I spoke to a member of my breed club who attended the meeting last
night, she has been flat out with dogs and extra shifts at work but
did want to put something on the collie lists but hasnt had the time.

Basically we really dont know anymore, any concerns must be taken to
your breed clubs then to NBC's, puppy results will not go into the
data base only adult dogs at this stage. Yes there was wrong info in
the original owners guide that is being fixed, the schedules of eye
diseases came from the british eye scheme and yes Bruce now realises
that some of the diseases do not effect us so will be fixed also.

That is a very summerised version and I am sure once the members
whom attended have 5 minutes breathing space from their very busy
lives at the moment they will tell us more. I know 3 of the collie
people whom attended have been stretched to the limit since the
meeting.
Jacq
Eridor Smooth Collies


--- In ozeyescheme@..., "zenchel1" <zenchel@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In ozeyescheme@..., "marechalacs" <marechal2@>
> wrote:
> > One thing that amased me was that although a number of breed
> > representatives present were part of National Breed Councils
some
> > claimed never to have heard about the scheme until the meeting
was
> > announced. If this is the case it means that either delegates
from
> > their NBCs did not attend the last two or three National Breed
> > Council Conferences or the delegates attending did not report
back
> > to their NBCs and via them to their affiliated clubs. Minutes of
> NBC
> > Conferences are sent to every NBC by the ANKC, is it possible
that
> > these are not being sent to the affiliated Clubs or if they are
> they
> > are being treated as "junk mail" and not discussed at club
> meetings.
> > We complain when things are done "behind our backs", but when we
> > have the opportunity to take place in decission making selecting
> > judges and arrangements for the next show are much more
important.
> > Sounds cynical I know but true - dog people are their own worst
> > enemies. The tail docking ban is a perfect example.
>
> I am President of the Labrador Retriever Breed Council and have
been
> since 2001. (BTW, nothing I say here is on behalf of or intended
to
> represent the Breed Council). In 2004 the Lab BC wrote to Dr
> Robertson requesting information on the progress of the eye
scheme -
> we had no reply. In July 2006 the Lab BC received the letter
> announcing the eye scheme and asking for selection of Open or
Closed
> Register (by September). We replied to Dr Robertson that we could
> not make decisions like that without far more information on the
> scheme and then a national survey of all registered Labrador
owners,
> which from past experience would take at least six months - again
we
> received no reply and have still had no formal reply from Dr
> Robertson.
>
>
> Sylvia Power
>