Is a pedigree certificate really just a piece of paper?

Question: "My puppy costs more than 1,000 yuan. The seller said that if I add 1,000 yuan, I can get a certificate. Do I want to apply for it?"

Answer: "The pedigree certificate is just a piece of paper, there is no need to apply for one."

Question: "The seller told me that pedigree certificates are all lies. You can get as many as you want. My dog ​​wants a certificate, and he can help me get it. Do you think I should pay for it?" ”

Answer: "The pedigree certificate is just a piece of paper, there is no need to apply for one."

Question: "I have a single-blood puppy. The seller said that for extra money, I can get a pedigree certificate for me. Should I apply for it?"

Answer: "The pedigree certificate is just a piece of paper, there is no need to apply for one."

Question: "My puppy is four or five months old. When I bought it, the seller didn't say whether it was a pedigree or not. But I just chatted with the seller. If you want a pedigree certificate, you can get one for me with extra money. What do you mean? Should I do it?"

Answer: "The pedigree certificate is just a piece of paper, there is no need to apply for one."

Question: "I want to buy someone's puppy. The seller said it is a double bloodline, but he can't tell me what bloodline and champion it is. People who raise it at home don't understand these things. They said that if I add a few hundred dollars, I can get a pedigree certificate for the puppy. , should I get one?"

Answer: "The pedigree certificate is just a piece of paper, there is no need to apply for one."

...I have encountered similar problems countless times. I can clearly answer here whether I recommend or not to apply for a birth certificate/pedigree certificate. I choose the answer based on the actual situation of the other person. It is normal for different people to give me different answers.

Why is it not recommended to apply for a certificate in the above example?

Example 1: The puppy costs more than 1,000 yuan, so you need to pay more to get a birth certificate?

Unfortunately, this is an obvious set of certificates. Taking an ordinary puppy and paying more to get a certificate is just to deceive yourself and make yourself happy, and has no practical use. Moreover, if the dog becomes a parent in the future, the puppies born after him will also be "contracted", just deceiving the new owners from generation to generation.

If you apply for a certificate in this situation, it will add a new ink to the lineage circle that cannot be washed away (although it is already common in China).

I hope that the purebred dog breeding circle can be purer, even if it is just a little bit purer.

So when I hear that the seller is "registering the certificate", I will advise parents not to do it. It is a waste of money and there is no way to get it right.

Example2: The seller tells you that "pedigree certificates are all lies". How many do you want?

Obviously, if the seller is under this concept and does not have a basic sense of "reverence" and "sense of responsibility" for purebred dog breeding, you still expect his puppies to be able to match the certificate given to you. The corresponding dog?

Both ordinary Golden Retrievers and single-blood Golden Retrievers will pay you to get a certificate; or even if it is a double-blood puppy, the parents are also certified, or if the puppy certificate does not correspond to the actual parents, you will be paid to get it. Get a certificate.

This type of certificate requires you to spend extra money. Do you think it is necessary?

Example 3: For a single-blood puppy, do you need to pay more to get a certificate?

What is a single-blood puppy? That is, between the dog's parents, only one is a certified pedigree dog, and the other is an ordinary dog.

In terms of dog breed regulations, it is impossible to obtain a certificate for this type of dog.

Obviously, it’s another “certificate cheating” and there’s really no point in spending money to deceive yourself. It would be better to save the money to buy toys and snacks for the children.

Example 4: The puppy is so big, and the seller asks if he needs to pay more to get a certificate?

Maybe you don’t know the details about the process of “applying a certificate”, so here is a brief explanation.

The process for obtaining a certificate for a litter of puppies:

Step one: Submit the "breeding certificate" immediately during pregnancy or just after giving birth, and the dog mother is required to be under the name of "CKU Professional Member + Kennel" and the dog father is under the name of "Professional Member" before the application can be processed. .

The annual fee for "Professional Membership + Kennel" is more than a thousand. It is an annual fee and must be paid every year. If not taught, it will become invalid.

The breeding certificate must be submitted within two months of breeding. The Dog Breed Association charges a review fee of 120 yuan; if it exceeds 2 months, the handling fee doubles to 240 yuan.

Step 2: Within two months after the puppy is born, submit a birth certificate application with the breeding certificate; if it is submitted after more than two months, it will also cost more, and each puppy in the litter will cost more. money.

Step 3: After getting the birth certificate, take the puppy to the Dog Breed Association to keep a blood sample, inject a chip, and use the birth certificate to submit an application for a pedigree certificate.

For pedigree certificates, it is mandatory to complete DNA gene site identification after one is over one year old; if one is over two years old, it cannot be applied for, and the birth certificate will be discarded.

It can be seen that every step in applying for a pedigree certificate will result in a high fine if the time limit is exceeded. So as a seller, why not get the birth certificate when the puppy is young? In this way, the value of the puppy can be increased a lot, and you can make more money~ Why?Do you have to risk all kinds of fines and wait until the puppy is old to get a birth certificate? Isn’t it a thankless task? Think about the reason yourself.

Example 5: The seller only knows that his puppy’s parents are of double bloodline, but he can’t figure out which bloodline and which offspring?

Usually this kind of seller is a domestic seller. Because he has limited knowledge of the industry, there is no guarantee that he will not be deceived when buying a dog parent. And if the dog's parents are both certified, the puppy will still be certified if the DNA of the parents is tested correctly in time.

The rigor of bloodline breeding lies in the fact that if you make one mistake, you will make mistakes every step of the way.

So even the seller can’t tell the puppy’s parents’ pedigree information clearly. There is really no need to apply for a certificate for this kind of “double-pedigree” puppy.

Similarly, if the seller only says that the puppy is "double-blooded" and "certificated", but cannot tell which bloodline is the offspring of whom, or what the qualifications of the parents and grandparents are, don't hold out much hope. If this type of seller is domesticated, there is a high probability that he has been deceived by dog ​​dealers before; if it is a dog dealer, the breed will never be a strict "double bloodline". He will just follow the market and see what type is valuable, and then he will be deceived. It just depends on what type of dog you have. In this kind of breeding, the possibility of breeding from the breeding male to the female to the puppies is very high.

What is the real meaning of a pedigree certificate?

So, has the pedigree certificate really become a piece of waste paper and a gimmick?

No, as a purebred dog breeding area in the professional field, the significance of the pedigree certificate is related to the characteristics of each subsequent generation of puppies, which is extremely important!

Tell you the "past and present" of this puppy:

In the field of professional purebred dogs, through the pedigree certificate, we can check the parents and ancestors of this puppy. The ancestors here are not only grandparents and great-grandfathers, but can even be traced back to tens or even hundreds of years. Usually, genetic influences are concentrated among the ancestors within a few decades.

By querying the ancestors of each generation, we can learn about the puppy’s parents,which bloodlines they come from, which bloodlines are the main ones, what bloodlines they have joined, and what aspects of heredity these bloodlines have. Characteristics, and to what extent the genetic intensity of these genetic characteristics can reach, and how likely they can be manifested in future generations, etc.

In other words, in professional purebred dog breeding, the real meaning of a pedigree certificate is "guidance", which helps breeders learn about the dog's past and present evolution, and understand the genetic characteristics of its bloodline. Guide the breeders and help the breeders to guess what the probability of the dog babies coming out of this dog father and this dog mother will be like.

Professional breeder, before the puppy is born, you can basically predict the appearance and characteristics of the puppy when it grows up (speaking of foreign ones, domestic ones are not considered).

Help make up for the shortcomings of the bloodline:

There is no perfect dog in the world. In the real pedigree dog genetic bloodline, each bloodline has its outstanding advantages, but there are also Inevitably there are shortcomings.

The ancestral information in the pedigree certificate can allow breeders to have an overall understanding of the "deficiencies". When matching or introducing foreign blood lines in the later stage, they should strive to "complement" this deficiency so that the blood lines can be used in the future. After complementary adjustments, it is closer to "perfect".

Speculated genetic disease genes:

There is no genetic disease test in China, so we will not consider it. We only talk about purebred dog breeding in the United States.

In the United States, the development of purebred dogs has been extremely complete. Pedigree dogs can only become parents after completing a physical examination for genetic diseases after they are two years old. This genetic record archive has lasted for nearly fifty years.

The files of genetic disease physical examinations are associated with the ancestry information of each ancestor. Knowing the dog's ancestors, we can incidentally find out the dog's genetic disease physical examination, and even the genetic physical examination records of the ancestors for nearly fifty years, including the genetic disease physical examination records of the offspring of this breeding dog.

Through these records, we can know the approximate range of the hip joint grades of this puppy's ancestors, and even the range of health inherited from its brothers and sisters.

Such genetic disease files can help breeders avoid the risk of genetic diseases. For example, breeders who pay attention to hip joint development can choose breeding dogs with a very high overall level of genetic excellence from generation to generation to become the parents of puppies.

In this way, after each generation focuses on this aspect, and strengthens its excellent hip joint genes from generation to generation, it will be able to obtain the excellent genes it ultimately wants, and it will become one of the characteristics of its bloodline reproduction.

This is the meaning of the true pedigree certificate and the true meaning of purebred dog breeding.