I agree that if you do not plan on breeding, it doesn't matter. But with my personal experience with CKC - "Continental Kennel Club" I would not get another dog that was registered with them. I had a dachshund, lets put this right, a "mini" dachshund, registered with ckc, and when I sent papers in, for parents, grandparents, etc. they could not find not only the grandparents, but the Parents. My little Charlie grew to be 22 lbs, which we all know is not a mini dachshund. Of course I loved him very much, and got attached to him right away. He ended up having seizures for the 6 years I had him. Medicine did the best it could for him, and I cried every time he had one. I lost him over 1 1/2 years ago. But my point here is, I did have a small female I did want to breed him with, and after I got him, and fell in love with him, I could not return him because he got big. I did end up having him fixed because he was too large to breed with my female. So on his CKC papers, no parents were listed. I wonder what would have happened if I would have breed him with my female? The puppies would have shown parents, but no grandparents, at least none on the father's side, the seizures could have been passed on, and no one would have been the wiser....................! |