"THE KENNEL Club will not be attending the 2019 World Dog Show in China" KC secretary Caroline Kisko said today.  

In the latest twist in the story surrounding the FCI decision to award the 2019 WDS to China Mrs Kisko said the KC ‘fully condemned’ the sale and consumption of dog meat and the Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival .

  “The trade has long been associated with a large number of animal welfare violations, which include neglect towards the animals’ physical and mental needs, as they often live and are transported in crowded conditions without sufficient water or food,”  she said. “In addition, slaughtering methods are brutal with no regard to the welfare of the animal and the suffering caused.  As such we have long lobbied for a ban on the sale of dogs for consumption as part of our extensive political work.”

  “The consumption of dog meat has long been a cultural phenomenon in certain countries, and one way of helping to reduce trade in dog meat is to promote dogs as companion animals to be loved and cared for.

  “The huge increase in interest in dog showing in China will result in more people seeing them as pets first and foremost, and we hope that the show, attended by dog lovers, will help people to see dogs as creatures that can provide their owners with unconditional love and companionship.

  “As part of our campaign against the dog meat trade we contacted three of the major kennel clubs in China a few years ago to seek assurance that they were taking an active role in lobbying their own government against the trade, to protect the welfare of China’s dogs.  Each of them confirmed that they were carrying out work in this area and promoting dogs as pets and companions and actively trying to have the trade outlawed. 

  “The KC continues to lobby the UK Government, raise awareness of the issue with the European Commission and Parliament and work with other welfare organisations to apply pressure on foreign countries to end their dog and cat meat trade or to better enforce the bans currently in place.”

"It has advised exhibitors and enthusiasts not to take part and has asked judges to decline invitations to officiate in the country unless the the annual Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival is stopped."

Full article HERE

Is it just me who is suspecting that people are reading more in to this KC statement than it says?

"It has advised exhibitors and enthusiasts not to take part and has asked judges to decline invitations to officiate in the country unless the the annual Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival is stopped."

It could just be poorly written, but the way I read it, that second sentence refers to the Norwegian KC's request that people boycott the event, not our KC.

Yes all our KC has said is that it will not have a stand at the show (would they anyway,I wonder?) -they have not followed the NKK who actually asks their members to NOT enter the show.

> our KC has said is that it will not have a stand at the show (would they anyway,I wonder?)

Well, yes, exactly.

It's a start as statements go, but I think people have read more in to it.

>Is it just me who is suspecting that people are reading more in to this KC statement than it says?

>"It has advised exhibitors and enthusiasts not to take part and has asked judges to decline invitations to officiate in the country unless the the annual Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival is stopped."

Apologies!! I am guilty of misreading and then including that abridged statement! You are correct and it was the NKC and not our own KC whom said it!

However, I have just rechecked the link and DW have amended the text (from that which I supplied above) to how it reads now:

"THE NORWEGIAN Kennel Club (NKC) is urging the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) not to allow the 2019 World Dog Show to be held in China.

  It has advised exhibitors and enthusiasts not to take part and has asked judges to decline invitations to officiate in the country unless the the annual Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival is stopped."

Further, update:

"KC’s absence from China World Show ‘due to logistics’

THE KENNEL Club’s decision not to send a representative to the World Dog Show in China is not connected to the country’s dog meat eating festival, a spokesman said today.

  Yesterday, the Norwegian Kennel Club (NKC) urged the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) not to allow the 2019 show to be held in China and urged people to boycott the event."

Full article HERE

Oh well...as usual...the KC talk the talk but do NOT walk the walk. To the KC....GROW A PAIR FFS.