Selling on a limited registration is just one thing a breeder can do to prevent someone from breeding a puppy that is not breeding quality-- if the new owner does not care about AKC registration for the puppies (thus the existence of the Central Kennel Club etc.) he or she can still breed the dog and sell its offspring. The only real way to be sure that a dog you sell will not be bred is to spay or neuter it before it leaves home. I am not in favor of early spay/neuter so I would need to keep my puppies through their maturity before they could be placed. I breed papillons (have one yorkie now though : ), and I greatly prefer performance (agility or obedience) homes, and those homes prefer younger puppies generally and usually only have a handful of dogs and no interest in breeding. Luckily the majority of my "puppy people" are long time friends from these sports and have great dog ownership track records so there is less I need to do insofar as immediate background checking. I do require references, including from the individual's veterinarian, before selling a puppy, esp. to someone I do not have a long standing relationship with. In addition, I have a very good puppy sales contract (and my buyers know I will enforce it-- I am a lawyer LOL). To me, background screening is so much more important than the type of registration that is given (although I do only give limited registration because if they are going to breed it there is no reason for full registration). I do have in my contract that if they want me to reevaluate the dog as show potential as it gets older they have that option and we might shift the registration to full, but so far no one has wanted to do that as they tend to want to spay/neuter as young adults because it makes performance events somewhat easier to train for and a heck of a lot easier to plan to attend if you don't have a bitch coming into season LOL. |