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Originally Posted by jencar98  That's shocking! 
I haven't posted much here but have been reading many of these links and the posts. My mind is overloaded with facts, figures and thoughts. Even though AKC didn't start out to be the registry it's become, it is now, what it is - a profit making business. Is it time for outside oversight of AKC? If so, that would be a shame....... just another business that lets greed get in the way of ethics I get so fed up with it - as with other business greed, there is too often a loser on the other end. And, in this case it's the poor suffering puppymill dogs. |
I can't think of any possible oversight that could be imposed. What they're doing isn't illegal, just as puppy mills aren't, except for when they go over the line as far as cruelty and negligence goes. AKC has become the premier registry due to the dogs and breeders associated with it and they've taken that cachet and squandered it. Money talks and everything else walks.
The pedigree fraud may be illegal, but it's really a side issue, though one could infer that, with the AKC's presence at dog auctions, some of that may be going on.