I enjoyed the article and it raised many questions in my mind. Firstly, if the people who register their dogs with the Kennel Club(?) want to have these registries opened again, what gives the KC the right to refuse them? I was under the impression that a club was a democratically run body, with an elected committee. Without the breeders (Kennels), it would no longer be a Kennel Club, would it? Failing the support of most of the breeders, what is there to stop anyone from bringing new blood into a breeding program from a different, but similar breed? Without mandatory DNA testing, it would be impossible to prove the paternity of a litter. I think we are all aware that this is already being done 'under the table' in certain breeds, so why all the fuss? Open the registries to well-planned and judicious out-crosses and I am sure that we will see excellent results, without much loss of type in an already drastically inbred line. In closing, I think that we will continue to ruin dog breeds as long as we allow governing bodies like the Kennel Club, or the Kennel Union as we have here, to make our decisions for us.