akc and mixed breeds,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, - Page 2

Some people  run the  marathon to win, some to participate ............

Shepadoodles, goldendoodles, puggles and the like are very good practice for developing a poker face. Or for keeping a smile plastered on your face when some innocent owner tells you they are very special breeds and the animal in question looks like the result of randomly matched parts. Keep smiling, KC!

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"The AKC Archives supports the mission statement by:

• Soliciting AKC Member Club and Parent Club records
• Accessing and preserving appropriate materials and historically significant documents that support the AKC's dedication to its own heritage and to the sport of purebred dogs
• Retaining select AKC departmental records
• Providing public services archives to researchers and the general public"

Whether it's good or bad to have mixed breed dogs competeing in various trials... something about it goes against the Mission Statement of the AKC.  No where in their long history have they stated that their purpose is for anything OTHER THAN the furtherment of purebred dogs.  I've loved my mutts as much as I have my purebreds over the years... but an AKC title has always been limited to purebred or at least apparent purebred dogs (ie the ILP).  There are other venues for crossbreeds or unregistered dogs, or these designer "breeds" to gather and trial... The AKC does itself no favor in dropping the requirement for dogs to be purebreds to compete for an AKC title.  

I think the AKC has matured and this is a good thing.  However, I doubt the AKC will allows cross-breeds to ever show up their precious purebloods.  And they will not allow competition titles to be a useful tool for promoting and breeding those cross-breeds.  So if you are worried that this move will somehow dilute the franchise of purebred dogs, I suspect you are safe.

 

 

In UK, crossbreeds and purebreeds from unregistered parents can be registered in the Activity Register (used to be called the Working Register) and compete in any KC dog training competitions alongside the ones with "proper" registrations.  Dogs on the Activity Register cannot be shown in conformation classes, their progeny have no right of registration (no compulsory neutering, but maybe that will come) and the registration does not list what mix they are, just "crossbreed".

I think it is a good thing personally, I first got interested in competitive dog training after joining a club with my crossbreed,  where I was actively encouraged to compete and got the bug.  This was before Collies had taken over Competition Obedience, I fell in love with the GSDs I saw working and as soon as I was able, I obtained a working bred (for the time, she was a Joll v Bemholt grandaughter) GSD and later bred her to a Working Trials Champion (Ilk Eschbacher Klippen son) to get my first competition puppy, Nyrvana Burn The Wind.

From tiny acorns.

Margaret N-J

The only KC licensed activities that x breeds/mongrels/mixed etc cannot participate in in the UK are gundog working tests and field trials (restricted to gundogs registered on the KC breed register) and of course breed shows.

All other activities (obedience, working trials, agility, HWTM, flyball etc) are open to any dog whatever its background which IMHO is a GOOD thing because EVERYONE has to start somewhere, not everyone buys a "tool for the job".

Some of our most famous Obedience/Agility/Working Trials have been X breeds and indeed some breeders have deliberately bred litters of x breeds to fulfil a purpose; notably the coltriever xs in Obedience and the Melnola (WSD x Golden Retriever) xs in Working Trials (4 of the same litter went on to achieve WT Ch status)