Gr. Ch. Palacegarden Malachy won this year's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. He is a testament to how flexible dog DNA actually is, but he also testament to how bizarrely cruel man actually is to animals he claims to love.
Malachy was the twelfth century Archbishop of Armagh, who had a vision in which he claimed to have seen the identity of the next 112 popes.
For that vision and from some miracles attributed to him, he was canonized as St. Malachy.
Ah but today we have a new Malachy who is ever bit as feted for his achievements at that Medieval Irish bishop.
Of course, I am talking about the 2012 Best in Show winner at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
Malachy’s registered name is Gr. Ch. Palacegarden Malachy, and to honest with you, I am more than somewhat dismayed at this dog’s success.
That’s because contrary to what everyone tells you. Malachy is not a good example of the breed at all– if you bother to read the actual breed standard.
This is what the AKC standard, which he was being judged against, says about coat:
It is a long, coarse-textured, straight, stand-off outer coat, with thick, soft undercoat. The coat forms a noticeable mane on the neck and shoulder area with the coat on the remainder of the body somewhat shorter in length. A long and profuse coat is desirable providing it does not obscure the shape of the body. Long feathering is found on toes, backs of the thighs and forelegs, with longer fringing on the ears and tail.
I guess the breed judges have been ignoring the line about the coat not obscuring the shape of the body for a long time now. I’ve watched a lot of dog shows, and nearly every peke in those shows has looked like something that a very large cat has hawked up.
But because they are judges and they all know better than us, it’s okay to ignore the breed standard when it’s convenient.
Of course, as a dog, he’s a terrible example of his species.
One merely has to watch him walk. Here he is at a dog show in Georgia:
You can tell by the way he uses his walk that he can’t walk.
He wobbles around.
That’s because pekingeses are extreme achondroplastic dwarfs, and unlike virtually every other dwarf breed in existence today, they are required to have a massive head and extremely heavy bone. In essence, they are bulldogs that are trying to be extremely long-haired dachshunds.
And in terms of brachycephaly, they totally surpass the bulldog for extremism.
I noticed that Malachy was carried to the ring last night. He walked very little, and the judge even made a special allowance for him so that he would go last and not have to walk as far as the other dogs when his gait was being judged.
And when he wond Best in Show, he was brought before the cameras panting heavily.
As I’ve noted time and again on this blog, brachycephaly– short muzzles– are extremely deleterious for dogs. The issue they have is that they have about the same amount of soft palate as a normally muzzled dog, but it’s so scrunched up in that short muzzle that the soft palate always obstructs the airways in some fashion. In the worst cases, vets pare back that soft palate under anesthesia to give the dog a relatively unobstructed breathing. This exact procedure was performed on the Best in Show winning peke from 2003. It was attacked as a facelift in the media, but it was actually a procedure to remove some soft palate tissue to open up his airways. A facelift would have been against Kennel Club rules, but this procedure is okay— even if breeding for such short muzzles is the cause for these problems in the first place!
Now, dogs don’t just breathe through their airways. Their airways are their cooling system. When a dog pants, it passes air over the mucus membranes, causing evaporation. This causes the moisture on the mucus membranes to evaporate, which cools the dog.
If you create a dog in which the airways are blocked in any way, its ability to cool itself will be hampered.
And it’s not just the soft palate issue that causes problems for these dogs. Their tracheas are scrunched up in the back of their throats and are often smaller than normal, and their nostrils are often smaller.
All of these issues hamper the dog’s breathing and cooling system.
These dogs cannot live normal lives. They can’t handle any heat, and I’ve actually read that the only time these dogs are as fully oxygenated as they should be is when they go under anesthesia and a breathing tube is placed down their tracheas.
Now, Malachy might have a nice life. He doesn’t have do much, and I’m sure he’s a well-socialized little dog who is loved and cherished.
But he has been bred to meet a breed standard that requires him to have a body that is totally dysfunctional.
If one were to put a collar on a dog that cause its airways to be as restricted as much as peke’s already are, one would likely be in violation of animal cruelty laws.
But because celebrated “ethical” breeders produce these dogs according to “the standard,” no one says a word.
There’s also a lot of cognitive dissonance in Pekingeses because they didn’t always look like this.
This breed was kept in the Forbidden City as the beloved family pets of Chinese royalty. The first of this breed ever to be seen in the West were stolen from the Imperial Summer Palace during the Second Opium War in 1860.
The dogs then were gradually smuggled out of China over the next 30 years.
The dogs from the Second Opium War were the basis for the Goodwood line of Pekingeses in the West. Here are some Goodwood pekes from an 1899 edition of Country Life Illustrated. They don’t look anything like Malachy.
One might find dogs like these in pet lines of Pekingeses, but you’ll never see one winning a major dog show.
These dogs certainly were short-muzzled, but they weren’t so extremely short in the muzzle that they couldn’t breathe or cool themselves effectively.
Now, some may call me to task for attacking established practices in the dog fancy.
I’ll be called an animal rights fanatic– PETA member, a communist, an asshole, whatever.
But I can tell you that celebrating dogs like Malachy in the show ring is doing nothing to stop the real animal rights radicals from totally destroying domestic dog ownership.
That’s because they do have a point here.
Facts are on their side.
Now, you can deny facts all you want, but if the facts show that breeding dogs like these does result in welfare and health problems, your denialism winds up giving the animal rights radicals more ammunition.
And if you are not careful, we will see the passage of laws that will change the breed standards for you.
You don’t want that.
Trust me.
Because Austria is in the process of implementing laws that prevent breeders from breeding certain phenotypes, and these laws don’t paint with a narrow brush at all. They go after any potential conformation issue that might cause even a minor health problem, including blue dilute alopecia. Yes, in Austria, it may soon be illegal to breed blue dobermans.
These laws are called Qualzucht laws. Qualzucht means “torture breeding” in German, and they were passed to prevent breeders from producing dogs with phenotypes that are associated with health and welfare issues.
If dog breeders continue to celebrate dogs like Malachy and deny that there are any problems with producing dogs like him, they will continue to feed the animal rights monster.
I don’t see Malachy as the winner of Westminster. I see Qualzucht as the real winner here.
And it’s a spectacle that should give everyone interested in dogs a certain amount of discomfort.
Because what we’re seeing before us is a great moral travesty, but more and more people are waking up to the very real problems that come from breeding for exaggerated conformation.
It will take much more than that before things really change.
But they will change– whether the fancy realizes it or not.
Goodwood was a very influential kennel in it’s day, and they imported (actually ‘smuggled’) a few dogs straight from Peking back when it was still highly illegal in China to sell dogs of this breed to foreigners.
It’s telling, that this breed was -very- popular in the West up until the 1930s, when the more extreme modern style of ultra-flat face and extreme coat started becoming the norm. Nowadays, if you want a dog that looks like an original-type Pekingese, you’ll have better luck getting a Tibetan Spaniel (a breed which is related to the original Pekingese).
I believe one of those dogs smuggled out of China came in a shipment of Pere David’s deer, which are now extinct in the wild.
Another thing I find interesting, is when you look at ‘well-bred’ examples of breeds back in their earliest years, there is a wider variety of styles that were considered ‘correct’ and CH-worthy than you’d ever see today. It’s true, as most Peke-people say, that there are example of more extreme brachycephaly in individual dogs even in the early 1900s, but also you can find just as many less-extreme dogs that were still considered ‘of proper type’ than would ever be tolerated in the ring today. Most show people will call this ‘improvement’ (a highly subjective term, obviously).
It’s not just the embrace of ‘the more extreme the better’ that has harmed breeds like the Peke, but the lockstep pressure within the show fancy for breeders to conform to only a single stylistic interpretation of the standard as being ‘correct’ and penalizing in the ring anyone who doesn’t keep up with the fashion, even if the standard’s own wording allows for such variation. Pekes are far from the only breed that are an example of that.
sadly, the wins at Westminster are seldom based on a dog fitting the wording of a standard and more based on how much publicity and presentation has been lavished on the dog in the previous year. Even in the BOS presentation, there were dogs that were much sounder and more true to their standard to choose. But that is never the way it works. One has (I think Border Wars discusses this several places) only to see the lists of which breeds go BOS to figure that it really isn’t the dogs being judged to their standard. I noted that AKC has dropped their registration statistics this year and no longer provides their “awards” publication (even electronically). One does wonder if this is because the numbers are drastically down again this year.
I feel that especially this year, this cannot be a statement that is 100% true. Did you not hear/read of all the surprises this year during breed judging? Dogs like London the Standard Poodle, Eira the Wire Fox Terrier, etc did NOT win Best of Breed despite their major wins in other shows. No one I know of even knew about the Canadian black Standard Poodle bitch that won over Ally and London, who were both ranked in the top 10 of all breeds in 2011. And what about last year? The winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was NOT a dog that was heard of as much as some others, a dog I never really saw in ads, etc, and is a beautiful example of her breed nonetheless and deserved the win she earned. I really question this whole “Dog shows have too much politics!” statement that I hear often since sometimes it seems true, but many times does not seem true from what I have observed. It seems to depend on a case by case basis, not on the dog showing world as a whole.
Dog shows are a joke.
Every bit as much a joke as our political system.
Very wealthy people campaign multiple dogs from elite kennels.
Rick Santorum has Foster Friess.
These dog have their own wealthy owners: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/heavy_petting/2012/02/westminster_dog_show_2012_the_big_money_backers_that_dominate_the_show_dog_circuit_.html
They don’t win every time, because then it would look really rigged.
But it is rigged.
Our economic system is the 1 percent vs. the 99 percent. It’s about the same with dogs.
Just watching this footage of the dog left me so mad, the dog can’t breath easily & he’s owners even says they waddle due to their shape & bow legs.
Can he not hear it when he see’s this tape back off silly it sounds that a dog is so called high quaility for within it’s peers due to the fact it waddles has bowed legs, a badly shot jaw, a flat head & a pushed in face that cuts off an easy passage for air. Incredable…….
Other dwarf breeds that used to tolerate bent legs in their standards (Bassets and Dachshunds for example) made them unacceptable in the breed decades ago, because it’s a blatant crippling deformity. I think only the Havanese and Peke clubs tolerate it now (and with Havanese, a U.S. offshoot club calling itself ‘The Havana Silk Dog Association’ separated from the AKC club over that issue, among others).
Roomba in a wig!
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a footstool with eyes. ( or a poofie as we call a footstool here)
No legs , massive amounts of coat, bulging eyes and no nose , they dont have anything going for them at all.
why do breeders have to “improve” breeds, the only improvements should be in health,temperment and construction , otherwise leave them alone
oh and if you want to see how far breeders may take this breed look up eagle pekingese, the aim being a dog that looks like a barn owl
Wow. I’m going to have to do a post on it!
My first assumption, looking at the photos, is that those dogs are a scam built around creative grooming.
Do you have a photo? I couldn’t get access to the website.
they are certainly groomed to look more extreme than they are ( & i really hope that they have photo shopped the pic of them pulling its forhead skin out by about a foot)
But the fact is they are aiming for dogs with extreme nose wrinkle so in a few years it wont be grooming thats making them look that way.
I discovered them when I saw a pet owner from the same area picture on facebook of their peke that had no visable nose, no grooming , just the way it was.
So sad…. and now the attention being focused on the win… more of these dogs will become the latest accessory to the people with more money than brains.
Your 1899 photo caption had it right….they were true beauties.
I just have to share this copy & pasted responce on a forum when someone said they could not help but understand what rescues groups & animal rights people are going on about when a clearly over done example of an already health challanged breed wins BIS.
It is quite obvious that you have no knowledge of the history or purpose of this breed, or even seen an extension of the standard, yet are prepared to air your lack of knowledge to denigrate this breed.
The peke’s history goes back centuries, he was not bred to course, or race, or retrieve, or fight. He was bred to be a companion, he was only allowed to be owned by royalty, he was cared for by eunuchs and slave girls. He is supposed to look exactly as Malachy looks. And he is not overdone. He is a pekinese. The owner did give some explanation of the standard, did you not hear that?
It is really sad for you that you cannot appreciate a wonderful example of a breed you don’t own, and I have to wonder whether that is due to lack of eye.
Most of us don’t need to know anything about pekes to see that this is a very very good dog – whatever breed.
Pedigree registrations declining and animal rights flourishing are certainly not helped by people such as you, who with demonstrably little knowledge are happy to criticize other breeds because you do not like them or understand them. Unfortunately that attitude hinders all breeds, including your own, which will also be for the chop when the chop comes.
If you don’t like purebred dogs, and you obviously don’t, get some other sort of dogs. If you don’t like the way some dogs are bred, or how some dogs look, put your money where your mouth is and do it better yourself. Then come back and tell us all about it.
Pekes are great in the ring with their lovely roll – but not if you have a breed “behind” them.
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Well dear me see it’s ok that the dog can hardley get about because it was never meant for more than a lap & companion dog & to then go on to doubt the poster has an eye for a dog was ironic to say the least. If anyone is lacking anything to do with eyes it was the poster who made this responce, are they blind how is this an honest example of a Peke unchanged in type from the origan centries ago???
Another reply was that you can’t help but notice he’s a quality example of his breed even though Peke’s where not their cup of tea so to speak.
Yep he’s a quality example of the absolute mess some breeders are making of many a breed in my eyes but thats the only type of quality I can see.
Well Sam, they call it ‘improvement’ whenever a dog is radically changed from it’s original type. I guess the Empress of China who wrote the first standard and bred dogs that looked like the ones from 1899, also had a ‘lack of eye’ and didn’t understand what a proper Peke should look like!
Yep, my dad owned a Peke in his old age–they both walked at the same slow pace. I remember Dad telling me that he had to clean the dog’s backside whenever he defecated because the poor little guy didn’t have enough clearance to avoid soiling himself. Yeah, but this is a desirable trait right? I know I’d want to cuddle a dog that smelled like an outhouse–NOT!
The face of the peke in the middle of the 3 pekes reminds of a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel.
It still boggles my mind as to how this peke could have won the Best in Show.
Hey, Sam . . . I’m the one who was attacked for being critical of Malachy on the very active Dogzonline website. If anyone wants to follow, or contribute to, this dialog, please go to:
http://www.dolforums.com.au/topic/234039-best-in-show-at-westminster-usa-v-videos/
What’s the point preaching to the choir? Might as well confront the show devotees on their home turf.
p.s. the inbreeding subject is probably relevant here. See:
http://www.doggiestylish.com/store/blog/2012/02/westminster-rewards-inbreeding/
found high COI on 3 generation pedigree but couldn’t handle the math to go further.
Geez,
This is insanity.
I’m amazed at what kind id Grade A Moron thinks that Pekingese dogs haven’t changed in thousands of years and don’t think this one is a moral travesty on four legs.
Probably the same kind of Grade A Moron that thinks Salukis have been ‘pure’ since 7000 BC.
Jen, I have no idea how to get ahold of ou in a different way. As you are a dolforum member and for some reason they will not allow me to join I would appreciate some help.
There is currently a thread about an Alberta baby that was killed. On it is the insinuation the baby was unattended. Please correct this information as it is not the case. I would hate to learn the family has seen this gossip.
Jen,
You do very well I have followed a few threads you voiced a sensible ipion on to only have the same out arguments put back to you on. It’s refreashing to here an opinion thats not mind washed by showing & so called breed mentors.
I give up contributing the these types of dog forums as in there eyes my spelling & grammer, breed chose & personal opinions matter more than what I have actually wittnessed or been a part of myself. Yep my spelling is bad but I make no apolagy I know animals not the written word.
I will countinue reading their rubbish though & it’s posters like you who make it bearable at least & i think your very brave & correct in taking them on on their own turf so to speak.
On the DOL thread, ‘Abiline’ is the OP of the post I linked to about cross-breeding on dogforums. The one who was ‘appauled’ that the AKC ‘allows’ people to cross-breed.
Not a lot of deep thinking going on there.
Sam, plenty of us have spelling problems (especially as we age) and what I call “keyboard dyslexia.” If you’re concerned about losing credibility because of spelling, do what I often do: compose your response off-line and run it thru spell check. Then copy and paste it to the thread–it’ll make you look like a keyboard genius ;-)
From Sam’s cut and paste from the other board above.
‘The owner did give some explanation of the standard, did you not hear that? ‘
I heard the long list of desirable deformities he named off, like bowed legs and undershot jaw.
The plot that show people have lost is no one (but them) cares about what their show standard says or what they think the breed looked like in 3000bc. What matters is what that dog/breed is like today, measure by todays welfare standards.
On this same discussion group I saw this post.
‘I still remember watching my friends Peke eat and put his whole face in the bowl, snuffling around like a piglet as he walked in circles around the bowl only to come up with his whole face covered with food’. Followed by an icon of laughing person.
Humans are the more intelligent species, right?
I would like to explore this notion of cute disabled dogs.
1. Humans have a flat face and their mouth is set back into the head. If you take your own head and try to eat with out using your hands guess what, you would put your whole face in the bowl, snuffling around like a piglet as you moved in circles around the bowl only to come up with you whole face covered with food. That is why we developed with the use of hands to put food into our mouths which is set well into our flat stupid faces. If a human was unable to use his arms and hands to eat we would call him disabled and we would not think if funny watch them stick their head in a bowl, smearing food all over their faces as they try to eat.
2. Dogs do not have hands. Dogs (in nature) also do not have flat faces, their muzzles/mouths extend well out from their face, so they can use their muzzle to can grasp their food and get it into their mouths. They also have a good strong bite to tear off chunks of food and to that chew food. If a dog has a muzzle so short it had to smear food all over it’s face in order to attempt to get that food into it’s mouth so it can eat, we have gone way off the rails with that dog/or breed. This dog is disabled by deliberate selection for an unnatural deformed face, mouth and nose. This is not cute nor funny to watch.
3. The time for freak shows is over. We must look at what we are doing to these dogs. We must educate ourselves. I know that the person who said this does not intend to say that it is funny to watch a dog with a deliberately very deformed face, nose and mouth to feed it’s self, she/he has just never thought about what is really going on.
Jen, you go girl!
Sue, I just recently unsubscribed from a mailing list that I enjoyed very much, because of conversations with one person who Just Does Not Get It. Breeders are going to be asked very hard question in the coming year, and they’d better have good answers. I got told that I was slagging all show breeders, we shouldn’t ‘judge people’, and that doing so was playing up to the ARs.
Also that this person just couldn’t be my friend, because I dared to criticize institutions they hold dear. Oh, well.
I had the exact same conversation about two months ago on the PDE blog, except for the friend thing.
It’s like beating your head against a brick wall.
Sue said: “Humans have a flat face and their mouth is set back into the head.” This is exactly the reason that brachycephalic dogs are so often favored over dolichocephalic ones. The neotenous flat face, short muzzle and big eyes in a broad round head resembles that of a human baby, QED: “cute.”
Unfortunately, these folks are much more interested in what they find physically attractive than in the real welfare of their preferred breeds. (Anybody recall Tricki-Woo, the obese Pekingese on the British series “All Creatures Great and Small”?)
DWH,
I so know how you feel, I just can’t understand if they are so sure of what they belief is correct why do they get so personal & insulted when we dare question the ethics of another show breeder etc….
I have friends who breed & show but they respect my decision to no longer show but they are far & few between these days. I don’t hold the decisions & actions of many against them all & know to some it is just a hobby & a good weekend out & would never construct their breeding programe around who wins at shows over the ongoing health & function of thier bloodlines. I do fear they are becoming less & less of the magority of show breeders though.
Was looking for an x-ray of a peke skull.
I found this, a full body x-ray of a peke which I think is very interesting. Can some one point out the canine teeth? Would love to hear any comments from anyone trained to read x-rays.
There is also a rather sad description of what this show dogs life is like on the show road.
Life Mag 1961, starts on page 34.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=70oEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=x+ray+pekingese+skull+head&source=bl&ots=ZCIetXssGQ&sig=AsdObdpHRzsJWexhNw_nsHyBNZU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J1o_T_S6Oo6fiAeD5P3BBA&sqi=2&ved=0CGYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=x%20ray%20pekingese%20skull%20head&f=false
Hope that link will work.
I think the front legs are a story all on thier own!
Although apparently thats Ok as they are meant to be lap dogs not athletes….. I would think any living animal should be able to walk run, play, toliet without being slowed down by the stucture of their skelton & quite possibly in pain. I know what bowed legs make your joints feel like from personal exsperiance & I will bet the dog dose not get pain meds I need at times just to get about. But it seems I’m wrong it’s ok as long as it is apart of the dogs breed standard!!! And of course it must be Ok because a Peke won BIS at a high standing dog show… It is just such a joke.
Great source on Peke breed evolution . . . reflections of a Peke breeder on visiting the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, England and looking at the various stuffed dogs from Asia . . . all turn of the century specimens from dog fanciers . . . including the supposed ‘Adam’ of the Peke breed, Ah Cum. He concludes that the modern Peke shows a strong imprint from the Happa Dog, represented by Ta-Jen, a specimen imported in 1906 provided by Mrs Carneige. (good photos provided)
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CIEBEBYwCA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepekingeseclubofamerica.com%2FThe%2520Pekingese%2520and%2520The%2520Happa%2520Dog%2C%2520with%2520photos.pdf&ei=HOg_T5jdNOjViAKf9siLAQ&usg=AFQjCNEsVdavUny4MFcdVZCz1oYUQrCN_g&sig2=UaqnBpiiz5mx_pxXUBnrNg
(Hope that link works. . . copying links for .pdf’s found on google doesn’t work well for me).
Short extract:
Given the fact that Mrs. Carnegie was a top exhibitor at the time and brought in the only known Happa dog to England and France, one wonders what interest this unusual dog stirred among other leading Peke breeders then. As the British breeder at the museum suggested, did Mrs. Carnegie and some of her contemporaries cross the Happa dog with their other Pekes to acquire the Happa dog’s breed type, the bowed front, broad flat topskull and earset on their future stock?
Interesting theory.
From what I’ve read, happa dogs were actually more common in China than the royal pekingese, so this dog and perhaps others could have been a source for greater genetic diversity.
However, in the West, I don’t doubt that they were crossed with Japanese chin quite a bit. I’ve seen old photos of long-legged pekes that look like chin. I have a photo of Queen Alexandra’s Pekingese spaniel that is in this pdf, and it looks more like a chin than a peke.
I wonder if English toy spaniels were also used– and pugs, too, which were much more established in Europe, probably also an offshoot of happas.
But if you bred Ah Cum to the happa, the puppies would be smooths, not long-hairs. Where are the smooth pekes?
That’s my question about golden retrievers having bloodhound in them. It’s often repeated, but there are no records of the bloodhound cross that are verifiable. There are also no smooth golden retrievers with bloodhound traits anywhere in the breed’s history. You’d have to have them if bloodhound were in their pedigree.
As a dominant, smooth is easy to eliminate. You can chuck it in the second generation:
Smooth x Long will produce all smooth puppies heterozygous for long coat.
Breed one of these back to a long coat, you will get both smooth and long coat pups.
Don’t breed from any of the smooth pups.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
In golden retrievers, this never happened, because the dogs are too well-documented.
And the ones that were said to be part bloodhound were said to be smaller.
Big red flag there.
It’s possible that this dog could have contributed to the peke, but there is a lot more evidence of chin ancestry.
Plus, you’d think you’d get photos of some smooths once in a while.
The dogs from the bloodhound cross were not used further for breeding, as their temperament was “savage”(according to 6th Lord Ilchester, whose father did the cross). They were used mostly for deer tracking. It is also very likely that whatever might have been called a “bloodhound” in those days was not much like the breed registered as Bloodhound today, most of whom are quite genial.
Well, there are short-coated pekes in the historical record. They used to be on Pai’s photobucket. They were called Pekingese pugs.
Here is one from 1905:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/1905%20pekingese%20pug%20(hapa%20dog)/Pietoro/Dog%20Breed%20Historical%20Pictures/Pekingese/1905Pekingese2.jpg?o=2
That’s not a smooth coat. I doubt that it’s genetically smooth, either. Breed one of those to a hairier dog and you just get somewhat less hairy dogs.
Um, The one sitting between the black pekes is obviously a smooth.
I know what I’m talking about.
I missed the smooth one. There’s no need to a be snot.
I’m sorry.
That’s okay. I overreacted.
Check these out: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Pietoro/Dog%20Breed%20Historical%20Pictures/Hapa%20Dog/?action=view¤t=1905Happa.jpg¤ttag=hapa%20dog
In Chrome is just loads the pdf in a window.
That happa dog is smooth.
The genes that affect appearance in dogs are relatively few. You wouldn’t have to breed to a happa dog to get extreme type like that.
(In the pic at the top, you can see Shahzada the Afghan hound and the two Salukis.)
I have again pasted & copied this from that forum because it is just so laughable, apparently it proves he’s a healthy dog & an athlete no less as he walks up the drive ways to work on his walking, LOL!! Gee to me it is just sad how can ANY healthy dog need to work on his walking as such. We are not talking ring craft but just so he can actually make it around the ring. Gee wonder how he would go keeping up with our lap dogs who have no issues chasing my TM’s around for hours every single day. This is why i have a high % Shih Tzu not pure so I could have a Shih tzu who can breath & actually has a muzzel. I would have bought a pure breed if i could have found 1 that i would happily call healthy & fit & able.
Great article about Malachy going home after his win.
There’s definitely a sturdy-bodied little Lion Dog under his fur. His owner/handler says Malachy trains ‘like an athlete’, going up and down their long driveway every day. He also likes butter on toast….not margarine.
Sardi’s, the posh restaurant in New York, got permission for Malachy to have dinner there after his win, cooking up chicken and rice for him.
Lovely pic of Malachy, later at home, posed in his winning cup.
The evidence is that this purebred Pekingese lives a happy, mobile & healthy life.
I got this link from US Tibetan Spaniel breeders who are delighted for Malachy & his win.
http://www.ydr.com/c…8mv8IG18Y.email
Yep deff proves his healthy loin dog hay, LOL!!!!!
[...] I noted at the time of the win, this was a win for qualzucht– “torture breeding”– and will do nothing more than fuel the flames of the animal [...]
[...] Qualzucht wins big at Westminster [...]
[...] Qualzucht wins big at Westminster. [...]
[...] Qualzucht wins big at Westminster. [...]
[...] Qualzucht wins big at Westminster. [...]
[...] Qualzucht wins big at Westminster. [...]
[...] http://retrieverman.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/qualzucht-wins-big-at-westminster/ [...]
I watched a bit of Westminster on youtube without knowing anything about it. When I saw this dog I wondered how it even qualified to get in a dog show. A waddling, panting, pathetic fluffball that struggles to move at snailpace. It had to be carried when all the other dogs were walking. Naturally the thing wins.
“Qualzucht wins big at Westminster The Retriever, Dog, & Wildlife Blog” was indeed
a remarkable blog post. If only there were even more web blogs
like this specific one on the actual net. Well, thanks for your
precious time, Gertrude