I have no papers for Wookie, as she was bred from two much loved family pets and not purchased from a breeder. I know she had the best of care for the first 8 weeks of her life, I know her parents are both happy, healthy dogs, I never intended to breed from her anyway, and papers couldn't make me love her any more than I do.
When we first got her my mother asked if we had KC papers for her, and was a little bit.....I hesitate to use the word 'disdainful', but that is the one that fits the closest.....when we said that we hadn't. Like it made Wookie less of a Yorkie because she didn't have a piece of paper saying she was one. .....but apart from us now there is no-one who loves Wookie more!
I guess what my rambling is trying to say is this....are papers REALLY that important, as long as you have a happy, healthy, wonderful dog?