"Each person who breeds, keeps, transfers ownership or possession of, or deals in dogs that are registered or to be registered with The American Kennel Club, whether he acts as principal or agent or sells on consignment, must follow such practices as, consistent with the number of dogs involved, will preclude any possibility of error in identification of any individual dog or doubt as to the parentage of any particular dog or litter."
This means permanent identification. Although it doesn't specifically say tattoo or microchip, that is the way the AKC reps interpret this section. If you are a breeder you will get a warning from AKC if they do an inspection and find that you haven't either tattooed or microchipped all your dogs. With the microchip, you have to have a scanner on the premises. I checked at the AKC website and it does say that it "recommends" tattoo or microchip. However, that "recommends" actually doesn't leave the breeder a choice of not permanently identifying all their dogs. They can only choose the method. All the best, Susan Cochran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudia Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] Mandatory Health Testing and the AKC Vote > In a message dated 8/20/2002 8:42:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > The AKC requires all dogs to be chipped or tattooed > > hi susan, > the akc does not "require" any dog to be chipped or tattooed, they just > recommend it. > claudia > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
