| Limited Registration means that the dog is registered but no litters
produced by that dog are eligible for registration. The dog can compete in every AKC event, including obedience, tracking,
field trials, hunt tests, and agility, except for breed competition, at a licensed or member event.
Why would a breeder specify limited registration for a puppy?
In our case it is to protect the puppy and to try to prevent genetic problems
in our breed.
Puppy mills will often buy puppies with the intent of breeding them as soon
as possible. Some owners of puppy mills will even hire young couples to pose as puppy buyers in order to get past screening
by breeders, then the puppy is transferred to the puppy mill. In order to keep their costs down, a puppy mill will breed a
dog early and often. They won’t test for genetic problems. They don’t screen their buyers (except to make sure
the buyer has sufficient cash available). They take few (if any) precautions to prevent disease in their dogs.
We sell our puppies on a limited registration to make them less appealing to
puppy mills – a puppy whose offspring can’t be registered isn’t as valuable to them.
Limited registration also helps to prevent genetic problems by preventing the
breeding of dogs who haven’t been checked for these problems. Well, it doesn’t actually prevent the breeding,
just the registration of any offspring. Few owners will go to the expense of breeding their registered dog, if the offspring
can’t be registered. |
