«Breaking News» Crufts is dog ‘abuse’, says Downton Abbey star Peter Egan

Actor and activist Peter Egan has criticised the Crufts dog show for using pets 'as circus animals'.

The animal rights campaigner and star of Downton Abbey has attacked the selective breeding enforced on competition dogs, and damage to animals in the search for perfect specimens.

Egan has also criticised the pageant format which he sees as harmful to women and children who also compete to fit a physical ideal.

He has branded children's beauty pageants abusive, and the adult competitions degrading to women.

Peter Egan in a publicity picture for Downton Abbey, appearing as his character Shrimie

The actor believes that Crufts perpetuates pure breeding, which leads to harmful genetic conditions, with the dog's health secondary to its appearance.

Writing in Radio Time magazine, Egan said: 'We are so used to seeing these shows and it is so traditional that we don't even stop to consider whether it is right or not.

'How long are we going to continue to use our pets as circus animals?

'For me, the problem with Crufts is that it offers the pursuit of physical perfection in a way that is damaging, and one that I would compare to child beauty pageants and beauty contests.

'Beauty contests, in my opinion, do a disservice to women, while child beauty pageants are literally a rejection of childhood and a form of parental abuse that does emotional as well as physical damage to the child.

'In my view it's the same with Crufts.

'The dogs suffer the physical degenerative decay that inbreeding creates in order to achieve the perfect specimen imposed on the poor participants.

Peter Egan, Downton Abbey actor with his black Labrador Cassie on Good Morning Britain 

'If Crufts were a trade fair for the best and latest model in the car industry it would fail at every turn.'

The Crufts dog show is held each year in Birmingham, with fierce competition from owners to secure the Best In Show award.

The full opinion piece by Egan can be read in Radio Times magazine, out on Tuesday.

He has previously come out against the testing of animals in laboratories, encouraging people to sign a petition against the impending slaughter of six labradors in a university in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

He joined Ricky Gervais in speaking out against the killing of the dogs who have been tested on extensively. 

Venus, Milia, Mimosa, Luna, Lotus and Zuri are due to be killed at the end of this month so that studies can be carried out on their tissues and blood after being used for dental experiments.  

In November last year he threw his weight behind a campaign to ban foie gras pate being served around Christmas - citing the damage the process of obtaining it does to the goose. 

It is not illegal in the UK so Egan used his voice to urge restaurant owners to impose a self ban on the food. 

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