[Varda]

The AKC is a registering body (it keeps stud books) and it runs various competitions for its' registered dogs. It's not the American dog commissar that keeps idiot dog buyers from the consequences of their poor choices.

If you really are in need of finding advice for "health and well-being" why would you go to a stud book keeper instead of a vet?

Your post suggests that you did your research into dogs in the pages of some PETA newsletter. If you'd actually done research you'd know that the AKC can't determine what kind of or how many dogs anyone can own, only that those people obey the rules (and that's what they're inspectors determine). Commercial dog kennels are registered with various state agencies and in my state a yearly inspection is required to keep a kennel license. Even with this requierment the state rarely shuts puppy mills down.

Since the AKC doesn't give "seals of approval" there is no responsiblity to prevent people from buying what doesn't exist.

[SCalGal]

Your post suggests that you did your research into dogs in the pages of some PETA newsletter.

Thank you for saying what I was thinking.

Since the AKC doesn't give "seals of approval" there is no responsiblity to prevent people from buying what doesn't exist.

Worth repeating.

[SengirV]

Yes Vards, the AKC keeps stud books. They take money for giving out slips of papers. These slips of papers are worth actual money for the slum lord puppy mill owners. If you think that the AKC should take no responsability for being the sole reason for the creation of puppy mills, then I have a little group you might be interested in - Democrats.