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Date Posted: 07:26:44 03/11/08 Tue
Author: Tom P
Subject: How to Stop the AKC Take Over of Your Rare Breed

How to Stop the AKC Take Over of Your Rare Breed


You can’t stop it. You can only control the madness. It only takes one person to request the AKC accept a breed into the AKC FSS provided that breed has been recognized by an acceptable foreign or domestic registry. Full AKC recognition is a different matter.

In order to control the madness you have to join in.

What?... The AKC doesn’t pick an Official Parent Club until the breed moves to the miscellaneous class. Any group can petition the AKC to be considered as the parent club.

Below Taken from the AKC.org Website
http://www.akc.org/reg/fss_details.cfm

If the goal for your breed is AKC recognition, please consider the action items below after your breed is in the FSS®. The recognition process begins with admission of the breed to the Miscellaneous Class.
• Form a strong national breed club and encourage fanciers nationwide to join and get involved. A national breed club with representative membership of about 100 active households is expected for a breed to be placed in the Miscellaneous Class. The amount of active households needed can vary depending on the number of dogs recorded in the FSS®.
• Create a breed standard that conforms to the Guidelines for Writing Breed Standards.
• Form some active committees such as a rescue committee or a health committee, put on shows, and publish a quarterly newsletter. A committed AKC liaison is also an integral part of any breed club seeking recognition, and keeping AKC updated on the club's various activities provides documentation of the fanciers' dedication to full AKC recognition. Current officer and membership lists must be on file with the AKC.
• Encourage other fanciers to record their dogs with FSS®. A minimum of 300-400 dogs with complete three-generation pedigrees, owned by many different individuals residing in various parts of the nation, must be recorded as part of the criteria for approval to move to the Miscellaneous Class. The more dogs you record with the FSS®, the more committed AKC believes the fanciers are to achieving full recognition. If the national breed club has not submitted its breed registry for entry into FSS®, the club is required to do so when moving to the Miscellaneous Class.
• Stay in contact. The AKC moves forward with recognition of breeds whose fanciers want the breed to be recognized. Maintaining regular contact with FSS® staff will show your enthusiasm for and commitment to AKC recognition.
Breeds remain in the Miscellaneous Class one to three years and are evaluated at the end of each year. When all criteria are met the information is presented to the AKC Board of Directors for approval to move to full AKC recognition and breed conformation competition.


If you look at the breeds now in the FSS program, you’ll see some have many clubs listed.

http://www.akc.org/breeds/argentine_dogo/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/caucasian_mountain_dog/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/coton_de_tulear/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/estrela_mountain_dog/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/karelian_bear_dog/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/mudi/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/perro_de_presa_canario/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/schapendoes/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/sloughi/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/small_munsterlander_pointer/
http://www.akc.org/breeds/spanish_water_dog/

Those breeds cannot move to the Miscellaneous until the AKC picks one of the clubs as the parent club. If you start a club and hold more events and sign up more members then the other club, you can beat them out or stall them for a really long time. You just have to convince the AKC you really want to join. Most working people will never try this and so we are doomed to be ruined by the show people.

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