Gerard is a FCI judge and a breeder of Rottweilers. Hear us discuss the extreme breeding. We try to find reasons why brachycephalic dogs are so popular today. The social media is showing the extremes and then we think that's normal. Where is the limit to it? Shall we ban the breeds that are suffering as Norway recently did? What is the way out?

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Trascript:

00.00 Intro

03:00 Who is Gerard O'Shea

10:20 about the breeding

13:04 the Norwegian ban

17:23 Gerards 4 basic rules

18:28 the hypothetical elongevity certificate of the individual that shows the long living lines

25:40 the bresponsible breeders actions

26:30 the insurance situation

30:00 when you think the pedigree dogs

34:06 don’t buy simply on the looks

37:37 why not rewrite the standards so that the breeds have a healthy anatomy?

41:23 the role of social media in creating the extremes

48:20 our lifestyle changes

50:30 another example of exaggeration

52:20 what happens if we take away a breed

54:18 the character of the smaller breeds

57:45 it has never worked to ban forbidd things

58:58 the elongevity concept

1:01:50 the psykology term Boild frog syndrome

1:03:17 implicating that syndrome in dog people

1:09:00 the key is to educate

1:10:58 is the dog a extension of your ego?

1:16:05 a little bit of criticism of FCI organization

1:24:42 education rather then more and more rules

1:26:11 it’s a human problem really

1:27:00 the health programs vs. elongevity

1:28:14 breeding on young dogs vs.older dogs

1:29:29 be pragmatic

1:32:04 is recommendations the best way?

1:32:50 shall we turn it into a witch hunt? A personal experience.

1:36:05 Pushing for the elongevity program

1:36:42 it would apply to the pedigree dogs,

How do we do with the other unregistered dogs?

1:39:40 Educated public can make better, more pragmatic choices

1:40:30 summery of the possibilities of a elongevity program

1:41:40 Outro