I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW

MAIL FRAUD AND FAKE TITLES

by Sam Harper

There’s a song that went “I can see clearly now”.  That music keeps running through my head every time I log on and read more about this sport (sport?) that my daughter is so obsessed with.  She loves the dogs and says this is her outlet for it.  She has always loved dogs but there was a time when she enjoyed them because they were dogs and she could tell them all her little secretes.  Now she tells them to “dog people” and plays grown-up games and never has time for just enjoying her dogs and I pick up the poop.

By the way, I don’t mean to go on about my kid but I really enjoyed that article about Apples Don’t Fall Far.  She would be good to write for you.  I agree with that mom, when they get competitive and caught up in clubs, it stretches how far those branches reach.  My daughter knows what is right but I hear that song and I keep thinking about how we used to say we can’t see the enemy for the __ , I don’t want to be incorrect here but I fought in a war where we could call the enemy by his ethnic name.  Anyway, she can’t see the enemy is us, I think one of your snoop writers said that. 

Should we stop trying to help our kids just because they are grown?  She just doesn't realize that people who play the game gain the shame.  I’ve been called a lot of things but being blind didn’t get me through the tough times in my life. I talked to her about this AKC thing and about what you dog people call animal activists.  She is intelligent and debates pretty well but she still lacks the wisdom of age.  I guess it only comes along with the aches and pains.

She doesn’t see herself as gullible and yet she tells people on the phone that her dogs are “top quality” and discusses their ancestors like she was quoting from Genesis.  She spent less time in the bible than she does on those pedigrees.  She doesn’t seem to understand what some snoop said last week, that AKC is selling worthless pieces of paper.  Any other business we would see it on the 6:00 as mail fraud.  When I asked her about qualified registration papers she said it is a way of protecting breeders.  Made no sense to this old guy so I did a little research online. 

I see it as a way to get out of trouble over worthless registration papers.  If they were car lots, they would be under indictment but AKC gets by with just saying Oh, we are sorry that we gave you the wrong title, the one that said your car is a BMW.  It really is a VW, just a typo there.  Don’t worry, here is the title that plainly says it is VW.  See?  Its just fine now.

It amazes me.  People buy that!  My kid thinks AKC is doing the stud book a favor.  Says AKC is “protecting the integrity of the stud book”.  Do you believe she said that?  Talk about seeing things differently.  AKC admits the stud book is a lie, that there are so many dogs in there that don’t belong and they got caught and now every one knows it is a lie so now they are going to protect the dealership by issuing a fraudulent title and making people feel all warm and fuzzy about it?  I reckon those guys have a little grey in the hair because they know that people will soon forget what a real certificate of authenticity ever was.  Then they can sell that fraudulent car to some one else and tell them it used to be a BMW and it doesn't matter that is looks like a VW, it has four wheels.

I read about an AKC judge who forced AKC a long time ago to do a recall on a bunch of Shetland sheepdogs.  It seems there was a lot of them that came out of a dog called Thousands Cheered, except nobody cheered when the fraud was exposed.  So before the FTC or attorney general weighed in, AKC cancelled some registrations.  I guess the grey heads had not thought about qualified registrations at that time.  From what I learned, it was a long time before the internet so they must have felt pretty safe that not many would find out about it.  But now they have.  I wont bother with the details because I don’t understand most of them anyway but I know a diversionary tactic when I see one.

You guys keep putting the truth out there and some day they will get you, or shut you up, or maybe enough people will see the real poop and whoever is doing this at AKC will face charges.  I read that AKC makes 60 million bucks a year.  How much is from mail fraud?  Stuff like that brought enron and other corporate giants down.

Well, that is all I have to say.  I know it was long but it has been brewing for a while.  I tried saying it to my daughter but she respectfully did not want to hear it.  Maybe people who read your website don’t want to hear it either.  I just wanted to say it.

S. Harper  SamHarper@Bellsouth.net

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