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... NO
to this new AKC legislation.
Thanks for your efforts
to this end.
Pam
Simmons
... hard to
believe that AKC is willing to register dogs without
papers! What happened to the limited registration
that prohibited dogs from being bred? What about the ILP
that was available for dogs so they could compete in
performance. Breeders put a limited registration or
withhold registration papers for a reason. If
we
don’t feel the dog is worthy of being bred,
why does AKC feel it should change that.
Cheryl Hassett
This is just
nuts!
Anything for the almighty dollar.
Our club delegates have just about had it with all
the terrible decisions this past year.
Laurie B Farley
I
find this action ... absolutely
appalling!!!! The AKC propaganda to the
public about "demand AKC papers" has
caused us all problems, mostly because, it
makes it difficult to hold off sending
papers until proof of spay or neuter since
AKC tells them they should DEMAND the
registration upon picking up the dog. I
have numerous times had people breed and try
to register dogs that were sold to them on
limited registration. Guess what? Unless
you just happen to find out about the
litter, AKC registers the puppies anyway.
Limited is really not much of a help. I do
a contract with every dog I sell and YES, I
have have had to send it to AKC in order to
prevent them from registering a litter for
people. It seems that white out can turn
a limited dog into a fully registered
one...WOW! Is there anything we as
breeders can do about this? Jolene Davis
Years of
careful breeding and controlling which animals
can join the gene pool overridden by minimum
wage clerks with no understanding of genetics or
passion for my breed, much less the fact
that's my kennel name and reputation at
stake. The AKC needs to decide - are they
for the sport of purebred dogs or just a stupid
paper mill for profit. This registering
of questionable dogs puts them on par with the
Continental Kennel Club and other paper
mill registries.
Susan Thibodeaux
The
betterment of the breeds and the breeders
who follow the rules. NO. the breeder sold the
dog with a limited registration for a reason! If
they do not want a dog without AKC papers, do
not purchase one. Enforce the breeders to give
papers when sold with them. Limited registration
is fine, I have a dog I adopted from rescue with
limited, she can do all the sports and
obedience, just not show.
Donna Shelton
... this is
ludicrous. A breeder should have the right to
say if a puppy from their breeding is of
breeding quality. Also puppies that are sold as
pets with the intent they are altered are
generally sold at a cheaper price. The AKC's job
is to register dogs the way the breeder
intended they be registered, period!
Nancy B.
... responsible
breeders sell our pets on limited non breeding
registration for a reason. They should not be
able to be bred period. By doing this you
will remove the power that the limited
registration carries and that allows us to sell
puppies w/o spaying and neutering at 12 weeks of
age. Please reconsider ... do not
allow some animal that is presented as a pure
line AKC breed from contaminating the purity of
the AKC stud book. That is what the
AKC is supposed to do. To protect the stud
book.... This is not doing that job. Mary
Childs
This "service"
destroys every serious breeders all efforts
to keep our breeds up to real standard and with
good health .Something to be proud of being a
part of. Don't let inferior dogs and bitches get
full papers, that gives them full right to breed
and so forth. Barbro Lindberg
... When I withhold papers or mark papers LIMITED, I
do so for a reason. There are serious faults in
every breed and it is looking like now we will have
to get all our puppies spayed or neutered
before they leave in order to guarantee that their
offspring don't get registered. ... when you are
placing 8 week old puppies, it is very risky to do
such a major surgery, not to mention the long term
effects of early spay/neuter.
-Linda Kepner
NO, NO,NO, NO!!!
Enough said! Lorelei Sims
I hope for our sake "responsible
show breeders", that this will not
pass. I will not even get into why this
should not pass. The AKC should know
better and stand up for the people that have
supported them for so many years.
Christine Swartz
This defeats the original purpose ... I'm sure glad
that I am no longer breeding / selling AKC
registered papillons! Jan Berger
This is a "below
the belt" blow to serious breeders - why would
you even consider it? Dorothy Kendall
I do not agree with the new AKC
registration service that the AKC has apparently voted
in and approved with minimal, or no, input regarding
the harm it will cause. It would seem to be only an
attempt to simply gather additional monies while
providing no benefit whatsoever. Steve
Kath
... I believe that the
current rules will take away the control
breeders have as to whether they can sell a dog as a
"Pet" not to be bred. The only way a breeder could now
be sure that a pet ... is not bred would be to spay or
neuter it BEFORE it is sold. ... a possibility for some
breeders, but not for many. Please reconsider the
change in the rules -- what point is there in limited
registration and/or withholding papers if the AKC is
willing to ignore the breeder's desire and fully
register the dog anyway?
... this is just another way the AKC has found to increase
its registration income. Please consider the welfare of
the dogs and not just the AKC's bottom line.
Susan Bryant
Frankly, I see no
difference in this than any other income producing
action taken on the part of AKC. It doesn't
surprise me, as they're always looking for new
avenues for increasing revenues. And just because
it steps on their breeders, doesn't mean it's out of
the question. They've been stepping all over us for
years, and because we don't take up arms against
them for it, they get away with their actions time
and again. Just like when the alpha dog rolls
any puppy who doesn't complain, AKC will continue to
roll us, precisely because we don't complain.
David J. Arthur, SMSgt, Ohio ANG
This is a
mockery to any ethical breeder and ...
purebred registry! AKC has one agenda
-REVENUE! Unfortunately, this makes
me never want to pay another registration
fee, enter another AKC show or event, etc.
Has anyone read the AKC's mission
statement? In my opinion, this new
policy contradicts their published mission
statement. Over the years I ...
watched hundreds of dogs come forth with AKC
papers marked as chocolate Labradors only to
be silver in color and a result of a
Weimaraner-Labrador mix. What has been
AKC's policy? "WE ARE A REGISTRY
BODY, WE DO NOT DETERMINE COAT COLOR
GENETICS" Then when DNA came about, it was
too late to dispute the parentage of these
so-called silver Labradors that AKC
gladly registers still to this day as
chocolate labs!! Have you ever seen a black
Maltese? Have you ever seen a solid liver or
black Dalmatian? Have you ever seen a
yellow Weimaraner? GET READY FOLKS.....If
AKC continues on the track they're on,
ethical breeders of purebred dogs will be a
thing of the past. Teresa Gordy
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I am
against this sort of registration. But then - I am
against AKC withdrawing their opposition from CA AB1634.
And - I am against AKC working in the dark and ignoring
their "customers'!
And - I am against the pompous, arrogant words that have
spewed from Steve Gladstone.
AND - I am appalled that Dennis Sprung reneged on
a meeting in Portland this past weekend, and apparently
no excuse was given!
So - you see - I am against a lot of what AKC has done
recently!!! Especially - throwing us in CA "UNDER
THE BUS"!!! Carol Hamilton
Let’s hope the
outcry is loud enough and AKC will reverse this
unacceptable rule. Bonnie Hansen
I do
not feel this new rule will benefit the Association and
it will definitely not benefit responsible breeders. I
personally spay/neuter my puppies before they leave my
home. The owner is entitled to the registration
papers. I would not sell what I feel is a puppy not
of breeding quality for someone to breed.
We
also raise registered Quarter Horses. Horses that are
not of breeding quality are sold as geldings.
Believe me it takes a very good stallion to make a good
quality gelding. I feel the same principle apples to
dogs. Nancy Holman P.S. It would appear the
Puppy Mills are becoming more numerous in Wisconsin.
Some people feel they are being driven out of
Pennsylvania and are moving here.
I am opposed to the new
registration service being offered. If the
purebred dog was not registered or put on a limited
registration, then the breeder, for some good reason,
did not want the lines to continue. This decision by
the responsible breeder when selling the puppy
should be respected by AKC. Terry Moss
Many are looking to
the UKC to show! For 65.00 on a
weekend, you get 4 show entries and the
possibility of a championship! Mary
E Kasher
How can
I continue to stand 100% behind my lines if I cannot
guarantee control over which puppies are allowed to carry on
these lines? It would only take one unscrupulous owner
to have my line produce puppies that do not meet the strict
health, screening, temperament and breeding standards that I
have spent decades in establishing. If dogs that
responsible breeders deem to be "pet quality" are allowed
breeding privileges it will undermine the integrity that we
have spent years and small fortunes building. I urge the AKC to reconsider the ramifications of this registration
service toward those who are fighting the hardest to
maintain the integrity of the purebred dog. I am not
writing this because I am against the AKC....far from it, as
I am also an AKC Obedience and Rally judge.
Catherine
Peters.
… let's
fight this .. It undermines the efforts of ethical
breeders. Laurie S. Coger, DVM, CVCP
I sell
all pet puppies on spay/neuter and LIMITED registration. If
they are allowed to change the limited registration people
will also probably not spay and neuter! On the other
hand I guess I will no longer be giving my buyers AKC PAPERS
because of this AND the fact that they can change the
name on the papers! Only the puppy I keep will be
registered with AKC.
Heidi Brauch
As
someone standing outside the issue completely, I thought a
registered dog with AKC papers was a big deal. Then I met a
woman who purchased a toy poodle and had a difficult time
getting the papers. When I stopped by her house a year
later, a big dog jumped on me so hard it knocked the breath
out of me. I did not think that was a toy poodle, in fact,
I could not have identified his breed, yet she had AKC
papers that proved that he was a toy poodle. I guess for the
money, your dog can be any breed that you wish him to
be. The whole situation has got to be offensive to anyone
who breeds purebreds. Nel Liquorman
This
is ridiculous!!!! I might as well stop registering my
puppies at all and just sell them without a contract to the
person with the most money~!!! I've been doing this for
over 10 years "the right way” but this is a slap in the
face … I’m getting out of breeding … because of this
kind of crap. Feel free to forward this email to AKC or
anyone else. I'm FED UP!!!
Amy Loy
This is an outrage! This makes them no better than the
bogus registries out there. Lorie, Sandragon
Mastiffs
AKC registration is absolutely worthless, in my opinion.
This new rule proves that AKC is all about money and could
care less about breed integrity or animal welfare. If I were
queen for the day, I would abolish the AKC and put
certification/pedigree into the hands of the breed clubs…
Shame on the AKC! The fact that they made these changes
secretly and then refuse to speak up when challenged just
goes to show their poor character. I suppose they thought
the changes would go unnoticed.
Laura Beck
It is a slap on the face of
breeders that AKC would re-register dogs that
breeders deem not breeding quality, why is AKC failing its
original purpose? Is AKC so money hungry that they have to
resort to this to create revenue?
David Osuna
I question that
the inquiries from owners asking for information on how to
register puppies/dogs they have not themselves bred are for
legitimate reasons in line with the breeders' wishes. My
experience is that most pet owners who have purchased dogs with
limited registrations could care less if their puppy is
registered or not. I do think it is irresponsible for breeders
to sell puppies without limited registration which makes it
clear what is the breeder's intent in selling the puppy. Older
dogs placed without papers mean to me that the breeder did not
want the dog bred, and why would the buyer then ask for
papers if the buyer was not intending to use the dog for
breeding? ... This is a real case for breeders and rescue groups
neutering at least adult dogs before they go to new homes. I
hope that the AKC will stand behind limited registrations.
Birgit Rhoads
This
new rule would be a determent to all breeders who want
to improve lines and eliminate genetic defects.
... Is breeding inferior stock what AKC is all about
now? Is money the only thing they are thinking about?
What is going to happen with all of us that show dogs,
and breed to improve the breeds? What will an AKC
Championship title now mean? ... try to keep the cost of
pet puppies down so the average person can afford one.
With this new rule I will be forced to keep puppies
long enough to have them spayed or neutered
myself ... This cost will then be passed on to the
public. Either that or I stop breeding which will in the
long run be a detriment to AKC. If all responsible
breeders stop breeding, stop showing, where will that
leave AKC then? Is this what the HONORABLE AKC is all
about now? Just puppy mills and money? Is money
the bottom line for AKC? If so, the future of our sport
is in serious jeopardy. ... If they need money so
bad why not offer people with these unregistered dogs a
companion dog registration? ... can be done
instead of this sneaky underhanded ruling!!!
Tammi
Stidham
Bad idea. Destructive to good
breeding, and lacking ALL common sense. We
say, no, no, NO! Please don't do it! Lynda
Jewell
Don't agree
... Makes me want to stop breeding. They
might as well call themselves the "New
Continental Kennel Club." They
will register anything. Pat H.
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