just heard that chinese crested have been removed with imediate effect from the high profile breeds, but judging feedback for the next few years will be required

Is there a reason for them doing this ?

Don't know if it is true but I am told that they were put on the list because some exhibitors were shaving their dogs and they are meant to be hairless, if this is true that hardly seems a good enough reason to have them pass a vet test. Would have thought a note to judges would have sufficed to curtail the practice, steam hammer and nut come to mind.

But how is shaving a dog related to health issues doesn't make any sense ?

Razor burn or sore skin from depilatory creams, apparently.

> Razor burn or sore skin from depilatory creams, apparently.

Makes no sense though because nobody would want to take a red and sore looking dog to a show, and in fact I've never seen a crested with razor burn. They do have quite tough skin, we used to shave ours, everyone did and I guess still do. The flashy ones with lots of trim will also have hair on their faces and backs. It's just the same as clipping a poodle isn't it.

Anyway, razor burn or not I wouldn't think that was at all the same as entropian or skin problems from being born with too much skin. Razor burn could be fixed by simply not shaving again, the other high profile breeds have problems that will take an awful lot longer to rectify, and cause many dogs discomfort in the meantime.

That is what I was thinking it is a condition brought on indirectly not directly because of the breeding

Razor burn could be fixed by simply not shaving again, the other high profile breeds have problems that will take an awful lot longer to rectify, and cause many dogs discomfort in the meantime

That's rather the point why were the breed on the list in the first place.

As for the others checking the BOB winner is not going to do anything for those of the same breed that are being badly bred, penalising the very best can only be counter productive.

> But how is shaving a dog related to health issues doesn't make any sense ?

I don't think it's just about the health but also about the well being of dogs.

I see no problem with shaving a dog that has shaving foam on and a new razor being used but a few years ago I did see a crested being shaved dry at a show in a gents arms, I'm sure most of us know shaving dry isn't comfortable!
But that may just have been a one off, it was only because it was on one of the rare occasions that the toys were on the same day as working, I wouldn't actually know if its a common thing.

I suspect that was rare, certainly I've never seen it, ours were shaved with baby shampoo as foam and then baby oil applied after and never had a rash - plooks sometimes but no shaving rash!

ok being a bit dim but what is a plook lol

ok being a bit dim but what is a plook lol

I thought it was a typo, perhaps not, so what is it?

I had to google it, lol.... Scottish word for a pimple :)

> That's rather the point why were the breed on the list in the first place.
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Because a certain high profile journalist wrote that it was a problem.

Couldn't understand the fuss at all, as no mention made of Poodles, Portuguese Water Dogs or Lowchens that are regularly clipped to the skin, or the poor pet dogs of long coated  breeds who get this treatment at some groomers.

> Because a certain high profile journalist wrote that it was a problem.

Exactly and another point about the vet tests is their ability to swiftly demonstrate there isn't a problem with a breed.

> I had to google it, lol.... Scottish word for a pimple

Thanks MsT, yes plook = spot, whitehead, zit :-)