My pups ar 4 weeks old to-day.
Last night I registered them online. I've just had an email saying the pups registrations are complete and the certificates dispatched! Not sure why you have to allow up to 10 days for delivery.
If this is true then that is amazing and well done to the KC.

I have had the same registered within a day, but the documents did take over a week to arrive, mind you this was in January.

Yes for some reason it does take about a week for the certs to arrive, but still very good I think.

I think the KC send everything second class post - hence how long the documents take to arrive.

> Not sure why you have to allow up to 10 days for delivery

I suspect their confirmation of despatch is system based and simply acknowledges the process has started...  Presumably they do overnight print runs which, with staff handling (and possibly weekends and Bank Holidays), may delay actual postal despatch.  

Also there will be a delay between the registrations being done and them actually being printed and posted.

I am sure you are right as something causes the delay but they do use the words "and have been dispatched"

ive just had a litter this is the 3rd time i have used the online service first 2 times no problems and all paperwork arrived within a week, this time it took 14 days no idea why, had the e-mail to say everything had gone through, the pups names even appeared on my list of dogs owned

I changed a puppy into my name on the 14th March - informed despatched a couple hours later. Paperwork arrived yesterday 20th April................?

Well done the Kennel Club - the certificates and booklets arrived yesterday the 20th April so not bad. I see at the moment if the buyer transfers the pup into their name ( which of course not everyone does ) - they get free the KC's puppy booklet, normally I think £4.

The reason there is a delay with litter registrations is that a letter is automatically generated for the stud owner who has the opportunity to contest the information - this of course you don't have with paper based registrations (AI etc)

Their standard line is 10 days for all paperwork (transfers, adding kennel names, copies etc) although other paperwork has arrived much quicker than that

With my recent litter I found that the Pedigrees came from the KC almost immediately but my Assured Breeder folders took a week longer to arrive. I think these are sent from a 3rd party?

> I see at the moment if the buyer transfers the pup into their name ( which of course not everyone does ) - they get free the KC's puppy booklet, normally I think £4.

Its been that way for a while...back about 4 years ago I transferreed a bitch into my name, she was 4 years old at the time & I had a puppy booklet sent to me!!!

With my recent litter I found that the Pedigrees came from the KC almost immediately but my Assured Breeder folders took a week longer to arrive. I think these are sent from a 3rd party?

I never order pedigrees as it it bumps up the cost too much, prefer to print my own, but I have just (last week) registered a litter online and the registration certificates with the AB folders arrived within a week.

My girl is seven and we've transferred her ownership several times. From breeder to breeder and myself, then to myself and OH and then to myself, each time I've had the welcome to your new puppy letter and puppy booklet, one day I might read it! :)

> I never order pedigrees as it it bumps up the cost too much,

I think if I am selling a puppy for several hundred pounds the £8 for a pedigree is only a very small fraction of this. I feel it gives a much more professional look and is more official than a home made one so I am willing to pay the small cost.

>I feel it gives a much more professional look and is more official than a home made one

Yes, I suppose it does look more official but I just don't like the KC pedigrees, I particularly dislike the layout. Also with home made pedigrees, you can add photos if you want, plus any health test results over and above those required.

I'm sticking with our home made pedigrees, I really do think they're better.

> I particularly dislike the layout. Also with home made pedigrees, you can add photos if you want, plus any health test results over and above those required.
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> I'm sticking with our home made pedigrees, I really do think they're better.

Ditto.

I do think the Kennel club registration certificate should include a pedigree as part of the registration certificate as it does for 4 generations on the Norwegian (and I assume other overseas reg's).

There is an awful lot of empty space on the registration document.

There should also be proper boxes for Eye test result stamps on the back maybe.

I'm sticking with our home made pedigrees, I really do think they're better.

Exactly - the fact you don't even get hip scores on the KC one I think is really bad (this was always printed on Swedish pedigrees, and I know they are on most foreign ones), and Champions not printed in red looks so plain -plus of course no photos or other personalisation. To me it looks like the breeder wanted as little work as possible if they don't supply their own pedigree. Now if we had what they have abroad with pedigree and registration certificate all in one, that would be different. I have no idea what Swedish pedigrees look like these days as my last Swedish dog was born in 1984, but on that you also had space for hip score results, certificate of entirety, certificate saying there was no umbilical hernia, all sorts of other things, plus your reg cert/ pedigree is also your vaccination card. Everything in one place which was very handy.