Registry Terms

The debate will never end as everybody feels they have the right answer.

Only you can decide which registry is the right one for you.  Your decision should be based on several factors,

the facts weighed carefully and be one that you feel comfortable with. 

 

Many registries, such as UKC, UKCI, CKC and now it seems even AKC allow hardship,
foundation or single registration

which may or may not be in the best interest of the breed depending on how you look at it.

 

Then you have registries that will
document a pedigree on a dog without any concrete proof that the pedigree

is the one that goes with the dog. 

Your hard-earned pedigrees can be put on dogs that have no relation

to yours at all.

 

The individual Registries Breed Standard for the breed you are involved in will also play a part

in which registry you choose.

 Many disallow certain colors, patterns and body styles that are

a part of the breed but have allowed themselves to be swayed into making faults and/or disqualifications

of these things in their breed standard.  

To support a registry that for all intense purposes has excluded

your dogs doesn't make a lot of sense - now does it?

 Registries that are known to change their breed

standards with the change of regiment in the
Breed Club is also one that should be carefully examined as

to whether or not it is the right Registry for you.

 Your dogs may be breed standard today and not tomorrow.

Breeders can be cruel and the worst of them, love nothing better than to critique your dogs based on what

they perceive to be the current breed standard especially when it suits their agenda.

Let's follow another situation whereas UKCI was registering
Merle Rat Terriers back in the 80's.

 These dogs

were registered, issued papers and the register's money taken to register
the dogs then poof overnight the breeder

is notified by UKCI that they have pulled the dogs papers as they will no longer be
registering Merle patterned Rat Terriers.

In actuality the registry was only trying to please the ones with the loudest objection to
the merle pattern as UKCI kept

registering the dogs but was telling everybody they were registering them as hybrids.

 Few were aware of what was going on.

UKCI still today registers Merles, though many claim they do not.

Then you have the registries that deemed it necessary to
disallow brindles unless the brindle was on the head only.

Somebody forgot to inform the brindle gene however that it was only allowed on the head!

 Apparently those making the rules are not knowledgeable in genetics as well so that is
another point that you should look in to when choosing a registry.

 

There are many good, friendly and legitimate registries
available to dog breeders and pet owners alike today.

You have many choices depending on what your looking for.

 

If your just looking to register a dog and have no interest in the political side,
their breed standards or how they conduct

• business then any registry will do for you. 
  
• Most registries operate on the basis of issuing papers based on the information submitted to them by the
• breeder or registrar and issue that paper based on a series of endless numbers  and letters. 
  
• 
  
• Don't limit yourself to what OTHERS think but find one that fits YOU.

Now keep in mind that registries issue papers.

 They don't, for the most part, take on the responsibility of getting you

the papers, if you fail to deal with a respectful breeder unless of course they are willing to issue
hardship papers, it is the breeders responsibility to get you your papers.

The politics of Brindle or Merle have affected the breed and many a

breeder in such a way as to make many registries rethink politics.

• There are some that I choose not to deal with but

   
• that is my personal choice based on the fact that their policies,
• breed standards or methods of registration are not ones that work for me. 
  
• They obviously work well for others
  

 

There are way too many registries for me to ever list but I'll list a few and I encourage you to look into

them and see if one would work better for you than your current registry.

Copyright 2010 and beyond

Hardship registration can occur in many ways

Let's follow a dog that was put up for sale on a national advertisement

website -

The owner had health issues and put the dog up for sale. 

She would sell it with papers or give it away

• without papers.
  
•  Another breeder saw the ad and wanted the dog and papers to go
• with it as well but didn't want to pay for the dog
• so they contacted the breeder and got the information on the dog such as Sire, Dam and so forth.

They then conspired with another person to go get the dog for free and turn it over to them whereas they, as it seems,

single registered it through UKC thus getting papers on a
dog through deceptive practices. 

The person has since

passed away leaving these breeders with the feeling they got off scott-free. 

 Nothing could be further from the truth as

this story continues to circulate within the Rat Terrier Community.

 

Then you have registries that will document a pedigree on a dog without any concrete proof that the pedigree

is the one that goes with the dog. 

Your hard-earned pedigrees can be put on dogs that have no relation

to yours at all.