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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  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. |
I agree that the stock market would have had an effect on their profits, considering the stocks have dropped considerable for all the other investors . The reason I stated that I thought they have seen a decline in profits may have a lot to do with the decline in people registering with them is because of this quote from an investigative article....
"Unable to distinguish itself as the premier registry that we know it is, the AKC found its registrations in serious decline. We have all been bombarded with this news, but suffice it to say that in six years – from 1999 through 2006 – AKC registrations dropped by 249,428 dogs and 113,066 litters. Those figures are even more significant for our discussion than a simple formula of number of dogs registered times registration fees, since most of the commercially-bred puppies are sold with at least one supplemental transfer fee. During the initial, dramatic drop in these registrations, an officer of the AKC stood before the delegate body and said that although we had lost a significant chunk of the commercial breeders, we really “don’t need the puppy mill dogs.” But someone clearly thought we did."
The reasons for it are probably multiple......