I will give you my honest opinion. If you want a dog to love, IT DOES'T MATTER! We have one dog from the humaine society, and she is better than any dog with papers. PAPERS DON'T MAKE THE DOG. I do have AKC dogs, but also dual registar them with the APR. There are more APR shows offered in my area, and the people at the shows are way more down to earth than the ones I've encountered at AKC shows.
ACA is a very reputable registary. They are the ones that provide alot of the search and rescue dogs in this country.
Don't let anybody make you feel bad about having a dog that is not AKC. If anyone asks you if she's registared just say "yep, she's papered." The majority of the people out there don't know that there is more than one registary.
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