Ahh, but people like this seem to fnd out that the council are onto them and it's amazing how the dogs go missing when someone goes round!!

I would, have, and it's the best £150 I have spent. Papers really don't mean anything unless you are going to breed or show. I don't do either of them, just enjoy my dog.

I think papers, that confirm that the parents have been health tested and give some credence to the pedigree such that the purchasers can confirm that the pup comes from lines of good temperament, are probably more important in a pup bought to be loved for many years in the family home than a pup bought for the purposes of showing (although very few dogs will fall into the just showing category most being destined to be loved in the family home as well :))

Well, I'm making an assumption that you are making an assumption that I bought the dog from a pup or indeed at all?  Not necessarily the case and not relevant in this case.
Regarding hip scores - I know what the hip scores are in the lines.  They may not publish them on the website but they are disclosed on the pedigree.  But even that's no guarantee that a puppy won't have bad hips from parents with good hips.

You said 'My KC registered dog is from the Gefni kennels in Warwickshire.  I don't know what tests they do???'   

This is why I asked was you not interested in knowing before obtaining your dog if so why not (simply interested) and I was not assuming that your dog was a pup at all, my first GSD bitch that I re-homed after retiring from breeding was 6 years old and I ensured that I knew the hip score of her and generations mainly because I wanted to be prepared for the future.  I am not passing judgement over the breeders just stating that they do not say on their web site what the hip scores are which I do find slightly odd, if they are low why be shy about it? 

Trust me, I know only too well that a dog from generations of great hips scores can in fact have HD - my parents Leonberger has HD to her left hip and suffers in great pain even though she was from low hip scored lines, that does not mean that I would not check all necc health test prior to taking on another dog - that my STRONG and shared opinion!

Sorry if you think I am having a stab at you, but I just wanted to know why you did not ask about health checks, maybe it was not important for what ever reason I was just curious.

Ok :)  I neither breed nor show so KC registration isn't as important to me as it is to some.  I knew the dog before I aquired him and his character and temperament suited me but not his previous owner.  Health tests wouldn't have mattered because I would have had him regardless - and I'll still have him whatever further problems may or may not occur.  That's how I am.

BUt Lara, we have our dogs no matter what problems but try to minamise.  Yes there's no gaurnetee (unfortantly we found out that one! :( ) but there is less chance of going blind, getting HD, have a gentical problem! 

As it is though this thred is about KC reg or not....not about health tests!

NO!

The same as I wouldn't buy a car without paper work :)

A crossbreed or mongrel, or a non-recognised breed, yes. A pedigree, no. I'd be very suspicious why it wasn't registered.