Is there any benefit to registering a pet dog with AKC?
He can't ever be shown or bred. I was hoping that by registering him, I could find any other dogs related to him, but apparently the AKC doesn't make that info available. The other thing is it will cost $102.  So is it worth it? What are the reasons I should do it? |
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| Why will it cost $201 to register him with AKC? |
ChSheepdogs wrote: Why will it cost $201 to register him with AKC? $102 $20 registration fee $17 Silver package (3 generation pedigree) $65 late fee $102 total. |
ChSheepdogs wrote: Why will it cost $201 to register him with AKC? God, I hope that is $102   Late fees. I know the pet people who got Che never bothered to register him, so it cost me a small fortune to do so when I got him & his papers back. I registered him because he'll be doing performance stuff. Well, that and because I bred him and I want my dogs registered. He's neutered, so it's not that. God forbid (if you ever saw him ) Anyway, if you have Brick's registration application and all you want is his pedigree you can go to the AKC store and look up his parents by registered name or their registration number and for probably a total of $25-30, haven't done it in a while, purchase a 4 or 5 generation online/working (not pretty certified, but have all the correct info) pedigree for each of them from the AKC which you will have available to you in minutes without spending $102 to do so, The only reason for you to register him, really, at this point, is if you think you'd like to compete in AKC obedience or rally or agility or something like that. Kristine |
| Kristine, Thank you. That's what I was thinking. I'll go to AKC's website and see if I can find where you can find the pedigree search section you talk about. |
| Just came back from the AKC site. I got a 5 generation pedigree report for Brick's mother & father. Cost $24.00 It goes back to his great, great, great, great grandparents as far back as 1967 (can that be possible?) I noticed that: on his mother's side; her father's father is the same dog as her mother's father. Has anyone seen the movie "Deliverance"? I can hear the banjos now. He has champion blood in him, though, from his 5th & 6th generation. Pretty cool. I wish they would give more info, however. Like owners, locations, phone numbers, death dates, siblings, etc. |
| I know Che is not pretty...but he is sooo sweet Kristine. I would take him in a heart beat if it wasn't already full at the inn. |
CamVal1 wrote: Just came back from the AKC site. I got a 5 generation pedigree report for Brick's mother & father. Cost $24.00 Very cool! It goes back to his great, great, great, great grandparents as far back as 1967 (can that be possible?) Yes. If Brick is more mature and his predessors were habitually bred late in life. But it's pushing it given that this was pre-frozen semen days. Still I did a test run on my 8 year old and if I run a five gen on her dam I can get back to 1973, so.... I noticed that: on his mother's side; her father's father is the same dog as her mother's father. Has anyone seen the movie "Deliverance"? I can hear the banjos now. Well, it's been known to happen in the best of families.  Breeding half siblings together is not commonly done today, but...He has champion blood in him in from his 5th & 6th generation. I see this commonly in OES pedigrees from casual breeders. Go far enough back and you will run into CH bloodlines. Pretty cool. Yeah, isn't it? I love pedigrees! The further back you can go, the more interesting it tends to get. I wish they would give more info, however. Like owners, locations, phone numbers, death dates, siblings, etc. Yeah, you get the owner(s) of record of the dog you purchased pedigree info on, but nothing further back, and no contact info. The AKC also has no way to record date of death. They do know who the registered siblings are (many tend not to be registered though). However, there's no easy report I know of that will give you that. HOWEVER, you can go to http://www.offa.org and start doing a search on the various registration numbers in the pedigrees you have and sometimes glean some additional information there. Your best bet are the CH dogs in the pedigree (if a dog was OFA'd the pedigree MAY state something like OFA24G - as I recall that means the dog was OFA'd at 24 mos old and given the rating Good), but some times other dogs will be OFA'd as well even if there's no notation in the pedigree. If a dog was OFA'd it will show his DOB and reg name and number (and results), as well, if OFA'd, that of his sire & dam and any siblings that were OFA'd, as well as any offspring, siblings and half siblings who were OFA'd. Even if the dog's parents' were not OFA'd, their registration numbers are typically given. Still no owner information or things like that, though. Kristine |
wendy58 wrote: I know Che is not pretty...but he is sooo sweet Kristine. I would take him in a heart beat if it wasn't already full at the inn.  He is a sweet dude. Lucky for him!  He's just "interesting" looking. From the minute he was born you just looked at him and wondered "OK, so what part of the gene pool did YOU emerge from...? " Ah, well, you outcross, you take your chances. His ear set is...interesting. Totally incorrect for the breed and makes him look like a dork. Then, too, he has interesting markings, with a huge dark section in what would typically be a white shawl. That's trivial, but doesn't help. Still, his most objectionable trait from a functional point of view is that he's not balanced and he's front loaded. The very antithesis of his dam and HER sire and dam and.... And that's all I have to say about THAT! I think the ears were lurking on mom's side though.  Disgustingly, he's fabulously athletic for all his structural oddities? Taken all together he looks sort of like the Disney character "Goofy" and since he behaves like that too...it works for him And he thanks you for your kind words.Kristine |
| I found a sister of Brick's on the OFA website. It's not one of his littermates, but a sister born to his parents in an earlier litter on 1/14/03. |
CamVal1 wrote: I found a sister of Brick's on the OFA website. It's not one of his littermates, but a sister born to his parents in an earlier litter on 1/14/03. COOL! Kristine |
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