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Originally Posted by cekaai  It's a multi million dollar business. JMO they are all money hungry and the only reason AKC is so "prestigous" is cause it has the most money. For the right amount of money you can have your non-AKC registered pet compete in AKC compeitions. |
Well, I personally prefer AKC and my yorkies are AKC and my other dogs in the past have always been AKC. I like a certain look for my animals and I find that look generally comes from AKC breeders. Their breeders, in my opinion, are more reputable for the most part, of course with any registration you will have your bad breeders but at least with the AKC most of the breeders breed for the betterment of the breed and to be within the standard and as far as I know they get checked up on and can have their licenses revoked if they are not abiding by AKC standards and regulations.
I don't you'd find a AKC breeder breeding a 3 pound female or 10 pound male....
Though I have seen and talked with breeders who are CKC who have 8-10 pound males they use as studs for their 13 pound females...and one breeder I talked to told me as soon as her little girl went into heat she was breeding her 3 pound female to her 2 pound male
Boy did that get me mad!!
I've not heard of any non-AKC registered pet competing in a competition. I'd be suprised to see a CKC or an ACA or any other type of registration besides AKC compete at an AKC competition. As far as I know the pup has to have AKC parents, if can be unregistered and you can register it with the AKC but only if it has AKC bloodlines. I don't think you can take a CKC dog and get it AKC registration and put it in an AKC dog show...that's why there are seperate competitions, ones for CKC and AKC and so on...because the standards are different.