Canine coverage in the doghouse
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The BBC will not televise Britain’s biggest dog show for the first time in more than 40 years after a controversy about canine inbreeding.
The broadcaster said Friday it had suspended coverage of the 2009 Crufts show “pending further investigations into the health and well-being of pedigree dogs in the U.K.”
The Kennel Club, the show’s organizer, and the BBC have been at odds since September, when the broadcaster aired a documentary claiming that decades of inbreeding had led to serious health problems in some pedigree dogs.
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