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First of all we would like the thank all the visitors sending us positive comments about what we do. Our ‘Classifieds’ section is a major success and everyday we are getting new advertisements plus emails from satisfied customers who got good responses for their advertisements posted on our classifieds page.
We are going to start a new feature where our site users can submit pictures of their pets, and we will publish them in our ‘Photo Galley’ section. This is a totally free service as well. All you have to do is email good quality pictures of your pet, with a little description attached, to info@dogslanka.com and we will publish them here as soon as possible.
Sweet little Brindie
changing pictures!”
How to register a dog in Sri Lanka?
How to register a dog in Sri Lanka
If you plan to register a dog at the Kennel Association of Sri Lanka (KASL), you must have the following.
Countrybred.
1. Both parents of the dog that you wish to register must be registered at the KASL.
2. You may also need to enter the dog in the next following dog conformation show regardless of your dog’s quality
3. If your dog is already registered under the breeder’s name then you must transfer the dog.
Imported.
1. The dog must have an Export pedigree or Certified pedigree and should come from one of their affiliated clubs. Original certificate should be hand over to the club for verification.
2. Export Pedigree should be in the name of the person applying for the registration of the dog.
If you plan to register a dog at the Ceylon Kennel Club (CKC), you must have the following.
Countrybred.
1. Individual registration is granted only to dogs born before 1st January 2008 if your dog is already KASL registered then the original copy should be shown at the office for verification. If the dog is KASL registered and not in your name you should apply for a transfer.
2. CKC accepts registration from KASL.
3. CKC only registers litters going forward.
4. Going forward all individual registrations will not be allowed unless it’s a club to club transfer or an imported dog.
5. If your dog is pure bred and up to breed standard then you should be able to register a dog via “BREED RECOGNITION” program by the CKC. This is subjected to an overseas dog show judge’s discretion.
Imported.
1. The dog must have a registration from any club. Original should be submitted for verification.
2. Proof that the dog had actually landed must be declared by submitting copies of the airway bill, quarantine health report etc…
If you plan to register a dog at the Breeders Kennel Club (BKC), you must have the following.
www.dogslanka.com has no details for Breeders Kennel Club at the moment.
How to import a dog to Sri Lanka?
How to import a dog to Sri Lanka
It is relatively easy to import a dog into Sri Lanka. A person firstly must seek approval from the Department of Animal Production and Health in Peradeniya. An application form can be downloaded by visiting there website www.daph.gov.lk
A duly filled application along with the vaccination record for the dog should be faxed/ emailed to the Director General of the DAPH.
Permission to import will be granted within a few weeks.
Once an approved application is at hand one can work on import of the dog.
A suitable airline approved box needs to be purchased and airline booked, be cautious here as some airlines do not have live cargo hold and always try to book a direct flight to end destination.
A health certificate issued by the country of origin’s veterinary department or agricultural department (depends on the country) would be required. Be cautious here as some countries the certificate would only be valid for 48hrs, this means the dog has to be shipped within this time frame or you will have to get a fresh certificate.
Once the dog arrives your dog will subjected to a health check at the air port, ensure all the documents are in hand. In the same time you may have to pay duty for the dog. If your dog came accompanied it is much easier to clear. If your dog comes via cargo village then you may need a TIN # to clear the dog. We advise you get a wharf Clark to do the needful.
There is 1 month quarantine but this is mainly at the address declared by the importer. The animal should not be sold during this time and if sick or in the event the dog dies the DAPH should be informed.
Do not buy any dog that has not completed its quarantine period.
Special Report : Websites Trying To Copy What We Do
We have been informed by our visitors that another recently launched website is trying to accuse Dogs Lanka of using/copying their articles/database information. We investigated the matter and would like to post following details.
Domain Age (source : http://www.seologs.com/dns/domain-check.html)
Results for dogslanka.com :
Domain Created on: October 01 2008
Domain age (approximately): 9 Months, 5 days. (Today is 4th July, 2009)
Results for discoverdogslanka.com :
Domain Created on: February 10 2009
Domain age (approximately): 4 Months, 23 days. (Today is 4th July, 2009)
From above information you will clearly notice that we launched our website in 2008, five months before discoverdogslanka.com. In fact, they have tried to copy what we are doing and copied our articles which were posted on this site 4-5 months before their website was launched. We ‘discovered’ dogs lanka on the net before anyone else.
Below is a line I copied from this site claiming that we have copied their articles,
“It had been noticed that some websites are now copying and using articles originally issued by Discover Dogs Lanka plus using its database as a source of information to update there own database and you.”
Let us take a closer look at their articles and so-called database. If you visit their “Articles” section, the first article you will see is “Birthing Puppies” (http://www.discoverdogslanka.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202:birthing-puppies&catid=5:articles&Itemid=17).
We manage to find out several other websites which has published the same article long before they did. Below find the links to these websites, containing the same article. Talk about original content!
1. http://www.petstyle.com/ask-the-vet/i-have-female-shih-tzu-about-6-years-old-and-about-have-puppies-it-important-get-x-ray-b
2. http://www.justanswer.com/questions/1xjar-know-dog-pregnant
3. http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=678
4. http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_giving_birth_to_puppies.html
*there are a total of 10+ exact matches.
Now, let’s have a look at other articles in their so-called database with original content.
Article name : Temperament Testing Puppies
URL : http://www.discoverdogslanka.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201:temperament-testing-puppies&catid=5:articles&Itemid=17
This was copied from one of the following web pages
1. http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=2141
2. http://www.riospitbull.com/dog_aggression.htm
3. http://www.standardpoodlesusa.com/temperament-test.html
Let’s move on to the next article,
Article Name : Transmissible Venereal Tumor
URL : http://www.discoverdogslanka.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=200:transmissible-venereal-tumor&catid=5:articles&Itemid=17
This was copied from one of the following web pages,
1. http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=1650&S=1&SourceID=42
2. http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_transmissible_venereal_tumor.html
We found that 90% of the content they are having are duplicate content copied from various other websites on the net and from us. It will be a waste of time to list all these. The 3 examples above will clearly show you their idea of ‘original content’.
If we want to copy content, there are loads of huge dog related websites filled with articles written by professionals. We have copied certain articles from these website and published them here giving the credit to it’s original writer and always having a link to the original source of the article. We have not, or have any need of copying content from a website which was launched few months after we launched our website and trying to copy our concept.
It will be better if this website try to do something unique and productive without wasting time accusing other people of stealing their content.
We are aware that the moment they see this report, they will try to remove or modify the pages we have listed here. We have taken “screen captures” of all these pages of discoverdogslanka.com, and if they try to do this we will post them here as proof.
Furthermore, if you have visited our website 6-7 months ago and remember our old layout, you will notice that discoverdogslanka has shamelessly copied 06 image icons from our old layout. If you are interested, I have the PDF files which I used to create these icons for our old website layout and can be emailed to you as proof.
Thank you for reading this special report. We will continue to monitor their behavior.
If you need any further information on this matter, please don’t hesitate to email us on info@dogslanka.com
Puppy Mills and Backyard Breeders vs Responsible Breeders
By Kathy Diamond Davis
Article source : http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=1448
Does it really make a difference where you get puppy, provided you find the breed you want? Yes, absolutely. If you’re not planning to breed the dog to produce winning show dogs or dependable working dogs, it might seem unimportant to seek out a breeder who strives to improve the breed with each litter. Actually, it’s vitally important, and ignoring this concern can lead to sad times in your home.
What Is a Puppy Mill?
The term puppy mill is a label that every breeder denies applies to them. Every pet shop denies that their puppies come from puppy mills. So what exactly is a puppy mill?
Other names for this type of breeding operation might be puppy farm (sounds idyllic, doesn’t it?) and commercial breeder (sounds professional). Wherever dogs are produced for profit, the animals are at risk.
It’s seldom profitable to breed dogs humanely and responsibly. The profit comes when dogs live their lives in cages, rather than with human companionship. The profit comes when commercial operations provide only the minimum requirements to keep a dog alive and able to breed. Filth, loneliness, fear and pain constitute the typical life these dogs know.
Puppies produced in this situation have the wrong start in life. Experiences in the early weeks are critical to a dog’s development. Commercially bred puppies miss vital experiences they need during this time, and they are exposed to experiences that harm their emotional stability for later. One experience many of them have is to leave the mother and littermates far too early in order to be in the pet shop on display for sale at the “cutest” time.
Behavior problems you may experience with a puppy from this source include housetraining issues because the puppy has been confined too close to feces and urine. This causes damage to the pup’s natural instincts to keep the den area clean. These pups have also typically missed important conditioning to appropriate surfaces for defecation and urination. They may never have even been on grass.
A frightened mother dog can transmit her fears to her pups. Leaving the mother and littermates too early can result later in biting problems, since the pup has missed early bite inhibition that needs to happen in the litter.
Breeding dogs who have lived normal lives will have been observed around children, men, other dogs, cats, strangers, unexpected situations and other things that some dogs cannot handle. If the temperament of either parent isn’t safe around humans, a responsible breeder will not use that dog for breeding. Dogs in a commercial breeding operation do not live normal lives, so the breeders do not know whether the dogs they use for breeding have reliable temperaments for family life. Decisions about which male to use with which female are based on profitability (how many puppies they can get in how short a time), leaving genetic issues for the unsuspecting puppy buyers to worry about later.
The physical problems that result from a poor start in life as well as poor genetic selection of the parent dogs can also profoundly affect the behavior of a puppy bred by a commercial breeder. Pain and fear cause dogs to react defensively. Dogs don’t show their pain in the same ways that people do, and often a change in behavior is the first sign-sometimes the only sign-that the dog is ill or has a genetically based health issue.
Responsible breeders make their breeding choices based on producing puppies with the genetics for both good health and good temperament. Responsible breeders will be there for you later if there are problems. A responsible breeder will place each pup personally, not through a third party such as a pet shop or dog broker. The commercial breeder is not interested in any problems you have beyond the time your purchase check has been cashed.
What Does the Term Backyard Breeder Mean?
Another attempt to define various kinds of breeders results in the term backyard breeder. This term is used to describe people who breed dogs without knowing what they are doing. The motive may be profit, and occasionally someone of this sort will make a tidy profit from turning out puppies without spending the money to provide them with good care.
More typically they’ll produce one litter, find out how expensive, exhausting and heartbreaking it is to breed dogs, and have their female spayed. The American Kennel Club estimated in 1996 that about 70 percent of purebred, AKC-registered puppies were from this source.
The backyard-bred puppy may make an all right companion dog, if the parents were good companion dogs. Genetic health and temperament problems may be waiting to emerge as the pup matures, since this type of breeder isn’t likely to have done the appropriate testing of both parents to make a good genetic pairing. It’s completely a gamble as to how things will turn out with a puppy you acquire from this type of breeder.
You should expect that these pups will have missed early experiences that a responsible and knowledgeable breeder would have provided. It’s also likely some things will have been done that were not good for the future temperament of the pups, such as mishandling by children.
These puppies are probably the cheapest pups to purchase, especially the ones the breeder can’t sell at the most profitable “cute” age. Responsible breeders have homes lined up for their puppies in advance. They have acquired reputable credentials on the appropriateness of the parent dogs before breeding, in the form of testing for genetic problems common in their breeds as well as titles or other verification that the dogs are good examples of their breed. As a result, their puppies are in demand. The unprepared, uninformed person who decides to give breeding a try is surprised to find there’s no demand for carelessly bred pups, especially at high prices.
Without care for making good genetic matches between purebred dogs, it’s the nature of breeding for the healthiness of the breed to deteriorate. Only a strenuous effort to maintain good health in the breed prevents this natural effect. In the wild, survival of the fittest works to preserve a species. Unlike wild canines, dogs who live with people don’t have to be able to hunt for their food, and they can live with severe disabilities.
As a result, there is no survival of the fittest among purebred dogs unless breeders make responsible decisions to remove the less fit from the gene pool. Unlike nature wherein these dogs would die, in our homes they only need be spayed and neutered and then live out happy lives with loving people.
What’s Best for You?
If we were to discuss what’s best for the dogs, it’s certainly for them to be bred only by people who will take excellent care of parents and pups. Great suffering in dogs is alleviated when breeders refrain from reproducing genetic problems. Only breeders who put the welfare of the dogs ahead of profit make these difficult decisions. To learn how to make the right decisions, responsible breeders work with experienced mentors and do a great deal of study.
Such a discussion would also include the inhumanity of keeping a dog in a cage for a life whose sole purpose is to produce puppies for human profit. Every puppy purchased from such a source is a powerful vote. That purchase makes it profitable to breed the parent dogs again, and the cycle of suffering continues.
When you see a puppy, you don’t see that suffering. It’s easy to think that suffering that happens in commercial breeding has nothing to do with you. Sadly, chances are good that you and the puppy will become part of the sad cycle of suffering. Genetics play a huge role in dog temperament, as do the experiences of the first several weeks of life. Getting your puppy from a responsible breeder is not only a socially responsible thing to do, but also the best way to wind up with a healthy puppy who grows into a healthy and happy dog.