An Open Letter to Johnny Filart, Philippine Canine Club Inc (PCCI )Treasurer

Mr. Filart I have read your article in the PCCI Quarterly and I think it’s time to get out of your gilded cage and let’s start calling a spade a spade.

Jesus said, “Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.” As a lay-minister you surely have not been practicing what you preach.  YOU are a genuine hypocrite.  Quoting your  article in the PCCI Quarterly: “A dog lover who bought more than 140 dogs from abroad, more than half of which had papers that were not accepted by PCCI.  The pedigrees that came in with the dogs were issued by non-affiliates of FCI and AKU from as far as Russian and as close by a Thailand .  Obviously without papers, the progeny are worthless, in the owners’ own words.”  You conveniently failed to mention that the person who imported these dogs was your business partner/pet shop owner Mr. “R” and YOU were the person trying to facilitate the registration of these dogs with the PCCI a few years back but didn’t succeed!    Now you are in the Board you package yourself as a self-righteous inhabitant of this planet championing the cause of the pure-bred dogs when you  breed and sell pom-spitz (Pomeranian x Japanese Spitz crosses).  How long do you think your little secret can be kept that your are actually a dealer of illegally acquired exotic animals and you and your business partner Mr “R” have broken the law many times smuggling these animals into the country?  Now that’s straight from the horse’s mouth from the person you sold rare endangered turtles to, only for him to find out the papers your provided were falsified all along.  He is willing to testify to this fact if you insist because it is completely true.  You deposited his check and he has all the papers from you to prove it.

You openly criticize the AKCUP throwing everything at them including the kitchen sink.  Why?  The PCCI as the dominant club doesn’t have to resort to these cheap crab mentality tactics.  The PCCI is the ONLY dog club in the WORLD who prohibits its members from participating in other dogs clubs.  First world countries including the United States & Japan have several competing dog clubs and they are co-existing together peacefully and nobody is sanctioning anybody, haven’t you heard of freedom of choice, free enterprise or simply freedom to enjoy the dog sport without your kind breathing down every dog owner’s neck?  Is it perhaps because the AKCUP is doing something right that got you all fired up?  Are they cutting into your profits and it hurts so bad?  Remember your stint as President of the long extinct guinea pig club where your competitors were ostracized?  Anyone who didn’t buy guinea pigs from you were not welcomed in your club. You always bad mouthed your competitors whose only sin was not patronizing your own “Johannbernhaus Caviary”. You were always the judge at your shows and only animals bought from you won.  Naturally people saw you for what you really are and your club folded up months  before it’s first birthday may it R.I.P.  Now you peddle this same crab mentality in the PCCI and it is destined to suffer the same faith as your long demised guinea pig club.  If you are the astute businessman as you proclaim yourself to be, you would know the basic principle that competition produces  efficiency & quality, sad to say the PCCI has neither.  That’s why a new club was formed because dog owners have given up hope trying to correct a system so fatally flawed that it is much easier to start a new club. Have you heard of the Lehman Brothers?  Such a strong institution backed by 125 years of experience could fall due to one wrong investment.  Much more for a small dog club with hardly any competition for the last 45 years, all it will take is one stupid & greedy administration to sink the whole ship.

 “A person is presumed innocent until proven guilty”.  A simple doctrine of the law but not in your books.  You openly criticized the past administrations accusing them of crimes against the club, against you and against all of humanity but it is only based solely on rumors and up to this day no formal charges have been filed. After three years, all the big talk, saber rattling and witch hunting amounted to a big ZERO. There were insinuations that an under the table deal had been struck by the administration and the accused.  In your dirty little mind you took it upon yourself to be judge, jury and prosecutor condemning the past administrations with no hard evidence but only your word against theirs.  Surely you and your cohorts in the present administration have more to offer in terms of hard evidence of the corruption within the PCCI . 

Your own blood relative and current PCCI president Bong Natividad admitted publicly that over seven (7) Million pesos mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of the club under your own watchful eyes and only one sucker agreed to be the FALL GUY and allegedly admitted to the crime against all the improbability that no one else dipped their hand into the cookie jar.  For how long will this sucker/sacrificial lamb keep his mouth shut? Only time will tell. 

Do you remember your stint as consultant of Philippine Airlines when it was under the control of the Cojuangco group?  Did Mrs. Filart know what happens behind the closed doors of the private parties YOU organized with the PAL flight attendants?  Want more of the deep dark secrets you thought were carefully hidden and long forgotten? People that live in glass houses should not cast stones. When you face the mirror everyday do you like what you see?  OH NO IT’S JOHNNY!