This was a bit of a witch hunt from start to finish from ALL sides. There's no innocent party here.
What a shame another person has been driven off, and in their own introduction thread...!
Pretty sure she could have contributed a lot.
I was one of the first people to ask the question back on page five and it was a genuine question. Not a demand to health test but an true inquiry as to why one would go through the expense and time of X-rays then not take the relatively small, but important to a breed's development, step of recording the results with some objective and public agency.
I think it's frustrating to many people here (who are not in any way involved in the Koolie "controversy") to have an established breeder of Koolies on the forum and think, at last we can find out why Koolie breeders don't health test! Not second-hand information but straight from one of the sources! And then be playing in a house of mirrors with constant deflections and distractions and accusations of agendas instead of a straight answer, and then when the straight answer comes (cost and time) it doesn't really make sense since most of both the cost and the time are already being expended, according to our own experiences with having hip rads done. The question regarding eye tests and such (being a collie breed) was, to my knowledge, never addressed at all.
I really don't think it's a double-standard beyond all of this already being hashed out with Linds and SaraB regarding their breeder choice and no one really wanting to get back into it. People understand their choice or don't, or vehemently disagree with their choice, but in general I think folks understand it because they answered straight. As a contrast to this thread, where pulling an answer out of all the unsubstantiated claims and other unrelated drama was downright difficult.
Chazzers tend to care about and be knowledgeable about dogs in general. Koolies tend to incite special interest because they seem to be a breed that would fit so many of us very well...but there are so many unknowns and skeletons in closets that it's hard to justify actually taking that step especially for those of us who are involved in any sort of strenuous activity with out dogs and want to stack the odds as best we can.
As we've seen many times on this forum, no matter how knowledgeable a person is, their contribution will always be limited by their ability and willingness to engage in respectful open discussion. The respect may have been lacking as this thread devolved and people became frustrated, but to say it was a witch hunt from start to finish is rather exaggerated. I know several of us (Aleron, Laurelin, myself, etc.) did try to remain polite and just get answers and discuss, but those answers were not forthcoming.