Review of the standard of the chows

Zheng He's kennel looks into the burning topical question :

The subject was since a time on the table, but now the directions become clear and probably in a hasty way.

The announced goal of this standard's reform is well and good from the fundations a will of preserve the health of our breed dogs and we cannot cast the first stone to the Kennel Club concerning this very laudably objective when we see the drifts which can be made of the interpretation that everyone can make of his own reading.

What is frightened the most the chowist in the planned modifications, is in particular :

- the delete in the paragraph CHARACTERISTIC, of the specificity " unique in its stilted gait",

- the modification in the paragraph HINDQUATERS, hindlegs, from " whith minimal angulation" to "with moderate angulation",
- in the paragraph GAIT/MOVEMENT the delete of the description "short and stilted" replace by "Relatively short stepping. Forelegs and hindlegs moving parallel to each other and straight forward. Dogs should always be able to move freely and soundly without any sign of distress."

The Kennel Club would make a link between the general ligaments problems of the chows and their hindlegs straight, and yet none scientific study demonstrates that this link exists. To the contrary, a study ask by some danish chowist to a spacialist proves that this link doesn't exist.

To loose the stilted gait and the minimal angulation of hindlegs would be to loose a part of the identity of our beloved Chow.

Please react, and make hear your disapproval with the next petition before the 24th december , there is EMERGENCY :

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ukchow/

In advance, thank you for our breed,

Chowchowphilement,
Cindy.