Pedigree Dogs Exposed - Three Years On

The BBC has announced that it has slated Pedigree Dogs Exposed - Three Years On for show sometime later this month, almost certainly to air the week before Crufts.

In 2008 Pedigree Dogs Exposed lifted the lid on the true extent of the health and welfare problems faced by pedigree dogs in the UK.

The startling expose of harmful breeding practices generated a massive reaction from the public and from those involved in dog breeding.

Now the programme’s producer Jemima Harrison returns to explore what has happened since she made the original film. Deeply affected by the issues that she uncovered, Jemima has become a campaigner on dog welfare.

In this programme she takes a personal look at the positive changes that have been introduced since the first film and investigates areas of continuing concern, particularly among breeds like the German Shepherd, the Bulldog and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Jemima hears from dog breeders and a range of experts, many of whom express grave worries about the future of some of our best loved breeds.

No doubt the Kennel Club will now start up a full parade of lies and disinformation, with poodle poofters and breed club matrons wringing their hands about how unfair it is that anyone would talk about the Kennel Club breeding deformed, diseased and defective dogs in a closed registry system for more than 100 years.



The 'Baghdad Bobs' of the Kennel Club will say there is no reason to take more action, and besides they were already well on their way to reform all on their own, don't you know.

Right. Heard it all before, and for decades now.

Still breeding dogs in a closed registry system are they? Check.

Still giving rosettes to dogs that cannot breathe and cannot mate or whelp on their own, are they? Check.

Still counting health and work for zero at Kennel Club dog shows, are they? Check.

Still ushering in "new" breeds with incredibly small gene pools, are they? Check.

Right. So what's the Kennel Club done that is truly new and substantive?

A list of 14 breeds to watch and worry over?

A few word changes to a few standards?

Is that it? Is that all there is to Kennel Club reform three years on?
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