Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Showing Chinese Cresteds

There is now some kind of official message from the Swedich Kennel Club and the Swedish Chinese Crested Club saying that the Chinese Crested Club thinks that it's OK with shaving occasional (a few) hairs on Chinese Crestad hairless. The Swedish Kennel Club hasn't stated what they think, so we have to assume that they accept the view from the Chinese Crested Club.
Shaving is not allowed at the show ground, and it's not allowed if it means any kind of suffering (or similar) for the dog. Shaving should be done with proper tools.

This means that anyone can claim that they only shaved "occasional hairs". So the shaving will continue as before, but people will now avoid doing it openly.

There were no additional consequences for me or Polka. She was stopped from most summer shows awaiting the final official decision from the Board of the Swedish Kennel Club.
(The result for Polka from Västerås in April was deleted, even if we didn't do anything that wasn't allowed.)

Based on this we will now start showing Chinese Cresteds again since we only shave occasional hairs.