California Pedigree Law
 

Has anyone heard about this California Pedigree Law, which states:

Dog Pedigree / Registration Disclosure
It's the Law!
California law (Chapter 530, Statutes of 1991) requires that dog dealers and dog breeders who sell a dog represented to be registered or registerable with a dog pedigree registry provide the buyer with a notice that pedigree registration does not guarantee a healthy dog, the quality of the lineage, the accuracy of the lineage recorded, nor that the dog is purebred.

This law defines dog breeder as any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other association which breeds and sells dogs at wholesale or retail.
Therefore, as a breeder you are required by law to give your buyer a Dog Pedigree Registration Disclosure statement on a SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER FROM OTHER FORMS.

If you do not comply with this disclosure requirement, you are liable to the buyer for civil damages equal to three times the cost of the dog. The buyer must make his/her claim for payment within one year from the date the dog was sold.
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I do not live in California and always sell my pups with a contract and give out their litter perigree and go over what it means.
The reason I wanted to share this is that some people are out there buying these pups up without the statement and then actually suing for the 3 times amount. They do not really care for the pup. So what is happening to these pups?
T.

Very interesting! I wonder if other states will follow.

It is something I heard, but not sure if correct. Is there a law like this?

This was all that I found...:confused:

http://www.sacramentodogcouncil.com/rosenthal.html

Thanks. I like that site for the further information. If you as a buyer wanting a nice healthy purbred dog and was a novice - and go to the breeder to buy your baby and heard this - you might get the wrong impression.

Also - can you imagine someone going around buying up pups just to sue and not thinking of the pup. Sad.

what the heck??
 

what does this mean? the statement that a the dog being registered is not pure breed? I thought that was what AKC was ALL about PUREBRED DOGS?? now i know CKC will register mixed breeds but it states on the paper what they are. pure bred or not so what gives?? :confused:

It is not from AKC, but actually a law in California, which tells what breeders must do when selling pups. This law applies to people selling CKC (Continental) too - if in California.
They are trying to inform buyers that the papers are only as good as the breeder's ethics - this also applies to all the breeders ethics going way back in the generations too. I think this is why DNA registration is becoming popular now.
AKC will visit someone if they breed - it is just a toss of the dime when - to check records, etc.. In my all breed club about 1/3 of members have been checked - all checked out well, of course. We also just had an AKC inspector come to speak at my club and it was very interesting. At least they (AKC) do go around and check -as best they can. They check records, conditions of dogs, and area where the dogs live. The main thing they also check is litter records - whom you sold to, make sure all records are up to date and filled out completly and correctly - they can also ask for DNA on the sire and dam and pups to make sure it is correct. I think it is a good idea, because not everybody is ethical and it makes them do what is right. I do not think at this time that CKC (Continental) checks or makes visits.
But the California law does make it look like buyer beware. I was afraid of this. You could be a great breeder and do everything by the books, but it does send a negative message to buyers.

My main concern about this too - was that there are people going around California buying dogs where the breeder does not know about this law and then sueing the breeder. Now what about the dog, what happened to it, does the buyer really care for the dog? :eek:

T.