Co-ownership

[yukidomari]

Just from reading some posts here I understand that some people aren't very happy about some of the breeding choices made with dogs they have produced. So say for example kennel A sells a dog to person B, who proceeds to breed this dog in a way that upsets Kennel A.

As far as I understand, for this reason many breeding-potential dogs are sold on co-ownership contracts here in the USA, so that Kennel A and person B must jointly decide on breeding matters. Puppies sold not to be bred are often sold on a castration contract with only limited registration.

Sometimes Kennel A will withhold full registration papers until some benchmark has been reached, sometimes that is to have titles, hip score, etc. So if Person B doesn't do this, he will not have registration papers and any 'illegal' litters born will never be able to be registered.

I have not heard of this on the boards and I was wondering if this was not commonly practiced in some parts of Europe?