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My main Irish Glen Of Imaal Terrier & Jack Russell website at http://freewebs.com/bailielands

My new overflow Glen site mostly pictures ad Glen only blog stuff at http://anbrocairebui.webs.com

Just for the Jacks http://bailielandsminijacks.webs.com/

Something a little different .. my blog on how my life has changed since learning about the Law Of Attraction... http://personallifechanges.blogspot.com/



Back again to this wee blogspot. i've been not using it since i set up anbrocairebui because i used to have to post pics tp photobucket for this blog and then to here and it got tiring. But now i've set it up to take pics direct from my email.

You may want to check out my other blog The Garden Of Eden at http://personallifechanges.blogspot.com/ to gain rather more information than you probably wanted to know about me :) But i guarantee you the Law Of Attraction info i'll put there is not hokum, it is stuff that has changed my life.

In this post i wanted to emphasize the point again that our standard for the Glen is a maximum of 35lb at 14" at shoulder for dogs and bitches accordingly less. No amount of justifying will change the maths if your dog is outside this he is too big for the breed. If judges continue to ignore this simple statement of size it only further reinforces the perception of show driven breeding as faddy and fickle. Worse the glen people out there are ignoring their own standard every time they choose a show winner who is outsize to breed to rather than a correct dog.

This is a clear warning from me here and now.

if you breed a achrondoplastic breed heavier and bigger you are inviting serious structural defrormity and weakness. the breed as a very robust healthy and strong working dog has knocked around for some time here in ireland, but by changing it, making it bigger, heavier in bone, it is becoming clumsy, weak and prone to joint problems.

Let us consider the English Basset, once a French hunting hound... The English Bulldog once a bullbaiting terror.... bred by show people heavier and heavier and what have we got today.

Just a word to the wise, the standard has given us a clear enough picture of what Glens were in their heyday of strength and vigour. Lets keep it and not go changing it again as was done in the 90's to suit certain people's dogs and ignoring the breed as a whole.

Don't matter to me other than when I'll need an outcross to freshen up the line, I'm going to find it pretty hard to find some actual glens out there, some of these so called Glens are like another breed from the Irish type.

Plus just because a dog is bred in Ireland does not make it Irish if its breeding is mostly from overseas kennels, its not like people you know :) we get citizenship by getting born somewhere but a dog is Irish bred if he has Irish lines period.

Not all 'Irish' glens are Irish at all, especially not in type or form.