TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
You must learn to speak the word "bitch" without hesitation and to hear it without flinching. there is no other correct word to take its place in the dog world. A Bitch is a female dog.
The correct term for all dogs who are exhibited at shows, it goes without saying, must be purebred.
An unregistered purebred dog can not be shown. All dogs shown at dog shows are registered purebreds. Not all purebred dogs pass the judge's standard. It may be excused from the ring. The judge has his reasons for doing so. When a dog is excused from the ring twice by two different judges, an appeal can be made. After being excused thrice disqualifies the dog from being shown which would automatically make the dog "Pet" quality. Show quality simply means the dog can be shown and guaranteed not to be disqualified. Basis are the major disqualifications or major faults as prescribed in the Breed Standards. Breeding quality are just as much misunderstood because too many a times, people construe the purpose of showing. When a dog is disqualified from the ring, it means that the dog possess an undesirable trait or possess a major fault as stated in the Breed Standard. This means that the dog should no longer be considered as a desirable contributor to the gene pool because it will most likely just pass on the same undesirable traits. A dog that has never been shown in effect is not certified as breeding quality more so, one that is obviously just for pet.
Pedigree is that paper usually given to the owner of a dog by the breeder together with a PCCI Registration Certificate. It gives the names of sire and dam, the grandparents, great-grandparents, and usually the great, great grandparents. Often you will see in advertisements: "Champion-sired" i.e. the father which is the sire is a Champion and the same goes for "Champion Dam" pertaining to the mother of the "Get" which is the litter, or the offspring, children or progeny. Littermate is therefore, the brothers or the sisters. The Registration Certificate or RC you have to surrender to PCCI for a Transfer of Ownership of the said dog. The "Owner" of a dog is the one whose name (or names) appears on the Registration certificate as owner, not necessarily the one in possession of a dog. It is possible to have more than one owner, but the names of all owners should appear on the Registration Certificate.
If you buy a puppy, some breeders just give out the Litter Tickets, blue if the puppy is male and pink if the puppy is female. Litter Tickets are applications for an official Registration Certificate and or a Pedigree Certificate.
Just for the record, many a times people would say that Cob has the most number of dogs ... say, 300 dogs. A lot of the dogs that we have parted with, the new owners have not bothered to transfer ownership since we give out Registration Certificates instead of Litter Tickets. Other, we intentionally withhold the Certificates when we see that the dog is of pet quality and is in our possession until the dogs are spayed or neutered. There are also co-ownership contracts that we retain ownership for control over breeding programs.
Now, a breeder of a dog is the owner or lessee of the dam at the time when the dam is bred. Bear in mind that the person who owns the dam when she whelps is not necessarily the breeder and will only be the breeder if he also owned her when she was mated.
You might hear the word breeder used in another way:
WHEN PURCHASING A SHOW DOG, IT IS ADVISABLE TO GO TO A GOOD BREEDER.
OR A REPUTABLE BREEDER... OR A RELIABLE BREEDER... OR A RESPONSIBLE BREEDER... OR A SERIOUS BREEDER... OR A RESPONSIBLE ETHICAL BREEDER
What this really means is to go to someone who raises dogs as compared with a pet shop or a puppy-selling establishment. And here we see another way that the word breeder is used:
BACKYARD BREEDER OR PUPPY-MILLER
I am not really sure about hobby-breeders as they can actually be from either group.
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