The American Kennel Club will not accept
the registration of a litter of puppies if a dam was less than eight months old or the sire less than seven months old at the time of mating.
Not exact matches
Litter registration applications must be received by the AKC within six months
of date
of whelping in order to register
puppies with the AKC.
Until recently it was a requirement that
litters of Bedlington
puppies could only be registered under the KC Assured Breeders Scheme if both parents had tested «clear»
of TRD within the 2 years prior to the application for
registration.
OFA, GDC, and PennHIP are excellent diagnostic and control «helps», and AKC's slowly - awakening sense
of responsibility to animal soundness and owner is commendable, partially making up for a history
of neglect and greed in letting
puppy mills flourish for the sake
of litter registration dollars.
If only the KC with its well - stocked bank account — all those
litter registrations from breeders, large and small scale certainly amount to a hefty sum — were as efficient as a tiny, voluntary group
of investigators who know exactly what the conditions some
of the breeding dogs supplying Pixieland
puppies are forced to live in, while the KC ponderously investigates.
At $ 20 per dog and $ 25 per
litter (plus $ 2 per
puppy), AKC brought in well over $ 30 million in revenues from
registration of dogs.
Provides
puppy or kitten buyers with proper paperwork, including Canadian Kennel Club
registration papers (for dogs), pedigree information, vaccination certificates and copies
of health clearances for the sire and dam
of the
litter
Have copies
of your
puppies litter registration number, date
of birth, name and
registration number
of the sire and dam (if provided), name and address
of the breeder from whom you purchased the pup and the sales contract.
for registering the
litter and full
registration of all the
puppies.
The breeder should provide you with this information as well as the registered names and individual
registration numbers
of the sire (father) and the dam (mother), the date
of the
puppy's birth, the name
of the breeder, and the
litter registration number.
The
litter of puppies are sold to happy homes and they come with DNA, microchip, full
registration, health certificate, current vaccinations, declawed and docked tail.
And AKC's slowly - awakening sense
of responsibility to animal soundness and owner was commendable for a while, when they partially made up for a history
of neglect and greed in letting
puppy mills flourish for the sake
of litter registration dollars.
Dogs with blue slips — the forms that allow individual
registration of a
puppy from a registered
litter — received from the breeder do not need an ILP number, but owners will have to pay a late fee if more than a year has elapsed between issuance
of the blue slip and application for
registration.
Don't be afraid to ask questions regarding how and where the
puppies are raised and socialized, the number
of litters the breeder has each year, the number
of years the breeder has been involved with the breed, the breeder's practices regarding waiting lists and deposits, and the breeder's health guarantees, return policies, policies on spaying / neutering, policies on withholding AKC
registration paperwork, and prices.
Simply bring your automobile
registration and driver's license to any license tag office and you can walk away with your new SPAY / NEUTER LICENSE PLATE and the knowledge that you will have prevented the birth
of an unwanted
litter of puppies and kittens.
AKC will investigate and may revoke the
litter registration if the
puppies or adult dogs do not have the appearance
of the breed they are registered as.
Click here to go to the Breeder E-Z Reg Payment Page to prepay for all
of the
puppy registrations in your
litter.
For most
of its long history, AKC could only depend on the integrity
of the breeder when it accepted
registration applications, and, although a vast majority
of breeders were honest, stories abounded
of unscrupulous
puppy producers who obtained extra
registration forms by falsely reporting the number
of puppies in a
litter, used forms received for one
litter for
puppies in other
litters, and otherwise circumvented the system.
«It is estimated that without reinstatement
of language which requires «
puppy mill» breeders to pay license and
litter registration fees, SB 130 (as passed by the Senate) could cost Ohio taxpayers up to $ 3 million a year!»