Well if that don't beat all.  I have just seen a breeder (Kennel Club site) who's only accreditation is that they have two dogs which they have bred twice in the space of 7 months.  Hey if thats how you do it the PF's will be making a mint.

Someone who does not even have a dog has been accepted as an Accredited Breeder! I do wonder what the KC had in mind with this surely they could not be so blatant as to have done it just for money.

It would seem the AB scheme is its own worst enemy. I wonder if any good honest breeders have left because they are unhappy with how its going? Neat trick that, being an AB without even owning a dog....you would think dog ownership would be sort of essential really :) :) :)

I'v seen a litter of crossbreeds advertised by someone using the KC AB in their advertising....how odd is that!

Someone who does not even have a dog has been accepted as an Accredited Breeder!

:-D :-D :-D

What a complete farce, the fact is the good breeders accredited or not, will always be good breeders, we just keep paying out more and more to show our breeding ethics when I guess there is no real need, GP generally don't know one from the other, the KC obviously don't have any real policing of it, the bad will always cut corners, or get their status even without a dog. :-D You can only laugh.

Have just looked at the form and there is little to stop anyone joining, I have three males and a spayed bitch but I could join with no problem. People owning one bitch could, one assumes, join by stating they are wishing to breed. Those who have registered a litter would be accepted. In fact, it seems, only those who have been through a KC discipline investigation and been declared at fault would be refused.

The policing policy is so weak as to be almost no existent.

A good idea but badly thought through. Think as things are it will encourage the GP to buy from these people but is in danger of making those caring breeders who have joined t0 be thought of with disrespect they do not deserve.

Have you alerted the KC to the breeder advertising cross bred pups using their ABS logo?

There was one in Bedfordshire, reported to me recently and on checking with the KC they told me that the breeder was not accredited at all. They went on to say he was advertising as accredited and when challenged by the KC he said he was not KC accredited but was accredited by the RSPCA and local council, so it was perfectly legal to advertise that he was an accredited breeder.

I wouldnt join this scheme.  An apparent 'co-founder' of this scheme churns them out on a conveyor belt so that means nothing to me.  Would rather sell puppies from my own reputation rather than paying the KC for something I find a huge waste of time as it is not managed properly.

Have you alerted the KC to the breeder advertising cross bred pups using their ABS logo?

Errr, no....*hangs head down and slopes off out of the room*.................. now off to see which flippin dog site it was on.......

I also reported a site selling Lab x Poodles and using AB status recently, and I got responses from the KC, so I believe they followed it up.

M.

Wonder, in law, how strong a case the KC has to stop people saying they are Accredited or KC Accredited. The logo one assumes is covered in law but the word Accredited can't be nor can Kennel. As a Kennels can be Council Accredited to use the term Accredited Kennels could be used by almost anyone from the BYB that is approved of by her neighbour to someone who's premises are accredited by the council to someone who has actually joined the KC Accredited Breeders Scheme.

It would have been better is they had called it something more specific like Kennel Club Approved Breeder. Even then I am afraid that the GP will be confused and most, once they have decided they want a pup will want it today and get the first one they can find. The idea of waiting for something is not practiced by many these days.