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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  The Pedigree is just a paper with the puppy's family tree. It lists parent, grandparents, great grandparents, and so on, with champions listed in red. Some breeders don't even have it themselves, but you can still get it from the AKC. Years ago, you could just look at a dog, and know it was purebred, and since AKC was the only registry, I suppose some people didn't bother with the pedigree papers. I personally wouldn't get a puppy that was not AKC, and it's the first step in selecting a good breeder, but hardly the only step. |
Yes I know about pedigrees and what they are.And just because its an AKC dog, it might not be great quality nor the breeder. What I am saying is that if you buy a pet quality dog from an AKC breeder but the breeder does not give you the AKC puppy papers but does give you a pedigree, AkC will go ahead and register the puppy. That means that the breeder just sold a nice pet puppy and you get full breeding rights and AKC papers to boot. I am not sure how the AkC can get around this as there are no breeder signatures anywhere and how does AKC know that the puppy is the same one you got from that breeder without going through DNA testing. This is the rumor that I heard. Hopefully it is not true.