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cooperation agreement
in Norway - by the Norsk not be registered or enrolled in
Kennel Club, 27.09.2019 Dear Members and Contract health schemes including newly
Partners, Dear Breeders, established genetic tests. There
The Board of the Norwegian is a danger that breeding of
Kennel Club has today decided to With a view to preserving these dogs would move into the
reverse the previous decisions on our old traditional and beloved shadows, making it difficult to
cancellation of shows, trials and breeds, the FCI has taken an trace the dogs’ genealogy.
activities with immediate effect. important step, underlining our
Norwegian national teams may efforts to help breeders to keep Our cooperation aims at de-
again attend FCI Championships. breeding healthy and happy veloping guidelines for the
The Board’s former recommenda- dogs. breeders of our national canine
tion to our members about not at- organisations on how to con-
tending official activities with dogs Please find the agreement tribute to improve the health
abroad, is also reversed. signed by the FCI and its Presi- of our popular brachycephalic
dent, Dr T. Jakkel, and Pr. J. breeds. We also aim to moni-
Due to the situation in Norway, Ladlow, Animal Health Trust tor the results of these pro-
some FCI member countries decid- and BOAS Research Group at grammes over the next 5 to
ed to not allow dogs from Norway the University of Cambridge. 10 years so that we can assess
to attend shows and trails etc. The their effectiveness and deter-
Norwegian Kennel Club kindly asks For the FCI mine if other strategies are re-
that these decisions are reversed quired. We strongly believe that
as soon as possible. Y. De Clercq this result cannot be achieved
FCI Executive Director by any other means.
The NKK Nordic Show in Harstad
4-5. October and DOGS4ALL (In- The FCI President, Dr.Tamas All BOAS affected dogs have
ternational and Nordic Show) in Jakkel, and Dr. Jane Ladlowof the right to live a decent life.
Lillestrøm/Oslo in November will the Animal Health Trust and
go ahead as planned. Other shows BOAS Research Group at the Dog health and welfare were,
and trails organized by our na- University of Cambridge, agree are and will always be our pri-
tional clubs will also be held as to cooperate in order to inves- ority!
planned starting next week. Some tigate and guide the FCI mem-
activities and trails will be held this bers (national canine organi- Pr. J. Ladlow,
weekend as previous announced sations) and the pedigree dog Animal Health Trust and
by the organizer. owner community about the BOAS Research Group at the
BOAS (Brachycephalic Obstruc- University of Cambridge
The Norwegian Food Safety Au- tive Airway Syndrome). This
thority lifted the general advice welfare issue has been causing Dr. Tamás Jakkel
about avoiding gathering of dogs a large debate worldwide and is President of the FCI
and limiting contact between dogs of great concern to the pedigree
The FCI Documents on Thursday September 26. dog breeders and dog owners of
these popular breeds.
The Veterinary Institute’s inves-
tigations have shown that the dis- Dr Ladlow’s extensive knowl-
ease with bloody diarrhoea is not edge in this particular field will
likely to spread easily between help the FCI and its members/
dogs. It is now clear that the num- breeders to devise strategies to
ber of diseased dogs is declining. monitor and improve this mat-
It is also clear that not all cases ter. Both the FCI and Dr Lad-
of illness are linked to each other. low believe that the best solu-
tion is to improve the health of
the breeds and carefully moni-
tor the breed populations. We
share the idea that banning
these breeds for the sake of
their health is not realistic and
could make the problem worse.
More dogs will be produced out-
side the FCI system and out
of reach of our FCI members.
Future progeny, which are de-
pendent on market demand,
will be uncontrolled and will
Documents • The FCI
