THE DOG LOVERS ACCREDITED BREEDER SCHEME
      ENCOURAGING GOOD BREEDING PRACTICE

The Dog Lovers registration club UK have an Accredited Breeder scheme.
We like to think all our members are responsible caring breeders and that the welfare of their dogs and puppies is their primary concern, with this in mind we have introduced our Dog Lovers accredited Breeder scheme, an extra 'optional' service for those breeders who wish to sign up to a code of conduct which will allow them to use the term  'Dog Lovers Accredited Breeder' and display the term 'Accredited breeder' next to their name on all puppy Pedigree's and registrations.
The breeder must agree to the content of the breeder scheme and sign the Accredited Breeder code of conduct and abide by the rules of the scheme thereafter.

CONDITIONS WHICH ALL ACCREDITED BREEDERS MUST FOLLOW:

1.Inform all potential new puppy owners that a Dog Lovers Registered puppy is not for 'show' but is a valued family pet 'first and foremost'
2.Allow mother of puppies to be seen and arrange viewing of Sire (if requested)
3.Register their puppies and adult dogs with Dog Lovers Registration Club uk
4.Breeder must ensure no puppy leaves home until it is 8 weeks of age or over and so is fully weaned
5.Must not breed from Dam until she is over the age of one year
6.Must not breed from Dam once she reaches age of 8 years old
7.Must not breed more than one litter from the Dam in a twelve month period
8.Must not breed more than 6 six litters from the Dam in her lifetime
9.Must give out the Dog Lovers registered paperwork, i.e. registration/transfer of ownership at the point of sale or give a written and signed guarantee that the papers will follow soon after.
10.Must give new puppy owner a signed contract/invoice at the point of sale and keep copy for him/herself  (Dog Lovers will provide you with duplicate sales invoices when you have registered your litter if you wish to use them)
11.Be available to the new puppy owner for after sales advice and help if it is required
12.Informs the potential new owner into the individual breed requirements, for example diet, exercise, grooming requirements, and is the breed suitable for the type of family and home it is going to?
13.Identify their own Dogs by Microchip, Tatoo or DNA and keep records of this.
14.Before breeding breeder seek advice from their own vet as to which health tests (if any) may be required for your specific breed -Your vet can arrange these tests for you 
15.Make sure your puppies are well socialised before they leave you.
16.Provide adequate whelping facilities for the Dam
17.Record the results of any Health checks pertaining to the Dam and or Sire on application forms when registering your litter and allow Dog Lovers to record and store this information on its database and print this information on Pedigrees
(this service is already in use for all members and not just members of ABS)
18.Give the new puppy owner any vaccination certificates and worming records to date.

The Dog Lovers Accredited Breeder scheme is currently FREE to all conscientious Dog Lovers club breeders/members willing to sign up to it as we do not feel the need to penalise good breeders.
The phrase 'Accredited Breeder' will appear on the registration and Pedigree paperwork of any puppies you register
Dog Lovers Club Uk Ltd reserve the right to remove any Breeder from the scheme at any time if the rules of said scheme are broken.
Thank you

A new avenue for puppy farm and BYB's  General public will think its ok and a good breeder.  

Absolute rubbish on the majority of what makes a good breeder

I think they may fall foul of the use of the work Accredited as the KC did !
However I suppose it is not all bad. Some of it needs tightening up such as breeding from a bitch at 1 year old and the 6 litters bit. The kennel club have only just changed thier rules to tighten up on these points.
I would rather see the DLR trying to do something than just registering anything and anyone. Any small step has to be a step in the right direction. After all it is quite a lage registery now and better have it regulated as nothing will stop it being used now. At least they are declairing that is does not make the pups eligable for showing and states it is for pets only. Clarity is good. It has taken the Kennle club many many years to start to sort out it's own system to weedle out the undesirables.
Maybe the KC will sit up and take notice if another registery starts to gain crediblity. They have had the monopoly for too many years and have just sat on thier derriers and got away with it. This may make them tighten up even more and stop registering puppy farmed pups. A little healthy competition is never bad.
Aileen

I don't think it will make any difference because they don't seem to be doing any checks. You have to ask your vet if your breed needs any checks? What if the vet simply says "Your bitch is fit and healthy, breed from her" as some do? Or the person simply do not bother asking the vet. Then the pups will still be "registered" whereas with the KCABS the pups will be refused registration if parents haven't had the required tests.

I quite agree, however as it has rollercoasted now out of control and is being widly used I am happy to see they are  at least trying to regulate it. Do you suggest they do nothing ? Personnaly I would like to see it closed but it will  not happen so better it comes under some control and this is a first step towards it. Once they have made the rules it is easier to put pressure on them to tighten them up.
Aileen

> I quite agree, however as it has rollercoasted now out of control and is being widly used I am happy to see they are  at least trying to regulate it.

I see no mention of a customer feedback system let alone a team of inspectors, as the KC has, so without any policing I can't really see this is an effective attempt to regulate at all.

Do you suggest they do nothing ?

Yes. :) Because the less they do, the more obvious it will be that there is a huge difference between this and KC registration. And I still hope that one day Joe Bloggs down the road will wake up and realise there's more to buying a puppy than just handing over some money.

My vets don't have a clue regarding many health tests, but thankfully are interested when I tell them what is needed in my breed.  Vets just in reality don't have a clue.

When people can use false paperwork with DLR and use kennel names of well known dogs of other breeds it is not a registry that I could support!

Well done for them trying to improve but I still do not value them.

do they actualy require the healt tests to be done, as it says nothing about must do them, just ask about them. Nore does it mention proof needs to be sent in that they have been done

They don't actually require anything, it is just a smokescreen to give some semblance of breeding ethics and a veneer of credibility to the registry and those using it.  As there is no control in place to make sure dogs given as parents even exist, are the breed they are claimed or are related at all to any dogs given in their pedigrees how on earth is anything they suggest breeders do supposed to have value? 

Exactly the whole thing was designed to bamboozle the public into thinking registered with them is the same or as good as Kennel Club registration.

There is no good reason why a litter cannot be KC registered.  It means that somewhere down the lien someone has used non pedigree, unregistered endorsed or over-bred breeding stock.  The dogs bred from may even have been stolen or rescues.

They started this shortly after the KC started theirs, although it was not as long or as detailed.