| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Anonymous | It is well known that pet store purchase from puppy mills and other distribution channels that have less than desireable conditions for their animals. Please discontinue the association with Pet stores of all kinds. |
| 52 | Deb Sullivan | I just feel this will make it very easy for the puppy mills to sell their pups it scares me, we have enough problems in all of the AKC breeds without letting the people that breed anything all the time |
| 53 | Jerry Shields | |
| 54 | Pat Shuler | By continuing to legitamize commercially bred dogs, the AKC is defrauding the purebred dog buyer and is flying in the face of the AKC's own standards and the standards of responsible dog breeders.
How many times have we read and heard from AKC that AKC registration is not proof of quality breeding and that buyers of purebred dogs should buy ONLY from responsible breeders.
High volume breeders are not responsible breeders by any interpretation of the term - the very term "high volume" precludes any possibility of quality. |
| 55 | Doug Coulter | The AKC is out of control-totally out of control.It's time for all of the BOD's to step down and a: Get mental help
b: Get into a drug and alcohol program
As a person who loves his breed-Golden Retrievers-who works hard in rescue of all dogs-who cares for the health and well being of animals--I'm shiocked at the AKC--but lately nothings shocks me about this OUT OF CONTROL oprginazation
DOUG-with the dogs with the prestigious UKC and SKC titles and the crapola AKC ones-cause I don't consider the AKC titles/registrations worth a penny anymore |
| 56 | Judy Charon | I STRONGLY OPPOSE the alliance/support of AKC with brokers and HVBs and pet shops.
If done, this will have a huge NEGATIVE impact on the dogs and those breeding for the true quality , health, and caliber of sound canine breeds. |
| 57 | Anonymous | |
| 58 | Flo Bastuba | AKC since when are you not there to protect the
purebred. Money should not be the most important
thing. We the repuable breeders are doing all we
can to help our breed and put a stop to selling to Pet Shops, BYB and puppymills and what do you do. What a dirty shame. |
| 59 | Nancy E. Phillips | As a rescuer and supporter of AKC events, etc., I am appalled the AKC would even consider such an alliance. |
| 60 | Jeannine DeWald | Those who voted for this should be ashamed. Pet shop pups' parents are not tested for inherited health problems, and their pedigrees are typically pure fiction. The worst health problems in my breed are found in pet shop puppies. You're making me ashamed to own AKC-registered dogs! |
| 61 | Ginger Willis | I am very dissapointed in the AKC with this PetLand deal that has come to light. Endorsing puppy mills, and commercial breeders is NOT the way the AKC should be acting. The AKC should be endorsing the "Responsible" breeders who breed for the betterment of their breed. These "Responsible" breeders do testing on their breeding stock. Do the "mills"? NO! It is all about the money, the all mighty dollar. "Responsible" breeders screen their prospective puppy buyers to try to ensure the best homes. Pet Store will sell to anyone who can produce the money to buy the dog, or cat for that matter.
I think it is high time that the AKC removes their head from their backside and wake up! They should be for the betterment of the K-9 populations, not for padding the wallet. It is time we start looking for other venues to show our dogs in if the AKC is not interested in our "well bred" dogs! |
| 62 | Tiffany | |
| 63 | Tiffany | |
| 64 | Paula Wiliams | This agreement with an international Pet Store chain goes against everything "Reputable" Breeders have been fighting for years! How can you just join ranks of the HVB in the name of money!!! Why don't you start saving money (what a concept!) and move your happy tails out of NYNY and into a more central area with much lower overhead? that would be a good start! |
| 65 | Patricia Tocalis | AKC has finally done the unspeakable. Give credence to the very people they purport to stop. The puppy millers. Seems they don't even have the backbone to, at the very least, require all on limited registrations. And you call yourselves "conservators of purebred dogs". What a joke!!!!!! This is a slap in the face to all reputable breeders that you say you support. |
| 66 | Anonymous | |
| 67 | Anonymous | |
| 68 | Joanne Bartkoski | I strongly oppose AKCs contract with Petland because it promotes commerical breeding of dogs. AKC should be able to find other means to fatten their coffers as opposed to promoting commercial breeding kennels. This is wrong and sends the wrong message. People should NOT buy puppies from petshops. They should buy from a breeder who can give them guidance and help with their new puppy. This contract will increase the number of discarded 4-12 month old dogs and increase an already burdened rescue system in the United States. |
| 69 | Joanne Bartkoski | I strongly oppose AKCs contract with Petland because it promotes commerical breeding of dogs. AKC should be able to find other means to fatten their coffers as opposed to promoting commercial breeding kennels. This is wrong and sends the wrong message. People should NOT buy puppies from petshops. They should buy from a breeder who can give them guidance and help with their new puppy. This contract will increase the number of discarded 4-12 month old dogs and increase an already burdened rescue system in the United States. |
| 70 | Lorraine Pedersen | I am absolutely appalled that the AKC would even THINK of aligning themselves with puppy millers. If this association goes through, I will end my alliance with AKC immediately. I have two dogs registered with AKC and am involoved in several AKC types of events. I will halt those immediately and cancel my subscription to the AKC Gazette.
Please reconsider this - I still cannot believe that the AKC would even consider this horrible mesalliance.
Lorraine Pedersen |
| 71 | Leanne Howard | I want to puke even thinking that the AKC took this into consideration, let alone agreed to this. What is next? |
| 72 | Denise King | |
| 73 | Anonymous | If AKC allows PetLand puppies to be registered then how can AKC advocate responsible breeders? It puts the whole world of responsibly bred pure-bred dogs in jeopardy. How many of us watch Westminster KC show every year and listen to David Frei talk about buying from responsible breeders?
AKC, DO NOT ALLOW PET STORE BOUGHT PUPPIES TO BE REGISTERED. |
| 74 | Keri Driggers | The whole thought that the AKC is enabling the most horrid of breeding practices to not only continue, but prosper, is disgusting, and an injustice to all pets and responsible pet owners/breeders in America. SHAME ON YOU AKC. |
| 75 | Chris Enrico | |
| 76 | Karen Rupert | |
| 77 | Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D. | Support for puppy mills, puppy mill brokers and pet shop sale of dogs is one of the many reasons why every expert and pioneer connected with my rare breed has criticzed the AKC and refuses to "go AKC." With your latest contract with Petland you've finally lost any semblance of a moral edge. Way to go! |
| 78 | Nancy Chretien | Please do not negate or devalue the validity of the AKC registration of my puppies by agreeing to help any pet store to sell them, especially without a spay/neuter contract. I am active in rescue and fostered 3 dogs with liver shunts this past winter. 1 couldn't be saved, 1 is dying, and the 3rd was saved after over $2000 of specialized vet expense. It was sad for the dogs and the owners who loved them. This is just 1 hainous condition that arises from bad breeding. Please do not allow this to continue. It hurts all breeds and all responsible breeders who support the AKC, and promote AKC registration and programs while breeding genetically screened, healthy, socialized dogs. |
| 79 | Sandra Brown | Isn't it time the United States pulls together and
gets rid of puppy mills forever? What happened to caring about animals FIRST? |
| 80 | Anonymous | It is reprehensible for the AKC to work with Petland to get puppies registered. It is purely to get the money and a sad state of affairs for owners of purebred dogs everywhere. They get their puppies from puppy mills. How can you condone puppy mills? |
| 81 | vicki | Brokers are just another name for puppy mills. Why would the AKC want to have anything to do with them |
| 82 | Debbie Davidson | I am so furious, I can't even think what to say here
without using many expletives. |
| 83 | Howard Bernier | Why would they have even thought of putting puppy-millers out in front of dedicated breeders. |
| 84 | Patricia Armstrong | As a breeder, exhibitor and supporter of the AKC for many years I am against this. |
| 85 | Dr. Sandra L. Hanson | By forming an alliance with brokers and HVB's, you are going against everthing I believe in for my breeding program! |
| 86 | Laura Lovell | AKC is already well down the path to making their registration papers worth no more than those of Continental or National Kennel Club. Please stop & rethink what you are doing. |
| 87 | Sharon Schuckman | This is another way the AKC is going to ruin the purebred lines and help people buy sick puppies. |
| 88 | Jan Staffileno | I am shocked that the AKC would even consider this! |
| 89 | Jenn | |
| 90 | Sharron Hurlbut | AKC's supporting pet shops is just wrong.
What are you thinking?
Please, wake up and give a care for the quality of dogs that keep you in business. |
| 91 | Anonymous | AKC's supporting pet shops is just wrong.
What are you thinking?
Please, wake up and give a care for the quality of dogs that keep you in business. |
| 92 | Margaret A Cobb | I think this decision to joint with Petland is a poor decision from the prespective of an owner who is active in performance venue.s I purchase my dogs from someone I have a relationship with, who knows my goals, and who know the personality I want in a dog. A minimum hourly paid employee is not going to provide that same relationship. If my first performance dog had been from a puppy mill with the usually problems, I would not have purchased my second and third performance dog. This may generate extra revenue at first, but once the buying public begins to have issues with their dogs, they will not be going back to buy another and the loss of future revenue will eliminate the current gain and set you back more. |
| 93 | Melody Townsend | All this will do is hurt dogs in the long run. |
| 94 | Virginia Padawer | Please refrain from going into any deals with puppy mills, brokers or pet shops that sell pets. |
| 95 | Kendyl Glanz | |
| 96 | cherry lawson | |
| 97 | Ann M. McHugh | I have helped with rescue runs out of the puppymills in MO and have seen firsthand what AKC is planning on calling "purebreds" - mixes of maltese and bichons that weigh 25#'s, chis that weigh 15#'sand griffons with eyes so infected they're blind. AKC should be stopping "mills" not going into partnership with them! |
| 98 | Donald Hancock | |
| 99 | Richard George | |
| 100 | Debbie Brown-Thompson | Hmmm, perhaps I need to start attending UKC dog shows rather than AKC dog shows? I've always thought AKC represented the more responsible breeders. Please find a better way to increase your income. |