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Tony
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Dear Sir,
I understand you are the moderator of the Congaplace Forum. Please regard this letter as a formal protest against the defamation of myself done by another member of the Forum ,Tony *edited*, using the nick of CongaDr.
Hereby, I declare that I have never owned any pit bull, never used or trained any dog for dog fights and never participated or supported this sort of activity!
On the contrary, I have been involved in training dogs as responsible animals which can live in the moderns society. I own only one breed of dogs, ie Central Asian Ovtcharkas. They are originally flock guarding dogs used in Central Asia to protect mainly sheep against wolves and other predators. In recent times the breed has also been used for dog fights in Central Asia and Russia and other post-soviet republics and that is why it has been included in many lists of fighting breeds.
However, I would like to strongly stress that all the dogs I own have never been used for dog fighting. All of them have been continuously shown at dog shows, national an international, and have gained champion titles from dog shows. If they have ever been used for fighting they would have been disqualified from shows. Additionally, all dogs I keep have participated and completed training courses for obedience and have won medals from competition in obedience with the highest score in Poland including other breeds. I have certificates for all my dogs which can prove the above. The dogs which I co-own and do not keep in my garden are all kept by a certified expert in dogo-therapy for disabled children. I myself think CAO’s should not be used for dogo-therapy with children because you can never 100% rely on such a powerful animal. Thus, for that purpose she uses only her Labradors and Cavalier Spaniels but my CAO’s are there during the sessions and show no aggression towards either the patients or other dogs. I can only ad that I myself have five daughters and would never venture keeping dangerous dogs used for fights with my family. All puppies from my kennel have been given to responsible owners, I believe, and many of them are also shown at dog shows and trained for obedience. To support my point that I am a respected and responsible citizen I can only add that I have been a senior lecturer/reader at the Gdańsk University for over 20 years and also an full-time adviser to the President of one the leading banks in this part of Europe (by the way an American bank). It would rather be difficult to mentally combine these with being involved in dog fighting.
I do agree that my email to Tony *edited* was not very clear in what I wanted to say but first I am not a native speaker in English, for what I apologized in my previous emails to him, and I wrote most of my emails to him very quickly without checking and analyzing how he would understand them. Let me know explain in more detail what I meant by the words in which I referred to fighting dogs:
1/ I did not say my hobby is dog fighting but training fighting dogs! I did not mean training them for fights!!! As I already wrote above, we train fighting dog breeds (CAO’s have been unfortunately included in the list) to be accepted by the authorities and not banned. The time which I referred to in my email to Mr *edited* was the time when such a list was being prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Poland and following the example of other European Union countries, the UK being the first, they wanted to ban breeding and even keeping such breeds altogether. We have won the battle thanks to such efforts like I and my friends did, to show that CAO’s can be perfectly manageable in the society.
2/ I wrote that the sport was banned in Poland but I do not mean dog fighting! I see it may have been understood here but it rather shows bad will of the reader. I meant training breeding, keeping and showing fighting dog breeds. Now, we can keep such dogs but they cannot be trained for guarding or personal protection. It is banned. Most trainers refuse even obedience training because they are simply afraid of such breeds. As I wrote above we managed to protect the fate of CAO’s in this respect because they have been crossed out of the list. I love the breed and many other breeds included in the list, eg Rotweilers. I cannot agree that dogs should be kept only as decoration. They should have some other tasks to perform, such as protecting, guarding, hunting and the like. They need it to feel needed and happy. How could I include dog fighting in this list of making dogs happy?!!!
Depriving dogs of any function but decorative is imposed by various regulations and laws now imposed on Poland by the European Union. Dogs must always be muzzled and on leash, cannot bark, show aggression even when protecting the owner or his property.
Should you like to check the information about myself given above I can give you my full address:
*edited*
I have my kennel registered with the Polish Kennel Club, which is a member of FCI. For information on myself and my dogs you can contact them. You can find their contact data at the web site. The name in Polish is: Zwiazek Kynologiczny w Polsce. You can also contact the Polish equivalent of the British RSPCA. Their Polish name is Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zwierzetami. Eventually, you can report my case to the police. There is nothing I should be afraid of.
Having said the above, I demand public revocation by Mr *edited* (CongaDr) of all that has been said about me on the Forum. I will not accept explanation that it was caused by misunderstanding because I consider his behavior deliberate defamation. He knew me from my previous emails and had no right to suspect me of what he charged me with. In my mail to him I did not write I have or ever had pits, use them for fights or support dog fights. If my language was not perfectly clear he should have first tried to clarify it with me. Instead he wrote to me in very harsh/vulgar words and stressed he will not read any more mails from me as he will automatically place them in spam.. This way I could not explain the case to him. Then he decided to accuse me in public on the Forum using vulgar words again and also presented there our recent exchange of private mails which referred to a completely different subject (before the case with dog fights I asked him no to do it so as not to touch people who own congas of makes which I do not consider first class instruments). In my opinion, he showed unjustified aggression. Moreover, he suggested that proper Western education is what I could get only in the US , hence implying Poland is not part of educated West!!! Unless, he revokes all his words and apologizes in public on the Forum, I will have to refer the case to my lawyers.
Please consider this email as en explanation to you yourself. I will not regard showing it on the Forum as a satisfactory closing of the case. I do not blame you or other members who responded to Mr *edited* post because they have reacted in good faith and cause, only where misled by Mr *edited*. Should you need any further information or something I wrote was still unclear (although now I hope I spent enough time on this mail to make it clear) please contact me.
Best regards,
*edited*
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