concretegurl | 11-27-2010 10:58 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by DvlshAngel985
(Post 3340878)
I said it was WAY higher than it would have been if I had sent in the papers early on. You don't think a $50-$60 penalty fee is outrageous? I do! The only reason I would pay the fee (which I can afford, thank you very much) is if Kaji does well in agility classes and I'd want to seriously compete. Or, getting his good citizen certificate.
And of course all pets are on limited registration. It means you don't have permission to breed. Unless a dog came from someone who doesn't give a hoot, then that's another story. I have receipts, vet records, his Home Again registration, and all other documents to prove Kaji's mine. One more paper isn't going to prove anything. | Again I'm really sorry you misinterpreted what I said. Apparently my attempts to come up with an option to alleviate the new high cost wasn't taken well. When and where did I say you couldn't afford it? I was never implying that if that's where confusion comes from for you-you noted the high costs, which I believe do detour a lot of people looking at a larger one time expense more than they anticipated initially. Also,commenting that after reading my posts it made you not want to do it was rude but whatever to each their own. I do think the penalty is rather extreme as well. I didn't register Princess right away, I forgot and then when I remembered and got the papers out it was about $65 more, so I spent another month putting money aside to cover the extra cost I hadn't anticipated. I'm definitely a budgeter here, if its an unanticipated cost, it has to be an emergency expense to not get save up for, but that's really a personal financial choice.
I hope some people will get what they need from all the constructive reasons on weather or not having registration papers is beneficial. I agree with the original post in this forum-Limited Registrations should be a minimum standard and supporting all the good work of the AKC is well worth the minor expenses they charge. Papers in conjunction with micro-chipping is a great way to ensure any animal custody issues. You can add a microchip number to your AKC registration-nice to see people notate you need both CKC and AKC registration for various things.
Not to mention if every breeder has to register their dogs (AKC CKC EKC,etc)responsible can be encouraged through record keeping and giving more authority to the AKC.
One of my dogs came without his papers, he later had health problems (which can happen to anyone, genetics are genetics, if anyone says they have never had a sick pup in their line-they're probably not being honest) anyways there was little to be done about proving he came from the breeder he did, and that she had continually bred dogs with genetic issues. The AKC can really do very little about this with out records and registrations proving linage, as well their current limitations-its a shame but requiring minimal registration could be a step in the right direction. Ye that and as a lot of people have noted it's just so cool to look and see your dog's pedigree, champions, names etc.
I really think (again) it would be nice that all kennels (breeders) practiced as some do pups come with either Limited Registration or Full Registration instead of with or without papers... |