Thanks for the info Przemek,
It's sad, but Przemek is right. I have been looking at the FCI info today, and it does seem that they only keep a register of international judges and the standards of the member breeds. They have little or nothing to do with their members rulings and appear to have no standing with the KC, who are not affiliated to the FCI.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the FCI. It's just frustrating that they cannot help.
The question is, where do we go from here, Paul?
The trouble with the UK is that we take everything lying down. We let the government walk all over us, and on the occassions when we have stood up to them we haven't truthfully made any leeway. They just make it SEEM like we have!
The Kennel Club is a huge agency to fight, but DEFRA is even harder - being a governmental force. We need an angle on which to fight the system of hypocracry that surrounds the Czechoslovakian wolfdog in this country. Is there another canine agency in Europe that will help us in our fight?
The petition is going well, when I checked earlier we had over 100 signatures on it. But to get anywhere in the UK with this breed, it seems probable that we will have to prove that this breed is a dog, not a wolf / cross AKA United States style. It seems to me that the UK authorities have had a kind of knee jerk reaction to the Czech and Saarloos breeds because they have a higher wolf content than standard dog breeds. But they are still canines!
The big problem here is convincing the UK agencies that these dogs are plainly and simply that,... not some monster breed that will terrorise the UK.
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