Category: Opinion
Why do people love to hate dog breeders?
Hatred of breeders runs very deep, doesn’t it? Unlike racism or other forms of discrimination, it is often treated as a kind of public service. Crufts tends to bring it all bubbling to the surface each year, and the anger ramps up again. This has been a particularly polarising year. But I stand firm in…
Circular Logic & the IHA
You know what’s interesting? If we calmly point out that the Innate Health Assessment (IHA) may be too blunt a tool and should have been sanity-tested on healthy dogs as well as obviously exaggerated ones — just to make sure it doesn’t produce false fails — we’re immediately accused of all sorts of things. Apparently we’re using “media privilege” to unfairly defend small…
Gaslighting: Definitely Not Corgi Approved.
Over the past week many responsible breeders have voiced concerns about the proposed Innate Health Assessment (IHA) tool. Instead of engaging with those concerns, some commentators have dismissed them as “hysterical headlines,” “scaremongering,” or “misinformation.” That response misses the point entirely. The people raising these concerns are not anonymous trolls on the internet. They are experienced breeders who have spent…
