Árkosi József 2 órája Dear Pumi lovers, We wish you happy new year, Im sorry to have to write about it. I take the liberty to answer to the recently published article, I wrote that letter to the HPCA group, but it was canceled, because it hasnt place in that group. I think this is the place... I read : ”Magyar Pumi Klub (Hungarian Pumi Club) Latest Activity,” by Meir Ben Drorʼs in the official HPCA newsletter. The quote: Magyar Pumi Klub (Hungarian Pumi Club) Latest Activities by Meir Ben-Dror The Hungarian Pumi Club (MPK) just published its latest breeding regulations. There are several changes they’ve implemented that may be of concern to American Pumi owners, especially if they consider getting a Pumi from Hungary. 1. They now allow breeding of dogs with a hip dysplasia grade of HD-D – equivalent to the OFA “Moderate” dysplasia, with permission to breed one litter, with an A or B grade mate. For many years, dogs have been allowed to be brought in from the farms by virtue of the fact that they look like the Pumi breed. Dogs entered in the “Auxiliary” registry have no registered ancestors; any dog which is deemed as having Pumi characteristics can be entered in the “Auxiliary, B” registry. Such unregistered dogs, if they pass the regular breeding inspection, are entered into the regular registry and allowed to breed. This has kept the gene pool diverse. Recently, this activity has increased, and breeding is now going on in several kennels with multiple dogs with unknown ancestry, and in fact some of these dogs even resemble other herding breeds. 3. Changes in the FCI/Hungarian standard have been submitted to FCI for approval (the process takes 1 1⁄2 to 2 years) to enable a group of breeders, who have been experimenting with color combinations which are disqualifying faults in the current standard, under the claim that they want to breed the “old type” Pumi varieties, destroying responsible breeders’ work through many decades to achieve a homogeneous Pumi stock. The changes to the FCI standard are noted below, additions are in red and underlined, deletions are stricken through (See the full text of the current FCI standard on the HPCA website at pumiclub.org/About.htm): “GENERAL APPEARANCE: The Pumi can have various colors but must always be of one solid color never with spots. COAT Color: • Grey in various shades (normally, the color at birth is black, turning grey with time). • Black. • Fawn (fakó). Primary colors: red, yellow, cream (often a trace of black or grey shade along the face, the ears and the back) distinct mask are desirable). A white mark on the chest less than 3 cm in diameter and/or a white line on the toes are not faulty. • White. The coat color must always be intense and solid. The coat color at the black and white always intense and solid. The black or darker grey shade is allowed at the grey (at birth is black) and fawn. DISQUALIFYING FAULTS: • Chocolate or blue (gray at birth) colored, multicolored coat. All uniform, clearly defined patches (i.e. tan markings, mantle forming marking). • Size deviating from the height limits (+ /- more than 2 cm) given by the standard.” 4. Breeding and litter inspections are conducted in an unprofessional and arbitrary manner, and only certain favored breeders get breeding permits and their litters registered in the regular registry regardless of the actual quality of the dogs. These changes are unacceptable to many old-time prominent Pumi breeders who have stopped breeding out of protest. In view of the situation, prospective US buyers of puppies from Hungary are advised to choose the breeders carefully, know the standard, and scrutinize the parents and their pedigrees carefully. Bear in mind that AKC requires a 3 generation pedigree to register a dog.” … end quote Response to article: Their HPCA Members, First, I must say that his article is poorly researched in its current form. It lacks facts, any supporting materials and it is also out of context without the necessary background information. Therefore, I would strongly encourage the editor of the newsletter to contact our Club for fact checking next time. Our membership is disappointed by the action of the Hungarian Pumi Club of America for this unsupported negative article in its official publication about the Magyar Pumi Klub. Our Pumi community here in Hungary believes that these types of substandard and misleading writings with a clearly negative agenda, provides disservice for our breed, obviously to our club here in Hungary, your own U.S. constituents and all other readers. Ben-Dror in his article is accusing our club that we permit breeding Pumis with hip dysplasia. This statement is simply not true without proper background information. To begin with, the “Magyar Pumi Klub” is the first ever official Pumi Club in the breedʼs long history in Hungary that made hip screening mandatory in our country. Before our mandatory requirements, hip screening has been elective and therefore, virtually non existent. Today, no Pumi gets breeding approval without screening and a satisfying result in Hungary. Readers, also should know that the MEOESZ (Hungarian Kennel Club) and its Hungarian associate breeding clubs, like the overwhelming majority of the worldʼs nationsʼ kennel clubs are FCI members and use FCI hip screening standards. The Magyar Pumi Klubʼs rules only allows dogs with A, B, C, hips to be bred. The crucial information that has been omitted from Ben-Drorʼs article, is that specially selected dogs with “D” hips can be bred to “A” and/or “B” hip dogs only one time under unusually rear circumstances, such us in case of a very promising specimen, unusual/ rare bloodline, or some historically significant specimen in the breedʼs history. This permit is granted by our Breeding Committee members, (some of them with several decades of experience or) after careful discussions, considerations and selections. Ben-Dror with his obvious inexperience in breeding, unfortunately, has no comprehension of the importance of this practice. To compare, for instance, owners of rear breeds like the Pumi with DM and PLL carrier status in the U.S., rightly, are encouraged by OFA veterinary experts to be bred with healthy specimen. For your information, we believe, that a Breeding Comitte is a must have infrastructure of any breed club that is to ensure the highest quality of breeding. Although, the HPCA, a novice Pumi Club, with one single experienced breeder on board in close to ten years has no such infrastructure, we believe that criticizing a foreign Pumi Club, for its practices, it would be simply inappropriate. To address Meir Ben-Drorʼs uninformed concern about the Pumiʼs open stud book registry system in Hungary, it is simply a gross misrepresentation of the process. Open stud book registry has been a standard practice for many rare breeds with small gene pools and legally allowed by the FCI and practiced internationally. Unregistered dogs that are selected to enter the breeding programs of experienced breeders, get registered in the “Auxiliary registry” after careful consideration. These specimenʼs descendants go through careful “breeders previews” each year for three generations and only qualified individuals are granted “A-pedigree” status. No(!) unregistered dog without known history that resembles(or not) the Pumi under the Clubʼs current administration has ever been granted “A-registry” booking as Ben-Dror claims. The breeders who take on this practice should be applauded for their work. While this practice can be rewarding for the entire breed, it can also set back oneʼs breeding program for many years to come. Meir Ben-Dror has also misrepresented our clubʼs action of changing the Pumiʼs current color standard. These changes have been proposed and approved by the previous pumi club, “Hungaria Pumi Club,” many years ago. These changes were voted on and accepted by the former members of the old club. Now, to clarify the text occurred. No changes have been made to the colors. To be clear, our administration simply submitted these changes to the FCI to finish the administrative process that the previous administration has not completed, but, has put into action in Hungary. Ben-Dror, who has no personal experience, and did not provide any specifics has also criticized our inspection system. His statements without supporting facts, simply become baseless accusations from thousands of miles away. (Without personal experience no one should put out any statements about our inspection system(you might want to get the info about personal interests(!) in certain failed dogs inspection here in Hungary that might have triggered his false claim) It is sad that after decades long upheavals in the state of the Pumi in Hungary, our clubʼs current progress has been spun into negative actions and many of the other positive improvements, have been omitted from the HPCA article. Yours sincerelly Jozsef Árkosi
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:41:43 +0000
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