We have voluntarily ended our association with the MDBA as of yesterday.

 They are very threatened by competing dog breeds, but no other registry cares if we put MDBA dogs on the same website (as long as they are clearly marked) because they trust the intelligent public. The MDBA demands we put them under a different kennel name on a separate website.  My clients thought i was being deceptive for doing that. I can see why they thought that, but the deception was from the MDBA to cancel our membership if we didn’t obey new rules we never agreed to when we joined.  When a breeder is financially heavily invested, they’re trapped with ever changing new rules.  It’s not about protecting the “breed”.  It’s about protecting the humans profiting from it.  Common sense. 

This part is important.  We really don’t want a war with Australian Cobberdog breeders.  We wish them well, and I say that knowing they don’t wish us well.  We love the idea behind the Australian Cobberdog breed, or we never would have joined the MDBA in the first place.  We just never signed on to all the changes they made to it after we joined.  The over the top marketing of promises about the breed was my final straw.  Not every puppy in a litter can live up to blanket statements of what a buyer will get, especially not this early in the breed’s formation.  It makes the breeder they bought their puppy from  look dishonest, instead of the people who made those claims.