Hope this helps clarify. You must get a rabies shot and register your animal with whatever governing body that applies. For instance..I live in a county in MD and I have to register each dog each year for LICENSING purposes ony. That is a legal issue and if you don't license your animal there can be legal ramifications.
Registering with, oh say, AKC, ConKC, ACA or APRI is simply a choice you can make to do or not to do. If you register your animal with AKC you can then request a pedigree and so on. THIS REGISTERING HAS NO LEGAL PURPOSE. So, there are huge differences in the purposes for registering.
Does this help? I think your trainer was mistaken in her understanding or just didn't go into the issues enough. |