2 things here:
1. AKC charges $35 to $40 for doing the DNA testing. I do not know if they will DNA a dog that isn't registered with them but I suspect not. To do their DNA test, they send you a kit and it is just like you see on the CSI shows, swab the inside of the cheeks. You send it back to them and they work up the results. You do not have to wait for them to ask for DNA testing. If you can afford to have it done and want it done, do it.
2. When I got my first Yorkie, Pirogue, and he started getting so big, I was very angry at people for saying he wasn't a Yorkie. Just because of his size?!!! How stupid! What does the size have to do with his breed? Not a thing! I hadn't planned on showing him or even trying to show him. Why did they have to be so mean? I was no threat to anyone, I just wanted to love my dog and it sure wouldn't have hurt my feelings to have ANYONE say how cute he was. Even if they qualified it by saying "even though he's so big." Sylvia |