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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s  In regards to THIS particular situation, what AKC will or won't do should be irrelevant. Your original agreement with the breeder was not to pay the extra for the AKC registration--it's unfortunate that you lost contact with her, but until you regain it, you should honor that agreement. To go behind the breeder's back years later and try to register the dogs anyway is underminded and shady, IMO.
I say this because if I were the breeder and found out, I would be FURIOUS! And that's only IF everything was what the breeder claimed it to be...for all you know, the breeder never had breeding rights on the dogs to begin with, and therefore, neither should anyone owning any offspring they produced. |
I was just posting the info in case someone else wanted to know the program with the AKC.
And, as far as the number of breeders who left the AKC because of the cost, we aren't talking about your typical reputable breeder, we are talking about breeders that have a lot of litters and are trying to maximize costs, especially those that sell to Hunte and Lambriar - those brokers don't care about what the papers are, just as long as there are papers. For a breeder like that, with maybe 30 litters a year, well, $10 saving per litter adds up.
Not that I condone those breeders, but the AKC needs money, too. They need all the registrations they can get.