Personally, I would never buy a dog that wasn't AKC registered. I'm sure many that are registered with others are wonderful dogs, but from what I understand some of these registries were implemented because for some reason or another were not eligible for the AKC. For instance someone buys a male and female with limited AKC, meaning the breeder only wanted them placed in pet homes, not for breeding. So when they have puppies they cannot be AKC, so these other registries have popped up so these puppies can have "papers". If you are truly interested in perhaps breeding, you should be looking at AKC dogs over others, as some of the others will register dogs that may not even be full yorkie. |