Really upsetting to look at Pedigree Dogs Exposed - The Blog most recent blog Time to get tough. The blog shows photos (below) the Kennel Club has used as the ideal depiction of the French Bulldog, Boston Terrier, English Bulldog and Pug in its new edition (2017) of its Illustrated Breed Standards. Notice all the dogs they depict as ideal type for their breed have severe Stenotic nares and Jemima Harrison says, "Dogs are as near-as-damn-it obligate nose breathers. And even if they can supplement by mouth-breathing when they are awake, they are unable to do so when they are asleep, meaning thousands of these dogs live lives of interrupted sleep as they have to wake up in order to not asphyxiate.
Study after study has shown that these dogs pay the price for not being able to pull in a decent lungful of air and that starts with the nostrils. These pictures are all the proof you need that the Kennel Club is not taking this issue seriously; that at its very core the KC is paying nothing more than lip-service to the demands for reform by the veterinary profession and animal welfare campaigners. At one of the first meetings of the Brachycephalic Breeds Working Group, then KC Chairman Steve Dean expressly said that he didn't want "changing the breed standards" to be at the top of everyone's list of actions that could be taken. And indeed, it hasn't been." So for me these photos are hard evidence that the Kennel Club is lying when they say on their website home page, "We are the UK’s largest organisation dedicated to protecting and promoting the health and welfare of all dogs." It should say, "The Kennel Club are the largest organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the torture breeding of dogs."
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