Tracing a pet store pup?

[wildo]

Yes- Pimg was purchased from a pet store. There- I've said it. Am I ashamed of it? No; I didn't know any better. Would I do it again? Of course not!

Ok- with that out of the way, I am very curious on attempting to trace her lines. I don't even know if it is possible, but I know there is a LOT of experience on this board and perhaps you guys can help me.

Pimg is not AKC registered (registered with APRI- yeah... I know...). I have all her registration info through them, but I've googled pretty much every name and number on this piece of paper to no avail. Here's the info I have:

Sire: Graber's King of Montgomery
Sire's Reg. Number: C06-ZA-BI-35354T

Dam: K&K's Molly
Dam's Reg Number: K04-AZ-BI-30961T

Breeder: Delilah Knepp
MC: 473E206B32

Is there really anything I can do with this info? I'm just curious to see if there are any working lines in her at all. I am just doing this out of curiosity. And in case anyone try to think I am looking into this to breed her- she's been spayed for many years now. I just think it would be cool to know a bit more than I know now about her lineage: which is pretty much zilch.

If it helps, her parents were almost certainly breed in Indiana, most likely near Indianapolis since she was sold at a local pet store here (Uncle Bill's).

(PLEASE READ: Don't flame me for buying a pet store pup! I didn't realize at the time what I was doing, and I fully plan on getting a dog from a reputable breeder in the future!)

[JeanKBBMMMAAN]

http://www.petshoppuppies.com/report...=Knepp_Delilah

Started by googling the name of the person who was producing those puppies! I don't think you will be finding any information on her family - just a guess.

[KZoppa]

wish i could help. I will simply say good luck! i would be curious as well

[Emoore]

The only thing I can think of is contacting APRI and seeing if they can send you a longer pedigree? Like a 5 or 6 generation one?

[jocoyn]

Well, I guess this is an obvious question but have you contacted the registry? When I googled APRI dog registry their website came up

https://secure.aprpets.org/

[wildo]

Originally Posted by Emoore

The only thing I can think of is contacting APRI and seeing if they can send you a longer pedigree? Like a 5 or 6 generation one?

I have looked into that, but I believe it is something like $70 It might actually be my only way to ever find out though. And I would think that there is a good chance that it is pretty much a dead end there too. I would assume that all those dogs are probably APRI dogs as well, and I probably wouldn't get much info on them.

And JeanKBBMMMAAN- thanks for that link! Looks like the breeder is probably a bit shady if she doesn't even have the proper licensing herself. Good grief.

[JeanKBBMMMAAN]

You guys are pretty smart! Will be interesting to see what they have for info!

[wildo]

Originally Posted by jocoyn

Well, I guess this is an obvious question but have you contacted the registry? When I googled APRI dog registry their website came up

https://secure.aprpets.org/

It is my understanding that America's Pet Registry Inc. is a scam registry service. That's why I suspect that even if I do pay the fee to get the four generation pedigree, it probably won't tell me much. I forgot that they do have a forum though. I guess I will register on that forum and see if I can make trouble!

[EDIT] I just registered and found this thread:
OP- I have received my dogs pegidree, how do I go about researching what is on it??
Response- Why would you research? The parents are there, and I don't know how far it goes back, but all is there. If they are champions, it will say so. As far as color or any bad genetics, just contact the breeder. If you want to know more about the parents then you need to contact the breeder. APRI could tell you that.


...Why wouldn't someone want to research the dogs listed on their pedigree??

[Lucy Dog]

The only thing I can provide is that the sire and dam's name sound like american show/pet lines, so that's what I'd guess your dog to be.

Being a pet store pup and without a pedigree from any legitimate registry, I'd just leave it at that and enjoy the dog you have. I'm sure he's a great dog no matter where he's from and what his pedigree says.

[KLCecil]

I did the research once on a petland pup... (OH WAIT THEY COME FROM "REPUTABLE" BREEDERS) *cough* After doing the report it was obvious she came from a puppy mill. These people are not even breeders in my book, I would recommend a BYB before I suggest a puppy mill.
Anyways sorry to rant back to your dog. Honestly you will never find out about your dogs lines because they could just fill in any dog they wanted and it could be false also your dog came from a puppy mill not a breeder so it's even harder to find more than your dog is from puppy mill lines and made up names to fill in a pedigree.