There goes the neighborhood.
Seriously, when is this society going to ever hold the line on anything anymore? Even the only remaining benched AKC show has to “break down walls” and allow something it has never even had? Never has Obedience been at Westminster, yet now we have agility, with mutts to boot?
Are they serious about maintaining any kind of integrity?
This basically promotes irresponsibility. It condones random breeding, as surely as “get a shelter dog” does, ironically.
Mutts could be allowed in match shows. Official sanctioned shows, not a good idea.
Flame suit on. I know it won’t be popular and I’ll be called all kinds of nasty names, but the old-fashioned view needs to be aired.
The AKC jumped the shark *years* ago with the new “Yellow Paper” registrations for dogs of questionable/fraudulent/unknown parentage.
Not that I had any respect for them before that, with their carte blanche attitude towards puppy mills.
The AKC is all about the money, now; send your money, get your papers, no questions asked.
There are gazillions of agility/obedience matches every year with no “breed restrictions”.
Just more of the usual “everybody is equal and fabulous!” liberal crap.
This “feeeeeeels good” and that’s all that matters.
Mutts are wonderful but not at WKC.
[and if somebody mentions the mythical “hybrid vigor”, I’ll scream]
:)