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Originally Posted by Mardelin  Nope, you do have to pay AKC. However, a the breeder where you pup was obtained, should have provided this to the owner. |
Yeah, in answering the direct question about a free website, I thought OP was asking about that since a breeder pedigree was unavilable in this instance.
So many casual or BYB's just don't offer anything like that at all. I was astounded during the year I was looking for Tibbe and would break down and call newspaper ads how many Yorkie breeders here offer no such thing as a pedigree!
Some asked me things like "Do you want a great dog raised by a loving family or one of those inbred freaks with a piece of paper?" - other such revealing things. Even for an unsophisticated and ill-informed Yorkie lover like me with little experience in the fancy, their attitude and responses about a pedigree were pretty
interesting.
Many of them filled me in about the show Yorkie breeders and the horrors they said were associated with "show line breeding" I think is one phrase used. Even I knew better than that and very quickly closed such calls.
To the uninitiated out there looking for a Yorkie in this area, many BYB's really know how to play the game and posture about their breeding for a "good family dog" supposedly free from all the inferred problems that "high-class" breeders obviously don't care about and on and on. It is a very eye-opening experience to see the class warfare some of them wage on respectable Yorkshire Terrier breeders. "Pedigree? What good is that and why would you want it?" is the attitude of some I spoke with during my search. I got the feeling with more than one BYB that asking about lineage was talking dirty!