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I was just wondering if anyone was paying attention to the requirements now being posted on the WDA website? They are requiring a four generation AKC Pedigree in order to show your AKC registered dog. Are people with 3 generation pedigrees (the only one offered in the past by AKC when registering a pup) grandfathered and accepted or is the WDA trying to "drive an additional buck" and force people to get the 4 generation in addition to the already obtained 3 generation? If I am not mistaken, isn't the WDA a club under the AKC/ GSDCA ? Can this WDA organization ask for more than the mother club requires in order to qualify to compete in their forum? Somebody needs to get a handle on this rogue organization that appears to be trying to force owners of AKC registered dogs to comply with unfair terms in order to compete within the sub organization that sanctions our breed in the USA. Has anyone else any thoughts?

If you had bothered to read the Hundegram on their website, you would see that 3 generation pedigrees would be accepted until Jan. 1, 2005. After that, only the 4 generations are accepted. I don't see how this requirement (costing only $15.00 for verification on paper) is any different than the $60 you have to pay to United Schutzhund. You can always join their club and pay them the additional money to sign up your dog to compete.

You can request a 4 generation pedigree in lieu of the 3 they offer by getting and filling out a request. There is a form, I have seen it, not sure where to get it. Marty Lou had some. Cost is 32.00. I tried to write in "4 generation pedigree" and send 32.00 with my application. Didn't work. If I'm not mistaken, there has always been a 4 generation requirement. Even though three generations were usually accepted. The difference in cost of a pedigree, three or four, is peanuts in the overall program.

I did and found it unacceptable. The dog is AKC registered and by the "mother" club that "rules" in the USA this should be enough. The dog should be eligible to compete in any competition sanctioned by the AKC/GSDCA as the papers required by such organization certify. The WDA is just another "club" finding more ways to continue to bilk GSD owners. And a four generation pedigree is $32 the last I checked. That added onto the already paid for 3 generation (that is by now stamped with DNA (another seperate fee paid) and "a" stamp (yet another fee paid seperately)and now maybe charge an additional fee to "certify" a tatoo). Where does it end. The WDA is forcing the average GSD owner out of the ring simply by economics. This is getting ridiculous. It is extortion. If you want to "show" your AKC registered dog (already with a "certified" pedigree, you must pay, and Pay for yet another more certified pedigree and now we found yet another way to make you pay). If the AKC issues a "Certified" pedigree, that should be enough!!! The AKC and GSDCA need to check up on JR and stop this nonsense. Many GSD owners in the US stopped competing in the USCA shows because of this sort of BS. WDA (full of former USCA officers) is now using the same tactics to "blackmail" AKC registered dog owners into paying unfair fees to be able to compete with their dogs. It is simply EXTORTION.

I obtain the four generation pedigree at the time of registration by submiting a letter with Credit card info requesting the 4 gen rather than the 3 gen. I had it back two weeks after the registration certificate on a foreign bitch. The tatoo information on the 4 gen is bizarre. I would think that any official document (the Pedigree), once altered by anyone other than the issuing orgnization, would be rendered invalid. If the GSDCA-WDA is a sub-group of the AKC (an FCI recognized organization) why is it necessary to have the tatoo on the pedigree, or even to have a tatoo on the dog? Any thoughts on these?

The American Kennel Club does not include tattoo numbers on their certified pedigrees. Therefore, WDA and USCA offer alternative means of tattoo certification. WDA charges $10 per dog for members and $15 per dog for non-members. Or $8 per dog for three or more dogs for members and $13 per dog for three or more dogs for non-members. Who are the "former USCA officers" that are now on the WDA board? Just curious.