victoria that effectively criminalizes ordinary dog owners who unfortunately get caught "hetzing" their dog with an object in their hand (i.e.: this includes tennis balls). Unfortunately, the uniquely worded DPI legislation, that was intended to disable participation in Schutzhund / IPO (an internationally accredited and recognised dogsport) in Victoria, has now blown out to encompass just anyone in that state training a dog using manually held motivational tools.

Ludicrous though it sounds, the ANKC assault on the integrity of our Australian pedigrees has come about merely because of the short sighted, self serving agenda of a group of influential fanatics within the GSDCA hierarchy. In their enthusiasm to target IPO / Schutzhund for destruction they've not only impinged on the right of other people to enjoy their chosen international dogsport without fear or favour, but in the process they've managed to shoot themselves in the foot - caught up in the web of their own lies when the Victorian legislation was expanded to place restrictions on all Schutzhund titled imports into that state, including the Schutzhund-titled imports of high profile German Shepherd Dog officials and breeders in that state.

The comedy of errors that followed had the GSDCV forced to open secret negotiations with the Victorian DPI to request a special exemption for their own Schutzhund titled GSD show imports. These negotiations were successful for their own breed, but they didn't waste time worrying about leaving all the other working breeds out in the cold.

Mean spirited people tend to reap what they sow, and despite a secretly negotiated exemption for their own dogs, Schutzhund / IPO imports in Victoria still need be muzzled when in public - not a good look for the Victorian show rings.

After this blow back, the GSDCA are in further damage control. Becauase lo and Behold, now the ANKC is riding to their rescue, to pull the GSDCV's dirty irons out of the fire! Without any prior consultation with those being affected, and by a stroke of the pen, the ANKC are now blithely informing us all they intend to remove all IPO / Schutzhund titles from the pedigrees of ALL the working breeds in the country! What they don't say is we are all being expected to pay for the consequences of the GSDCA's despicable, unsporting behaviour by plotting against the sport in this country.

Because of their troublemaking we all now are expected to wear having incomplete and inaccurate pedigree records! Just to accommodate the difficulties the Victorian GSDC got themselves into. As without any official IPO / Schutzhund titles recorded on Australian pedigrees, the GSDCV owners can now pretend their Schutzhund-titled imports haven't really got these titles at all! Thus shiftily avoid their responsibility to the breed and to the muzzle regulation in Victoria, part of a discrimatory law they'd worked hard to get up in that state in the hope of inflicting mortal damage upon rival working dog organizations which are providing access to the sport to Australian trainers.

Don't be bullied into giving away your entitlements. Get up and speak out for accurate pedigrees!

http://www.dogsvictoria.org.au/Content.asp?ID=246

Edited August 17, 2010 by Yesmaam

[Staranais]

Will definitely write to the FCI this week. I would be gutted if I moved to Aussie in the future, and my girl lost all the schutzhund & KNPV titles from her pedigree. They're part of her breed history, & her ancestors worked hard to achieve them.

[Staranais]

Bump!

[oakway]

So you are saying that the dog is only of any value as long it has letter's after it's name.

Rubbish.

A good dog is a good dog no matter what.

[Nekhbet]

how are you going to prove achievement if the pedigree has all working titles stripped off. Would you breed with a dog that has a 5 generation pedigree of just dogs with no titles at all?

Then wipe all show, agility, obedience etc titles off too. Just to even the playing field. Then by your logic the dogs should speak for themselves. Beleive it or not titles have an important value in the breeding choices of working animals. Just a pity few here in Australia understand this concept, that some dogs have their skills ranked in higher importance then their beauty.

I know my bitch too will have just dogs. None are show dogs or have show titles most are KNVP dogs. And that then proves what - that I have a 5 generation pedigree of dogs that have technically achieved nothing.

Edited August 18, 2010 by Nekhbet

[Jacquiboss&scoop]

I will be writing a few letters myself ,

owning a working breed part of my selection process is to confirm that working titles are held

within the lines in the last three generations on both sides , parents, grand parents and great grandparents.

I want to see all titles earned by the ancestors of my dog , this includes herding and IPO / Schutzhund titles to show the line still has the confirmation and temp to do the job they were breed for and the work I will require from them

I like them to have Confirmation CH status to be clear in the lines as well , as well but I know the standard , and the working titles are what make the choice for me , IE for an Aussie breed parent it must have either TD UDX CDX , CH is an optional extra

Are we going to remove Gundog titles as well ? sometime in the future ? do our working dogs just have to be a pretty face ?

[Nekhbet]

The way we're going and the reluctance of international breeders to send their lines down here will mean we wont HAVE any working dogs. Well we'll have technically museum pieces - looks like it but has little of the original function.