Well I can answer this because we have almost the same situation in Germany. We only need one exhibition result of very good, one special breeding exhibition that´s nothing serious, one x-ray and an eye-test every year. We had and have still the same problems with judges on FCI-shows and of course we have breeders that think they have an excellent dog because it managed to get the German champion titel. We have German champions that wouldn´t pass the bonitation because of their exterieur mistakes. We still have a lot of problems. But things have improved a lot because we have several people that show their dogs in the Clubshows in the countries of origin, we now invite specialised judges to the German Club show, we organise Endurance runs and Bonitations, we ask people not only to x-ray the hips but the ellbows too. Of course we can force nobody to join them though we are working on harder breeding conditions. We have to look differently at some of the results because we are at the beginning (the countries of origin did that too, by the way) but though we had a lot of fights last year and some people left and started their own Club do we get a lot of help from outside because we are trying to improve things. And there are more and more German judges that are improving their judging and that actually see the breed improved a lot.
And there are also people from Luxemburg, France and Belgium that come to Club shows and bonitations. There was just a new Club founded in Belgium to improve things.
To say "the others aren´t doing it" is the wrong way in my eyes, you can start doing things, it needs some effort but isn´t impossible and you will find a lot of people helping you if you look at the situation globaly not nationally. I don´t agree with everything I see in the countries of origin but I can not know how too make things better if I do not know how things are done at all.
Ina
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