I've been shocked today to hear from a fellow herp enthusiast that she watched PDE as part of her University course.   It was good to know they recognised it as a very biased program against the KC, especially in light of the allegations re linebreeding being the cause of all that ails dogs. Thankfully this group at least understand the benefits of linebreeding and of course that continuous out crossing is more dangerous as it hides recessive disease.  I was also very relieved to hear that one of her tutors had actually been a student of Prof Jeff Sampson as he really wasn't treated fairly by the producers and made to appear incompetent, not the lecturer this particular tutor remembers!

I do worry however just how much influence this particular program is having within our education system, in light of my experiences with university tutors using XYY as an example of males who are born to kill, rape etc the general population.  The reality is far from it with these assumptions are based on a single study conduction amongst the tall prison population in Edinburgh without controls ie tall males within the general populations resulting in 1 genetisit within the UK maintaining a 100% termination rate.

Do you feel that the KC needs to open its membership up to all who register a pedigree dog in a bid to install enforcable sanctions against those unscrupulous individuals who breed without thought for the breed or their progeny?

> Do you feel that the KC needs to open its membership up to all who register a pedigree dog in a bid to install enforcable sanctions against those unscrupulous individuals who breed without thought for the breed or their progeny?

Even if the KC did open up membership, (which in it's own way it has over recent years), it still would not be able control any breeder to do their bidding as they have no legal powers.

I am currently doing an Animal Management course, and we have not watched PDE as part of our course (yet!) but I wouldn't be surprised if we do watch it. Or at least they might get hold of it for future years. My breeding and genetics lecturer spouts a load of rubbish about pedigree dogs and inbreeding. According to her, Labradoodles are the newest recognised breed, Labrador Retrievers are a cross between Labradors and Golden Retrievers, and the most worrying; you can make loads of money out of breeding dogs!
All this being said to a bunch of impressionable 17-18 year olds. It's really worrying

My daughter is doing a similar course and has had more than 1 run in with her lecturer's about genetics and inbreeding being the cause of all diseases - luckily she's 23 so has a bit of life experience behind her plus a cousin who's XYY so knows a bit about genetic diseases etc.  Won't even go into the lecture they gave on pedigree dogs and how the show world is going to see the end of any breed recognisable dogs, bless daughter has shown, poms, schips and GSD's when we had them so again could challenge them on that one too.