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Originally Posted by Mardelin  As a member of the an all breed club and the National Club, I will disagree with you. The national club requires sponsorship and not an easy club to get into. If members are found committing infractions on the Code of Ethics or AKC rules they are suspended or banned.
Granted there are those that slip through the cracks, but it is dependent on the membership to keep things honest. |
My point still stands. Whether they are a member of the all breed club or a parent club, you still need to get references because "those that slip through the cracks" might be the one that you buy your dog from. Does the parent club check on the members to see if they are following the Code of Ethics and AKC rules? or do they rely on the members to watch each other? I'm really curious about the way they are able to keep an eye on all of the members. It has always been my belief that this was accepted on good faith in both the all breed clubs and the parent clubs. As a former member of an all breed club I also had to sign an agreement to follow the code of ethics and the akc rules (even though I was not a breeder or exhibitor) or get suspended/banned as well; but noone ever checked anyone. I left the club because all they did was work on putting a dog show together and since I didn't show I left.