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Article: PETS & THEIR PEOPLE: SCANDAL OF THE CRUFTS CYBERDOGS; TV vet Joe slams top show over pets bred to life of suffering.(Features)
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- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2001
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Byline: CHARLOTTE SELIGMAN
ANGRY TV vet Joe Inglis has slammed selfish dog breeders at Crufts who put their pets' health at risk in a bid to win the top trophies.
Joe - star of Vets in Practice and Blue Peter - says some owners are so obsessed with producing the perfect, almost cyber-like dog that their animals end up deformed.
As the world's most famous dog show opened on Friday - after being postponed earlier in the year because of the foot and mouth crisis - Joe, 28, told the Sunday People: "The ...