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Originally Posted by jp4m2  Cindy, I did accidentally come across the site The Dog Press and thought their articles where informative. I see it will let a person read some articles but then I have to join to get access to others... I might join so I can get more info...
I agree that they seem to have a very high income coming in.... I don't believe the loss of income is from the stock market. I have seen several articles stating that AKC is losing a lot of income because pet owners are not sending in their registration papers and the millers and byb are going to registries that are easier to file with......That would explain their desperation of wanting to associate with the Hunte Corp and Petland..... |
I feel Dog Press can be very educational from what is really going on in the dog world. It is not always pretty but I don't think the breeding/show world is very pretty either.
Because AKC is non-profit we should be able to see the complete year-end report and see the real story. Can't cheat on this or the governement will shut them down. Actually I do believe a big portion of their loss of income was the stock market as I have read almost all of their Board Meeting notices since 1999. I haven't found it yet but it should be public notice. I don't know what their income really was from pet owners and a lot of BYB probably never registered with them in the first place since they had lousy pedigree's.
Actually AKC finally backed off some of the volume business they were going after which is why they finally decided to get into agility with mutts. They decided they wanted some of the revenue on this.
There is a great deal of information out there if people really want to know the truth.