Mountain and Pearl Make It to ABC's Nightline

Mountain and Pearl made it on to ABC's Nightline last night in a segment called "Best in Show?"

Click here to see the whole thing.

Also featured, of course, were Pedigree Dogs Exposed, Jemima Harrison, Ronnie Irving, Marc Evans, James Serpell, and this blog (yes, this blog!), with excellent reporting by Nick Watt of ABC.

Best of all, the fear of the AKC was featured front and center.

This is an enormous multi-million dollar organization with splendid (and expensive!) headquarters on Madison Avenue in New York City, but they cut and run when asked to explain the dogs.

Now there's pride!

Not only would they not even attempt to defend what they have done to the dogs, but they sent out a notice to all the breeders and top breed clubs to cut and run as well.

God forbid that the Dalmatian owners explain the deafness and the uric acid stones in their breed, that the bulldog owners explain their dog's defective respiratory tract, that the chihuahua owner explain the hole in their dog's skull, or that breed after breed explain the jaw-dropping rates of cancer and dysplasia.

Of course, having told all the breeders and dog show people not to talk, but to send all press inquiries to the American Kennel Club, the AKC then turned around and said it also would not talk to the press!

And what are they going to say this morning? Simple: the show was biased! It did not represent their views! Who are you going to be believe, they will say, your lying eyes and the number one news station in the world, or our paid apologists and slick Madison Avenue liars-for-hire?

And who cares if the dogs are defective by design and hamstrung by disease?

Don't you know the AKC now sells veterinary insurance and recommends veterinarians as well?

Sure we sell poison -- but we sell the antidote as well!

It turns out -- and no, I could not make this up -- that selling health care for defective dogs is now the AKC's new busines plan!


Mountain slides in while Pearl supervises.
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