What A Turnaround
24/10/09 21:00 Filed in: Stories
I woke up on Tuesday morning to find that the head of our GTA had now decided that microchipping was perfectly okay albeit that 3 dogs within 1 month of being chipped had been found to have chips that had migrated, this coming after telling people that one case was one too many, what was more alarming was the flippant statement alluding that it was okay that 200 out of 6 million had other issues without migration.
What I cannot understand is what ACTUAL benefit having greyhounds microchipped does, I am all for welfare and all for having a dog traceable from cradle to grave but I’m certain that there is far better and safer procedures.
Defra has suggested that we as a sport have microchipping in order to be able to correctly identify all dogs, well forgive me for being naive but surely the age old art of earmarking does this, YES it has been known for callous ba---rds to chop a dogs ears off to protect its identity BUT if someone is willing to do this then I am afraid that they would happily cut a dog open in order to remove a chip, should this happen then we would be back to having a dog completely untraceable.
The most fool proof solution would be for EVERY single pup born in The Uk to have a DNA sample taken at the time of earmarking, this could NOT be tampered with, I would be more than happy to give up my time to have this done and I would be much happier that I would not be possibly subjecting my dogs to anything that may harm them in the future.
I am also aware that our sport is under severe pressure from outside parties but by giving into their every whim we are only setting ourselves up for a major fall, today it is microchipping and tomorrow it will be something else, eventually we will be so stangled that we will have no breath left in us.
On the racing front things have been very quiet but I have a good feeling about the future.
All the pups continue to impress me and are all looking very strong and bolshy.
New Pictures of Baby Marge and Jazz Hurricanes pups recently added to the Galleries pages.
I have taken ownership of Farloe Merlin who is litter brother to Fear Zafonic and ½ brother to many Group 1 dogs including Ninja Jamie, Farloe Reason and Farloe Lee, I shall be standing him at Stud and will be offering him up for free in UK and shall be having straws, at cost price, shipped to Australia, already the feedback is superb and anyone wishing to use him in UK or pre order a straw for Australia should contact me, I honestly think he will be a huge success.
Recent winners Moorland Rob at Belle Vue, Smoking Jim,Baron Samedi and Ashbys Hawk at Hove, Foulden Rebel at Portsmouth, Andreas Quest at Newcastle and Shimano Sumo at Henlow.
Total Reared Winners 848
What I cannot understand is what ACTUAL benefit having greyhounds microchipped does, I am all for welfare and all for having a dog traceable from cradle to grave but I’m certain that there is far better and safer procedures.
Defra has suggested that we as a sport have microchipping in order to be able to correctly identify all dogs, well forgive me for being naive but surely the age old art of earmarking does this, YES it has been known for callous ba---rds to chop a dogs ears off to protect its identity BUT if someone is willing to do this then I am afraid that they would happily cut a dog open in order to remove a chip, should this happen then we would be back to having a dog completely untraceable.
The most fool proof solution would be for EVERY single pup born in The Uk to have a DNA sample taken at the time of earmarking, this could NOT be tampered with, I would be more than happy to give up my time to have this done and I would be much happier that I would not be possibly subjecting my dogs to anything that may harm them in the future.
I am also aware that our sport is under severe pressure from outside parties but by giving into their every whim we are only setting ourselves up for a major fall, today it is microchipping and tomorrow it will be something else, eventually we will be so stangled that we will have no breath left in us.
On the racing front things have been very quiet but I have a good feeling about the future.
All the pups continue to impress me and are all looking very strong and bolshy.
New Pictures of Baby Marge and Jazz Hurricanes pups recently added to the Galleries pages.
I have taken ownership of Farloe Merlin who is litter brother to Fear Zafonic and ½ brother to many Group 1 dogs including Ninja Jamie, Farloe Reason and Farloe Lee, I shall be standing him at Stud and will be offering him up for free in UK and shall be having straws, at cost price, shipped to Australia, already the feedback is superb and anyone wishing to use him in UK or pre order a straw for Australia should contact me, I honestly think he will be a huge success.
Recent winners Moorland Rob at Belle Vue, Smoking Jim,Baron Samedi and Ashbys Hawk at Hove, Foulden Rebel at Portsmouth, Andreas Quest at Newcastle and Shimano Sumo at Henlow.
Total Reared Winners 848
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