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Originally Posted by Hanka
I hope YOU will be leader of US breeding! Or not?
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That's a different topic.
But...for my lifetime I hope to influence breeding in the US in every positive way I can. Truth is though...it is the "land of the free". I have no authority to say what dog can breed to what dog, as long as they both have registrations saying they are CSVs from any FCI country (or American born litter). Untypical dogs, mixed dogs with FCI registration, violently aggressive dogs, shy dogs, unhealthy dogs - any with a registration. No questions asked. No parent breed club has been able to change this national rule...AKC wants to make money from every registration it can. AKC even has a rule saying you don't even need the pedigree - only the spoken names of the two parents for an imported dog (to account for native dogs, of say, places like Africa where breed may only be defined by "type" rather than pedigree). After 3 generations, puppies from these breedings receive full registration. Can you imagine how angry you would be if in the future, some AWD breeder in the US, despite our protest, managed to lie and say "Oh, here is a puppy from Ali Reolup and...". And this dog went on to have puppies all bearing precious Ali's name? Maybe even sending puppies back to Europe in the future? It's a dangerous, yet preventable, problem.
Breed clubs do have some influence to ask AKC to close the stud book, hopefully ending this practice, which we will do for sure. But to have DNA to fall back on if a problem did arise would be...priceless.