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High profile Best of Breed vet checks to be launched at Crufts
The Kennel Club has produced guidelines for show societies, exhibitors and veterinary surgeons in order to ensure that everyone has an understanding of the new veterinary checks which will take place at Crufts 2012 and at all subsequent Kennel Club licensed General and Group Championship Shows.

These guidelines are intended to enable the checks to be carried out as efficiently and effectively as possible. Furthermore, the Kennel Club has also produced a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the High Profile Breed Veterinary Checks.

Changes have been made to the way that the fifteen high profile breeds are awarded Best of Breed, to ensure that only fit and healthy dogs are awarded Best of Breed.

The changes, which came into effect on 1 March 2012, mean that any dog in the fifteen high profile breeds which is selected as Best of Breed at Crufts 2012 and at all subsequent Kennel Club licensed General and Group Championship Shows, will need to be given a clean bill of health by the show veterinary surgeon before their Best of Breed award is confirmed and before they are allowed to continue to compete in the final stages of the show involved.

All veterinary surgeons who undertake these checks at shows will receive full training and guidance on how the checks should be carried out.

All guidelines and FAQs can be found on the High Profile Breed Veterinary Check page of the Kennel Club website at www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/4176.

To find out what else the Kennel Club is doing to improve the health of pedigree dogs, visit www.thekennelclub.org.uk/doghealth.

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Bulldog and Pekingese fail Crufts vet checks
No dog representing the Pekingese and Bulldog breeds will compete in Thursday evening’s Best in Group competitions at Crufts after they failed the new veterinary checks that have been introduced to the show.

The Best of Breed award was not given to Pekingese, Palacegarden Bianca, or Bulldog, Mellowmood One In A Million, following their veterinary checks, which were carried out by an independent veterinary surgeon. This means that the dogs will not be allowed to continue into the Toy or Utility Best in Group competitions respectively.

The Kennel Club has introduced veterinary checks for the Best of Breed winners at all Kennel Club licensed General and Group Championship Dog Shows from Crufts 2012 onwards, in 15 designated high profile breeds. This measure was introduced to ensure that Best of Breed awards are not given to any dogs that show visible signs of problems due to conditions that affect their health or welfare.

The fifteen high profile breeds are as follows: Basset Hound, Bloodhound, Bulldog, Chow Chow, Clumber Spaniel, Dogue De Bordeaux, German Shepherd Dog, Mastiff, Neapolitan Mastiff, Pekingese, Shar Pei, St Bernard, French Bulldog, Pug and Chinese Crested.

Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club Secretary, said: “We are determined to ensure that the show ring is a positive force for change and that we help to move breeds forward by only rewarding the healthiest examples of a breed.

“The veterinary checks were introduced to ensure that dogs with exaggerated features do not win prizes. The independent veterinary surgeon decided that the Pekingese and Bulldog should not pass their checks and therefore they did not receive their Best of Breed awards and will not be representing their breeds in the remainder of the competition.”