Oh also found out this: the original owner had two dogs; Gadget and another one, who apparently is her father. She is keeping the father. She paid $2500 for him. Supposed to be Ch. sired (I asked MIL for the AKC papers to prove it). Ch. sired and Ch. background are two very different things. Orig owner's sis has a female and they bred them several times. So in fact Gadget IS from a byb.
They kept the sire to "make more babies".
They gave away Gadget bc she was "free". I use the quotes in irony. They sold the pups for much less than what non papered pups go for in this area. Ergh.....