uncle coon wrote:
Tam and Clay never tried to hide Hardrock was crossbreed. They followed UKC regulations when they registered him. He had to meet breed specificatons (set by UKC) and perform in the woods (to UKC standards). Both of which he did. The Youngs the last I heard had not entered him into any UKC events.
The Youngs have done nothing wrong. They followed the rules just as you or I could. I again point out, THEY NEVER HID THE FACT HE WAS CROSSBRED!!!
I read it posted that UKC had made some changes to the registration policy to help prevent this in the future.
Are you
sure about any of that?
The picture sent to UKC, as part of the process, showed a dog with no white on its chest. His feet were hidden in the grass. Almost any other pictures of the dog show a palm sized white patch. Somebody said it was the lighting. Light doesn't change white to brown and its odd there would be faulty lighting on the ONE picture where the dog was being judged on his color, now isn't it?
UKC does not set the single registration requirements. Their chartered, B&T Assoc. does that. UKC does not generally assign the inspector, either. That makes it handy for them to avoid responsibility and liability.
To know if anything was done wrong, you have to know what the single reg. requirements are. The white patch on the chest is clearly larger than allowed in the rules. The white toenail and white stripe under the chin, that seldom show up in pictures, are additional proof.
UKC didn't change any single reg. policies. But the B&T Assoc. tightened up their rules, considerably. Now why would they do that, if they felt nothing wrong was done and it didn't need to be prevented in the future? I was in the meeting where those rules were tightened up. I know there was no doubt in anybody's mind what the reason was behind these new rules.
We can hope for the best and assume that perhaps it was an honest mistake? Maybe a man that had dealt with B&T's for decades is like alot of folks and just did not know the single reg. rules were? Or, maybe he felt the dog was borderline enough to deserve a try?
Regardless, what do honest people do when they make a mistake? Every honest person I know will admit when they made a mistake and try their best to correct it and make things right. Thats not happened and not likely to.
But it is all water under the bridge. As someone said, its not the first time something like this happened and it probably won't be the last time. But I do believe honest people deserve to know and want to know the truth and thats my only reason for speaking up.