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Originally Posted by Bittsy  My dog is a pure breed dog!!! I do not know why she is only CKC registered but at the time I bought her it did not matter |
She may very well be. And her lineage could very well include lots of AKC registered ancestors. But once an AKC dog has been bred with a CKC dog, the pups and all their progeny can only be registered CKC, even if bred with an AKC dog in the future.
Right now, the AKC doesn't allow a dual registration, though the CKC will accept an AKC registered pup in to it's registry. For better or worse, those are the rules.
That's because the CKC has lots of loopholes that allow people to register mixed dogs as pure breds. All they have to do is send in a few pictures and have a couple of people (a vet, a groomer...) say the dog APPEARS to be a pure bred, no DNA tests required. Unless and until the CKC does away with that loophole, I don't see the AKC ever reversing themselves on the issue.
One of the things that shocked me was that some unscrupulous breeders would use female silkies to breed with male yorkies. The dogs appear to be full bred yorkies (though not standard).