In many cases being a member of the National Breed Organization is more important than being a member of the AKC (although the two usually go hand in hand) The AKC is a clearing house for information and the competitive body. The national breed orgs, deal with breeding and breed specific issues.
Case in point: Great Pyrenees (Pyrenean Mountain Dog [UKC]) have the NGPCA. NGPCA breeders have to have their breeding pairs inspected for hip and knee issues. Many of these are genetic, if the dogs display the genetic markers for hip dysplaysia they are not allowed to breed under the NGPCA banner. Scott A. Stewart REAC/PASS-IT (202)-475-8875 Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/10/2006 02:25 PM Please respond to cf-community To: CF-Community <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD) Subject: Re: puppy food.... >My mistake, the puppy was born on Sept 16th and it'll be Nov 4th >before we can pick it up. So the puppy will be 7 weeks. She has other >puppies that she's keeping until 8 weeks, I'm not sure why some go at >6 weeks and some at 8. I just know her personally and she's been >breeding puppies for years so I know it's not just "they're too much >trouble". You might want to ask if she's a member of the JRTCA...most good JRT breeders would be. The club is pretty strict about that code of ethics being followed by its breeders (they care a lot more about maintaining good standards in the breed than AKC does!) If there are other puppies from the same litter that will be there until 8 weeks, you might want to consider waiting a week to pick up yours as well. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:217256 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5