Guest roo Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Thought this may be of interest to lots of you :lol: this was said on the Des and Mel show today!! Danny the Pekinese could lose Crufts title after he's accused of having sneak facelift and the below appeared in one of the Sunday papers!! RUFF AT THE TOP Danny the Pekinese could lose Crufts title after he's accused of having sneak facelift Lynn Mcpherson Exclusive BRITAIN's top dog Danny the Pekinese last night faced being stripped of his title...after he was accused of having a secret facelift. Tiny furball Danny beat off 22,000 rivals to be named Best in Show at Crufts earlier this month. Now the Kennel Club, who run the UK's biggest dog show, looks set to dish out some ruff justice after being tipped off about Danny's hush-hush op. But Danny's owners, Glasgow hoteliers Bert Easdon and Philip Martin, claim show chiefs are barking up the wrong tree as they have done nothing wrong. Strict rules mean dogs which undergo any treatment which may alter their appearance face a ban from competing. And owners of show dogs have to supply a vet's report showing when and why any surgery was performed. But it is alleged Bert and Philip failed to disclose a throat operation Danny underwent at Glasgow University Vet School last June. Bert, 49, told the Sunday Mail that the surgery was necessary to correct a problem with the champion Peke's breathing after he had a throat infection and would not have affected his looks. And he pointed out that Danny was already a champion show dog - even being named as reserve Best in Show at Crufts last year - before his operation. Bert said: "Dogs take ill and have to be fixed up, then you can show them again. We haven't done anything wrong." The Kennel Club have launched an official probe and confirmed that three- year-old Danny, show name Dangerous Liaisons, faces losing his title. A Kennel Club source said: "Finding this out came as a bit of a shock to us and could end up with this dog losing the title. We weren't aware of any problem. It's very important that we are notified every time a dog has this kind of veterinary treatment. "Say a dog was operated on to rectify a genetic problem but we weren't notified and the dog was shown and subsequently bred from. You could be possibly passing on inherited problems. "If there was any suggestion that it would alter the dog's appearance, we should have been notified, which doesn't appear to have happened. If it's an operation for a throat infection, there's a grey area whether it would alter the appearance of that dog externally." But Bert insisted no rules had been broken. He said: "Danny did have an operation on his throat last June but it wasn't anything to do with what he looks like or how he shows. He just was ill and had to get fixed up. "He had a bad infection in his throat which affected all his insides and wouldn't clear with antibiotics. "We took him to the vet school in Glasgow and he had an operation on his throat. Sometimes they also have to fix a dog's soft palate, which affects their breathing. We actually had a letter from the professor who did the operation to say he was glad he was back to full health. Danny won a whole load of things before he got fixed up. If we were breaking any rules, I wouldn't have done it." Danny has been appearing at shows and winning titles since he was three months old and is now being retired. Bert and Philip, 50, have 20 Pekes and have been showing dogs for 30 years. It's been their dream to one day land the Champion of Champions title at Crufts but their joy at realising that dream has been short- lived amid unfounded allegations that their dogs were being badly treated. Bert said: "It's all jealousy. People will just say anything. It's just people making mischief. "I try to ignore it. They probably just want to bring your dog down. They can't just say it's a lovely dog." A spokesman for the Kennel Club in London last night confirmed the probe into Danny's win and said: "The KC implements a permission to show procedure whereby, if a dog requires a surgical operation that may alter its natural conformation, then the owner needs to apply to the Kennel Club in writing, with a supporting veterinary letter, outlining when the dog was operated on and why. "The request is then considered by the Kennel Club General Committee and a decision is made as to whether permission to show shall be granted. "The office has instigated a provisional check of correspondence and it would appear that permission to show has not been requested by the owners. "Following standard procedure, the office has, therefore, written to the owners to request their comments." Pekinese were lauded as gods at the royal courts of China 4000 years ago and arrived in Britain when Queen Victoria was presented with a breeding pair. Quote
Guest roo Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 I for one shal watch the outcome with great interest :o Quote
julie45 Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 .[b I FOR ONE CANT wait to hear what happen's.I have never heard of such a thing :o :-? . so what paper was this in then,cause i havent seen it.mind you i do only read the paper dad buy's now so that could explain it :lol: .anyway i will keep a look out but if you find out please lets us know Quote
Bensam Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 Phew, lucky they don't have that sort of ruling here in Aussie. Me thinks there might be a few less dogs in the ring :wink: I wouldn't think a throat op. would change the appearance but perhaps it is linked to a genetic problem. I like the idea of the rule as long as it is administered properly. Feel sorry for the owners, what a let down but if them's the rules! Please let us know what the result is. Quote
Guest roo Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 [quote name='julie45'].[b I FOR ONE CANT wait to hear what happen's.I have never heard of such a thing :o :-? . so what paper was this in then,cause i havent seen it.mind you i do only read the paper dad buy's now so that could explain it :lol: .anyway i will keep a look out but if you find out please lets us know http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12767907&method=full&siteid=86024 Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 IT'S HEADLINE NEWS IN TODAYS "OUR DOGS" NEWS PAPER :o Quote
Guest roo Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 we will have to wait and see what happens :-? But it just goes to show how many knives have been put in the owners back since his big win. :roll: Quote
Ickle Posted March 27, 2003 Posted March 27, 2003 I will watch the outcome with great interest Ickle Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 it's sad they have to get the knifes out. they should just smile and say well done :o Quote
Prairie_Gurl Posted March 28, 2003 Posted March 28, 2003 Jez, never heard of such a thing. Didn't think people actually cheated that bad. Can't wait to hear the out come. Plez post it cause otherwise I'll never find it out. My stinkin newspaper up here only talks about crappy farmer shit. Very boring, and nothing of importance to me. *sigh* Quote
Hobbit Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 [quote name='Prairie_Gurl'] My stinkin newspaper up here only talks about crappy farmer sh*t. Very boring, and nothing of importance to me. *sigh* Hey....don't bad mouth the farmer with a mouth full of food.....unless you want to start growing your own food. :wink: Quote
Prairie_Gurl Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 I didn't mean to bad mouth the farmers... it's just all the cattle prices and crap is very boring to me. If I had to grow my own food I think I'd die. I can barely cook let alone grow food with two dogs around!!! lol Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted April 17, 2003 Posted April 17, 2003 "OUR DOGS" NEWSPAPER HEADLINE DANNY IN THE CLEAR crufts best in show winner pekingese chyakee a dangerous has been cleared of any breach of kc regulations Quote
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