Lies, dam lies and sires
Feb 19, 2020
3 minutes
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THERE’S SOMETHING so impressive about an official Kennel Club pedigree that you feel it must be correct. I suspect most of us trustingly believe that every dog mentioned is indeed an ancestor of the dog whose pedigree it is. So it comes as quite a shock to realise that a pedigree cannot be relied upon as the system of registering a dog’s parentage depends on honesty.
There’s precious little to stop a dishonest breeder making a false registration by naming a dog that isn’t the puppies’ sire
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