What They're Saying About the Bateson Report

• UK report calls for tougher dog breeding standards (AP via The Washingon Post)
• UK inquiry urges changes to pedigree dog breeding (Reuters)
• Dog lovers must reform breeding industry themselves, report finds (London Times)
• Pedigree Dog Breeders Face Industry Shake-Up (Sky News)
• Inquiry calls for better care in pedigree dog breeding (BBC News)
• 'Long way to go' after dog inquiry (Jemima Harrison /BBC essay)
• Mutations in pedigree dogs 'must be bred out' (The Independent)
• Pedigree dogs - timeline of controversy (Independent)
• Leading Vet Charity Supports Change of Culture in Dog Breeding (K-9 Magazine)
• Dog breeding report: the facts (Telegraph)
• Every dog to be microchipped to reduce canine deformities, report rules (Daily Mail)
  Hypocritical Kennel Club Complains Bateson Report “Not Enough” (K-9 Magazine)
• RSPCA Responds to Bateson Report “The World has Woken Up” (K-9 Magazine)
• BBC: “Bateson Report a Kennel Club Own Goal” (K-9 Magazine)
• Vets Respond to Bateson Report (K-9 Magazine)
• Dog breeding concerns highlighted in Britain (AFP)
• All puppies to be microchipped according to new recommendations to Defra (Telegraph)

"The time has surely come for society as a whole to take a firm grip on the welfare issues that evidently arise in dog breeding."
-- Cambridge University professor emeritus Patrick Bateson