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The reason this broadcast was made is stated above. With this broadcast, attention is again paid to the problems of the purebred dog. As far as we are concerned, there can never be enough attention paid to that. As long as the puppy buyers keep saying "You actually expect you buy a healthy dog when it has a pedigree ..." there is work to be done. A quote from Frank Wassenberg of the PvdD: "If an animal with a pedigree has epilepsy then you should not want that pedigree, blood has to come in from outside". To the question "What do you think about the fact that breed purity is so held on to?" his answer was “only the external characteristics of those animals are regarded, but then you indeed all get all kinds of problems under the hood, so to speak. Yes, you have to get rid of that ”. Such a statement makes us happy. This is what Gaby Bemelen wrote about the broadcast on Facebook: Epilepsy in the purebred dog: "It is very simple, you must not want to be breeding sick dogs." According to Mandigers, neurologist and until last week a member of the Board of Directors of the Dutch Kennel club. You would think that to be obvious and a given, even more so since breeding sick dogs is prohibited by law. Nevertheless, Doedijns, director of the Board of Directors of the Dutch Kennel club, thinks that democratic decision-making is more important than to stop breeding dogs with epilepsy, even though that is prohibited by law. That is roughly what I gather from his stammering last night at Radar. "The board took a board decision November last year to put together a plan of action we will consult with the breeding clubs, and in this way establish a controllable policy. We will have to submit the policy in a democratic way to our members. We will organize a number of information meetings, after which we will put the proposed plan of action on the agenda for the general meeting of the members .... In this way I am confident that Dutch cynology will make the decision to implement a responsible breeding policy including epilepsy. " According to Mandigers, this is not happening fast enough. As far as he is concerned, breeding with mothers, fathers and full brothers and sisters of dogs with epilepsy must stop tomorrow. If you can prevent sick dogs from being bred you have to prevent this and that is not being done enough now, says Mandigers. Doedijns trusts that it will be settled within a year ... And to think that epilepsy has been a problem for a number of breeds for years and the legislation since 2014 states that dogs with a hereditary defect may not be bred. Epilepsy also occurs with the Mastiff. PS: statement by Doedijns, director of the Board of Management 'a healthy puppy that joins a family and is eventually bred after 7 or 8 years'. Nonsense! That is not even allowed according to the basic rules of his own club (A female, from which puppies were not born before, may not be mated after the day she has reached the age of 72 months).