Whether buying for pet or show in the US, if you are buying an AKC registered puppy or dog, papers should be provided to the new owner. The AKC Registration is NOT something to be frivilous about in my opinion. They are supposed to be verification of purebred status of the puppy you have bought. It is not just a birth certificate.
It lists the registration number of the puppy or dog you purchases, the registered name, the registration names and numbers of sire and dam, the name of the breeder and your name as the owner.
In Canada under our Canadian Kennel Club regulations, any breeder selling a puppy as purebred must be registerable under CKC and with any breeder as a member in good standing witht he Canadian Kennel Club, I am required to register my litter, register each individual puppy and put through the transfer to the new owner at my expense at no extra cost to the buyer. If I do not meet these requirements, I can be fined by the CKC and will lose my priviledges with the CKC until the papers are provided to the buyer.
Consider that it costs me about $50 per puppy to do all the registrations. It is less than that in the US as the AKC fees are less than ours.
So the excuse to not provide registrations would be????
If a purebred breeder is questionable, DNA testing can be done on progeny and parents, if matches aren't met to who the parents are on the certificate and/or the puppy or dog may not actually be purebred, the registration is revoked. I believe that is also the case under AKC.
As I understand it, the AKC has started in the last few years to advise anyone buying a AKC registered puppy to insist on the registration paper from the breeder. That is supposed to be provided at no extra cost to the buyer of the puppy or dog.
What I do here, is provide the contract which is also a receipt which says on it that the registration papers will be provided within six months of the date of sale. That you need to have from the breeder in writing to pursue it either with the AKC or in court if you don't get the registration.
I don't worry about spay/neuter as it is done before a puppy is sold in most cases. On occasion, if I sell a puppy between 4 and 6 months, it is in the contract for spay/neuter and I can write in that it must be done before registration papers will be provided. I don't sell less than 4 mos of age. I don't ship so easy enough to follow up. |