Hi all

please can any one help

me dog was put out to stud 15 weeks ago
a healthy litter of 8 were born 6 weeks ago :D
at the time of the matting i asked for pick of the litter which was agreed :D
i signed the KC papers and the bitch went home
i got a phone call today saying that the puppies might not be able to have there papers as this was a back to back breeding (which i did not know about :( ).
The pup that iam having is being sold to a friend that want to show her, so she needs papers.
my question is will the kc let the owner of the bitch register the pup's??
i know a few years ago they stopped it but i thought that they have changed it back am i right (only breeders with more than 5 litter's a year can not)?
the owner of the bitch is going to phone the kc but i want to know so i can let me friend know whats going to happen 

thank you

hello forgive me here for being a tad silly but is back to back mean a litter straight after a litter???

HI Raffystaffy

yeah it does sad i know :(, if i had know this before i would not of let her use me boy

Hi if the bitches owner is a licenced breeder then no the puppies wont be able to be registered. If however they aren't then the KC will register puppies from a back to back mating.GIllian

HI Gillian

thank you for getting back to me,
its sad to think that there is a litter only 7 months older than this litter and the KC will still register them :(
but i can now tell me friend that she can still have her puppy :D

i would have told me friend to go to a diffrent litter all together but the colour that she has wanted for so long is in this litter and she has already started to bond with this litter girl

I suppose that's a lesson people with stud dogs should learn. Ask the bitch owners when the bitch last had a litter. Makes you wonder why the litter was bred now :(

Jesse

Could you as a "stud dog owner" check with the kennel club yourself? to see when a bitch last had a litter?

Karen

HI Jesse

i was told that the bitch has never had a litter before, this was her first one, and she was only just gone 2 so i thought that it was her first time.  she didn't look like she had, had puppies before so i did not think to cheek up.

The rule was rescinded for non commercial breeders (those not requiring a breeders license), so should be no trouble pups being registered.

Breeding on succeeding seasons is certainly a questionalbe practice, unless it is a bitch that has long inter season intervals (like 10 months in Welsh Springers and other breeds being common) or a bitch has had a season im between , but has seasons every four or five months, a small litter of 1 or two might also be a good reason if bitch is getting on in age, otherwise I would still wait another season.

Have heard of vets advising another litter when only one or two pups survive, don't know why but guess they must be a reason.