tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post7236570734831677642..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: The Kennel Club's Transvestite Terriers, Counterfeit Collies, and Bogus BulldogsPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-58837496575906346592015-10-09T20:24:00.550-04:002015-10-09T20:24:00.550-04:00S.K.Y., I think I answered your question over on J...S.K.Y., I think I answered your question over on Jemima's blog. That said, the answer you are looking for, I believe, is that the Kennel Club will most likely embrace the FCI definition of a Jack Russell, which is a dog that is longer in the body then it is tall. The Parson Russell people seem to think their dog should be perfectly square. Of course, no one is requiring that the dog actually do work, or be healthy. Nor are they disqualifying any dogs with chests that are too big. Whether the dog is square or longer in the back than tall, matters not a whit to the fox in the field. No doubt bullshit rationalizations and histories will be made to rationalize the morphologies, but it will all be nonsense. PBurnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-491863434802860642015-10-09T14:22:40.430-04:002015-10-09T14:22:40.430-04:00"Form follows Function" is an architectu..."Form follows Function" is an architectural phrase coined in the first days of modern architecture. Ironically it was meant to denigrate ornamentation and unnecessary gee-gaws- the exact opposite of what the phrase means to the AKC! (A ridgeback? A mashed in face and super-curly tail? Wrinkly floppy skin?) However- in horse breeding the term "form TO function" is used and makes sense- From Wikipedia: " Thus "form to function" is one of the first set of traits considered in judging conformation. A horse with poor form for a Grand Prix show jumper could have excellent conformation for a World Champion cutting horse, or to be a champion draft horse. Every horse has good and bad points of its conformation and many horses (including Olympic caliber horses) excel even with conformation faults" I think this also follows in the world of working dogs- a small dog with spindly legs and a tiny head with needle teeth ( a miniature poodle eg.) would NOT make a good terrier- too delicate...Jeff T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01520811975339950553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-2163836696195267002015-10-09T14:13:17.580-04:002015-10-09T14:13:17.580-04:00I posted in PDE, but nobody has replied yet there....I posted in PDE, but nobody has replied yet there. I was wondering if you know the difference between what the UK Kennel Club just accepted (the JRT) and the dog they have registered for a couple of decades (the PRT)? <br /><br />My dog was born in America in 1995. He was dual-registered JRTCA/UKC, hunted in JRTCA and was #1 conformation JRT in the UKC. <br /><br />We moved to the UK in 1999, and was registered in the UK Kennel Club as a PRT. We mainly did obedience and working trials (Schutzhund) there, but competed in conformation once and came in #2 out of 130 PRTs.<br /><br />This shows that a JRTCA-registered JRT from working lines looks identical to the breed standard for the PRT in the UK Kennel Club.<br /><br />So what is the dog that just got registered today with the UK Kennel Club? Is it one of the short-legged little non-hunting dogs that they have in Australia as pets? If so, why is everybody up in arms about the KC accepting them? It seems to me that they accepted the true working terrier decades ago. (Which I'm against, but it's not "news" at this point).S.K.Y.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10394626858056890715noreply@blogger.com