Is The Kennel Club an Underground Cult?

Posted by on Dec 31st, 2008 and filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Normally I wouldn’t need to ask such a bizarre question. But having just read the annual address from Kennel Club chairman Ronnie Irving I feel compelled to re-examine whether the Kennel Club is a simple, albeit powerful, private member’s club, run for the benefit of its members – enthusiasts of pedigree dogs – or if it has moved in to the territory of the Scientologists, Stonecutters or the Freemasons.

Why?
Well here’s how Mr Irving opens his address:
In this column in January 2008 I started off the year by predicting “greater interference from the outside world“

Erm, what?

“Greater interference from the outside world” – well that answers at least one of my questions, does the Kennel Club have independent PR advice? Doesn’t look like it!
When I read comments like this it makes me cringe, genuinely. It makes me take a deep intake of breath and wince. I read stuff like that and I [...]

Link to full story Ryan O’Meara and Content aggregated by Dog News