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If you have the stomach for it, there are four pages of dogs for sale on Kijiji that have been listed during the last 23 hours .... four pages! A few of them are genuine purebreds ... but all too often the word purebred is very misused. Not to be mean, but the pups are not purebred if the parents are two separate breeds. Nor does the CKC registry list Snorkies and Snoodles and Chiweenies.
Honestly .... Miss Ruby is a hound/ shepherd mix ... not a shound. Henry was listed by CAPS as a Valley Bull/Great Dane mix ... not a Valley Dane or a Great Bull( although imho he looks like every other sweet amstaf i have ever met)
Now McG was a purebred Scottish Terrier.... he came from Guesthouse Kennels over on the South shore and while she also breeds Mini Schnauzers, to the best of my knowledge, she has never mixed the two up in any litter.
But I'm wandering afield here. When I bought the little man, the breeder took my particulars and SHE sent in McGuinness' CKC registration. As part of the process, I also signed a non breeding agreement that included the promise to have him neutered. If I was an unethical sort and if he had not been neutered, any puppies he produced would NOT have been eligible for CKC registration.
So when you read the ads that state that one or both parents are not CKC registered, odds are to even that somebody has been breeding a dog that an ethical breeder originally felt did not meet the breed standard.
There is the occcasional breeder who overestimates the market and lists a litter on Kijiji ( the subject of where the line lies between reputable breeder and commercial breeder is a separate subject for another day) But .... if anyone is advertising purebred puppies or dogs, both parents must have CKC registration. And ... the seller is responsible for submitting the paperwork for the dog's CKC registration. That is considered to be part of the fee and not something that there should be any extra charge for. Why? Because they are obligated, under CKC rules ( http://www.ckc.ca/en/Default.aspx?tabid=81 ).
More importantly, anyone advertising the word purebred for an animal falls under the authority of the Animal Pedigree Act and can be liable to prosecution and a hefty fine. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showtdm/cs/A-11.2 Our government considers this issue to be so important that unlike most other legislation under the Criminal Code, according to Article 67 of the Act there is no time limit for making complaints under the Act. In other words, if the purebred puppy doesn't grow up to meet Breed Standards ......
So if you .... like many interested folks in the animal loving community who keep their finger on this particular online pulse .... see ads for 'unregistered purebreds' or any other malarky involving the use of the word purebred ..... report it.
If nobody had been concerned about drinking and driving, the good old boys would still have a two four for an armrest in the front seat.
After all, if politicians can use the power of the law to protect a murderer, shouldn't the animal loving community take a proactive approach and use it for the animals?