REGISTRY, Breed & kennel Club NEWS

Dateline July 2007- AKC has found a solution for Pedigree Fraud (see links below), quite possibly prodded by recent legal actions and complaints.  Subscriber Gloria Lambert, Tanya’s Toys, was the first to send the announcement regarding the new Conditional Registration.  Without notice, discussion, or feedback from the fancy, we predict this notice will be met with mixed reactions:

IRRESPONSIBLE BREEDERS will embrace it as an incoming-saving solution for "mis-matings." 

GOOD BREEDERS will see it as fair when compared to the cavalier manner in which AKC began accepting any pedigree "from the country of origin."   

COMMERCIAL BREEDERS will rejoice.  They can "rescue" or steal a purebred dog, DNA it, breed it three times and viola! it becomes valuable AKC Registered Breeding Stock.

"The Conditional Registration program will foster better relationships with dog owners who discover that there is an unidentified ancestor in their purebred dog's pedigree," said Thomas Sharp, Assistant Vice President of Compliance. "Now these owners will not be penalized with a revoked AKC registration and the loss of a majority of its benefits. For example, a dog with Conditional registration may still participate in any event in which ILP dogs may participate, including Obedience, Agility, and Rally."

Conditional registration also offers informed breeders the ability to keep these dogs and their offspring in a breed's gene pool. To register a litter out of a sire and dame with conditional registration, both parents must be DNA-profiled. After three generations of DNA-profiled parents, the registrations will revert to regular for the litter in the fourth generation. This protocol is in line with the acceptance of imported dogs with three generation pedigrees from the country of origin.

For more information visit: http://www.akc.org/condreg or contact the AKC DNA Department at: dna@akc.org. 

Want more background?  Unfortunately, there is much more.... ___ Handy links:

Pedigree Fraud Part One - Bulldogs, Kuvasz, Samoyeds
Pedigree Fraud Part Two - Bulldogs, Kuvasz, Samoyeds
Pedigree Fraud Part Three - Mastiffs
Pedigree Fraud Part Four  - Defranco Kuvasz

March 2007 AKC Chairman's Report

Michael Wolf & Gordon Trottier, Mike-Mar Puppy Mill;

BUSTED! Part 1

GUILTY!! Part 2

SPIN!!! Part 3

Addamo Asks...   Who Protects The AKC Stud Book?

UPDATE: "Conditional Registration" was followed in 2008 by AKC Board approval for the AKC Administrative Pedigree Research Service which will register a non-registered pet or puppy-mill dog that has an AKC pedigree background.  The newer and broader Pedigree Research Service has far-reaching implications affecting breeders who have traditionally protecting their breed's gene pool and their own kennel name by withholding papers on pet puppies, particularly those carrying or exhibiting serious genetic defects.  There is also concern that thousands of non-AKC registered puppy mill dogs, which may not even be purebred, will corrupt the AKC stud book.

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