Breeding Dogs in Ireland
The above topic seems to cause very heated debates on many of the forum sites, such as boards, and also the dog only forum sites in Ireland
Opinions vary from,you should only breed your dog as long as there are no dogs left in rescue centres etc, to only breed from dogs that have been tested for breed specific disease, and then to, I have a lovely looking dog and would like to give dog breeding a go.
The Kennel Club in the UK are constantly asking people to check out their website, which is extremely informative about all things dog related.
As per my blog on March 14th re the analysis of Crufts Dog Show 2011, I mentioned that The Kennel Club (London) launched Mate Select at this years show
The following information from The Kennel Club’s web site gives you an overview of what they are trying to achieve firstly in the world of Pedigree Dogs
“In a first of its kind, the Mate Select programme, which will be accessed via the Kennel Club website, will allow both occasional and regular breeders to assess the impact that a proposed mating will have on the genetic diversity within a breed.
As new health screening tools are developed, these will also be incorporated into Mate Select so that, in future, breeders will be able to select mating pairs which will maximise the chances of producing healthy puppies whilst having the optimum impact on the breed’s genetic diversity.
The programme will be available for pedigree dogs, because we know their heritage and therefore have more information available for them, but we hope that information about all other dogs will also be fed into this database. At the moment we have frighteningly little information about diseases within crossbred dogs, but this database will help to throw light on this grey area and help us, therefore, to improve the health of pedigree dogs and crossbreeds alike”
This is just another step in the right direction that The Kennel Club in the UK are taking on the road to assisting us dog owners when it comes to planning the next generation of healthy happy pedigree dogs
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