Yeah, I know about the ILP. I can handle that; the dogs are not allowed entry to conformation events, but can do the fun AKC events. I’ve seen enough rescue Shorthairs that you know they’re Shorthairs, but don’t know where they came from, and the ILP can encourage new owners to be active with their dog in AKC events. But this article makes it sound like any ol’ dog from the pound can compete in the new agility event at Westminster. The club maybe is trying to compete with the Eukanuba Classic, though only the top 6 ranked agility dogs in each breed are invited to attend the Classic. Used to be that only top ranked dogs were invited to compete in conformation, but they’ve now opened it to any dog that sends in an entry. That torques me off a bit. Especially after seeing the Shorthairs that were entered this past show. I guess this can be said for most breeds, but there is no worry that Shorthairs will have overangled front assemblies any time soon. Most that I saw don’t even have correctly angled fronts.
ILPs dead-end, thankfully.
However, the problem with the yellow papers [and I speak from personal experience in an AKC litter investigation] is that, a fraudulently registered litter must produce just 3 generations of pups and the third generation is allowed full AKC privileges again.
In 2002, a litter was born that not only was the sire *not* the real sire, the pups had several different sires.
The submitted sire was chosen because the owner of all the other males refused to commit fraud but the owner of the bitch had no such reservations so she typed in the name of the *only* male of which she had full ownership.
I had to submit DNA for the investigation and two of my girls had different daddies.
The owner of some of the “Who’s yer daddy?” pups had titled all her dogs and was about to breed them when the yellow paper designation was issued.
ALL their titles were stripped away, even though she refuses to admit that, to this day.
Her entire “foundation stock” were “worthless” and she had spent a fortune on campaigning those dogs only to be cut off at the knees because of one women’s greed and treachery.
[she has new dogs and is quite successful now but she *should* have already “gotten there” 12 years and a *lot* of money ago]
Every dog they showed against, and every dog *those* dogs showed against should have had their points recalculated to reflect the WYD litter’s new ineligibility but never were.
Legitimately registered dogs either never received the points/titles they were due *or* had to be campaigned much longer than they should have.
In addition to yellow papered dogs being placed back into the gene pool, puppy millers are using yellow papers to register dogs of iffy origin, knowing full well that only a short 18 months of back-to-back breeding need pass before they can then sell “AKC pups”.
The AKC is rotting from within and no longer represents the pure ideals that created it.
Having owned a GSP in the past, I’m sorry to hear that their conformation is being compromised.
I truly do feel your pain.
What Dobes are now and what they are *supposed* to be isn’t even in the same realm of reality, anymore.
That is probably 80% of why I went with Euros this time around.