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BBC">In the dog house — no Crufts on the BBC

Crufts has star­ted, but if you were wait­ing for the TV cov­er­age you might not have real­ised. The BBC has sus­pen­ded its cov­er­age fol­low­ing con­tro­versy over the dangers of ped­i­gree in-​​breeding.

Last year, the Beeb screened a doc­u­ment­ary about the deform­a­tion and disease-​​prone nature of some ped­i­gree dogs cel­eb­rated at Crufts.

The pro­gramme high­lighted the many health prob­lems caused by in-​​breeding, which has made Boxers more prone to heart dis­ease and epi­lepsy, put Dal­ma­tians at greater risk of deaf­ness and given Golden Retriev­ers a propensity for cancer.

So as Crufts events begin today, dog-​​lovers will have to go online to watch the action rather than set­tling down in front of their TV sets. Crufts organ­isers the Kennel Club will stream the four days of events at www​.cruftslive​.tv, with high­lights avail­able from ?

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Ori­gin­ally posted 2009-​​03-​​05 11:29:00. Repub­lished by Blog Post Promoter

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