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Während alle Zahlen
einbrechen sei es Mitgliederzahlen, Deckakte, Wurfmeldungen, Zahlen der
Prüfungen sowie der Zuchtschauen und der Körungen sagt WUSV- und SV-Präsident
Messler: I can say I believe our breeds
international situation is decidedly positive
?? und wir hatten darauf reagiert: Was für ein Schmarn! Wie kann man nur sowas
sagen? Die anderen SV-Ländern akzeptieren und implementieren bis heute nicht
mal die einfachsten Zuchtvorschriften des SV und hantieren ihre eigene lockere
Gesetze!! Auf dem Balkan wurden jahrelang und massenweise Prüfungen geschrieben
(für Deutsche Ausbilder, die dafür mit gewisser Regelmass Tausenden von
Kilometern gefahren sind), durch einen Richter der nicht mal zugelassen war,
und keiner hat es gemerkt oder beanstandet, und Hunderte/Tausende von
Ahnentafeln mussten aberkannt werden, ohne dass es dafür Strafen wie
Zuchtverbote oder Vereinsverweise gegeben hat. Und da wäre die internationale
Situation ausgesprochen positiv?! I dont think so!
Geht der
Verein weiter den Untergang entgegen? Sie werden es erleben. Jim Engel fasst zwischenzeitlich
zusammen was lebt in der USCA, die Vereinigung der Schutzhundeclubs von
Amerika. Dort will man gerne wegbrechen vom existierenden Schauhundegewerbe-Establishment
und das Schutzhundegewerbe durch und für Leistungsleute selber bestimmen. Also!
WEG vom SV und der WUSV? Was schreibt Jim Engel dazu? Wie sieht er die aktuelle
Entwicklungen? Er fasst wie folgt zusammen:
Heinrich Messler and the Illusion of Power
Jim Engel
Power indeed
corrupts, but it is also fragile. Heinrich Messler is a case in point: as
emerging president of the SV and also the WUSV, the linear heir of Max von
Stephanitz, on the surface he would seem to be a man of enormous influence in
the realm of the German Shepherd Dog. But this is a world in decline in terms
of numbers, influence and credibility. SV puppy registrations are only a third
of what they were in the middle 1990s, and this trend is worldwide in scope.
The Malinois has emerged from obscurity to become more and more predominant in
police and military service throughout the world and even in Germany. The
Schutzhund trial has been watered down into IPO and it is a long standing open
secret that the show breeder dominated SV elite condones and encourages IPO
trials so lenient in terms of decoy pressure, procedure and performance
standards as to render the title meaningless as a certification of breeding
suitability in terms of working character and trainability. The Malinois has
achieved parity verging on predominance on high level IPO fields and has long
prevailed on more demanding KNPV and ring trial fields. (The Malinois superseded
the German Shepherd on French Ring fields in the latter 1970s, a precursor of
things to come.)
More
ominously the general population is coming to perceive that the SV and American
show line German Shepherds are pale imitations of the dogs who established
police and military service as the forte of the breed, that those German
Shepherds effective in these arenas are increasingly a separate population,
rapidly evolving into an entirely different breed.
In the world
this controlling generation grew up in those at the top wielded enormous,
uncontested practical power. A primary source of this was unquestioned control
of the dissemination of information, direct control of club magazines and
strong influence over other publications which supported the established
system. There was virtually no practical way for those outside of the
controlling elite to make their voice heard. The emergence of affordable
international travel, routine long distance telephone service and most
importantly the internet have in a way unimaginable only a generation ago given
the ordinary person the potential for parity in terms of reach. Internet Email
discussion groups, and later pervasive social media, created extensive venues
of communication and put the potential for real world influence in the hands of
the common man. An ordinary person now had the potential to collectfrom public
sources thousands of Email addresses of club officers, judges and the rank and
file of the working community, and thus obtain a voice with more immediate
reach than the president of USCA, the SV or any other office holder. These
trends have opened up influence over the election of even the highest officers
to the ordinary, unaffiliated commentator, diminished the real power of the
establishment elite.
Although Mr.
Messler would seem to have minimal grasp of real world dog training, even he
should be able to comprehend the principle that to give a command that you
cannot or will not enforce serves only to instill the knowledge that obedience
is optional and that the trainer can be ignored with impunity. This principle
scales up: when Messler grandly pronounced that use of the radio controlled
training collar is to be forbidden to all trainers affiliated with WUSV
worldwide he was immediately and publically repudiated by both USCA and the
American competitor he chose to hold up to ridicule as an example. The failure
of any WUSV action to implement such a restriction, and the fact that the
Americans have defiantly announced their intensions of ignoring any such
dictates, enormously diminishes Messler in terms of prestige, influence and
real power.
In the same
letter, Messler sought to reign in the grotesque extremes of the SV show ring,
and international shows under this influence. Although I am not intimately
knowledgeable of the internals of this grotesque exhibitionist venue, it
quickly became apparent that here again Messler was exceeding, and thus
diminishing, his real authority, that the evolution of the German Shepherd of
von Stephanitz to the Banana Back of the Martin boys would continue unabated.
What we see
before us is the ongoing erosion of SV power, prestige and influence, the
direct consequence of the abandonment of commitment to working character and
potential in favor of show ring fashion on the part of the controlling SV cabal
over the past several decades. This is part of the dramatic general decline of
worldwide annual registrations, particularly in the AKC and FCI nations.
The canine
show world, the purebred brand, is clearly in decline. This will be a
tumultuous time of transition, and in order to avoid being taken down as part
of the process the working community, also in worldwide decline, needs to grasp
this opportunity to reinvent itself in a form sustainable in the remainder of
the twenty first century.
It is time,
worldwide, to break free of the existing show dog establishment and conduct
working dog affairs by and for working dog people.
Jim
Engel, Marengo © November, 2016
13-11-2016 om 16:56
geschreven door jantie 
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