Just give a friend some news about his ("pedigree" staffie)

my friend has a twelve year old staffie buster which he has always thought was good ped with champs in his 5 gen
and for this he payed top money £400 12 years ago .
i was telling him about stenvar were he could get more info about his boys linage .
well he spent 4 hours searching for his papers and today he presented them to me to check out .
now the dodgy bit there hand writen on sherleys pedagree papers (which iv checked on line)and any tom dicky or harriet can buy cheaply and write any info down .
now his boy is a good looking specimin which he has never thought of breeding from(thank gord)but just goes to show there been back yard breeders out for fast buck for many years

I guess it's nothing new is it, sadly

the worst thing is is that people are still falling for the 5 gen as ped papers see it all the time

And still people haven't learnt

I've got 1 of those hand written ones for Tilly but in all fairness the BYB didn't try and pass her off as registered. Shame though as if some of them names and champions were right she had some beautiful dogs in her ancestry

All our staffys and xstaffys are beautiful no matter who their parents, grand parents, great grandparents are LOL

Bandit's pedigree was hand written by Nancy Malec - that's just the way it was done back in the early 80s & before. But I also had the transfer form given to me with the pedigree so I could see that he was registered & I just had to sign the form & send it off with the fee to transfer the ownership to us.

The pedigrees not the most important thing, its the registration papers that count.

And as the dog is that old it would be unlikely that it would be on stamtavler unless the parents were very well known dogs. Doe she not have any registration papers then? Nothing with the dog's registration number?

Nosipho wrote:And as the dog is that old it would be unlikely that it would be on stamtavler unless the parents were very well known dogs. Doe she not have any registration papers then? Nothing with the dog's registration number?

cant remember off the top of my head names but both parents were in red so ment to be champs he not really bothered now anyway but it would have been more of a shock if he had tryed breeding him when he was younger.
iv seen pics when he was in his prime and looking at him you would have no reason to disbelive he was from top show dogs.
maybe it was aLL true and breeder done it this way to stop breeding from????

It may well be that he has some or even all of the blood of what he has on the pedigree, like you say hes a great dog and thats all that matters.
To be honest you can put any amount of indorsments or restrictions on your pedigree if you sell a puppy to someone who sees it as earner then they dont really care about who the dogs breed with or that they are registered or not just advertise them with champion parents and that sells pups quickly

Denise wrote:The pedigrees not the most important thing, its the registration papers that count.

+1
I didnt care much when we got Molly about if there was a five generation pedigree, as long as she was kc reg'd!!