Mission / Genetic Tracking / Qualification / Purpose / Summary / Clarification

INTERNATIONAL KENNEL CLUB MISSION
Focus for the English Bulldog Miniature Purebred

The International Kennel Club, IKC provides a genetic tracking registry of purebred animals of established breeds and species and new rare canine breeds being developed to AKC standards as accepted by IKC.

It is open to all AKC register breeds of canines and breeds being developed to AKC standards. AKC breeders would choose to ad IKC to their AKC registry for the purpose of professional health tracking and feedback for breed improvement and for documenting sources that the breeder has worked successfully to significantly reduce or eliminate genetic faults especially those know to be common and peculiar to the particular breed.

Both breeder and owners report all conditions to their IKC representative for inclusion into the genetic tracking at IKC resulting in appropriate change to improve the breed. The conditions are presented to IKC medical and veterinary specialist doctors for feedback which is related to breeders and owners.

IKC Breeders adjust and change breeding to improve the line and to reduce chance of genetic problems. The breeders who are caring the IKC credential are thereby known to be practicing breed enhancement trough genetic tracking and breed improvement. In IKC all off springs must be register and the breeder therefore pays for the cost of registration because with out registration of all siblings there could not be accurate feedback for genetic tracking. The one sibling in a litter not registered could prove to be the one that has a defect at some level that needs follow up and a possible change in breeding

QUALIFICATION OF GENTIC TRACKING

Business Registries that claim genetic tracking should be asked if all animals of each litter are registered and who pays for this service to insure that there is 100% participation for registration tracking. If it is not 100% then the registry may serve well for prestige of ownership but the follow up in genetic tracking would not be accurate or effective because some of the population of possible effected animals would be missing.

Only breeders that feel confident in their program and really want to improve their line or have improved it and want to verify its continued improvement will be interested in joining the International Kennel Club’s Genetic tracking registry so that they can be an IKC breeder or an AKC, IKC breeder. The prestige of IKC is not that the owners animal is registered but that the owners animal is register in a legitimate genetic tracking registry that the breeders has paid for to insure the best quality of each animal in the program.

BREED DEVELOPMENT QUALIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION

In new rare breeds being developed to AKC standards for possible entry into AKC as a registered breed in the future, the program must show they are sincerely working toward meeting requirements for entry in AKC and meet requirements for entry into IKC. Breeders producing pups of the new rare breed must have at a minimum two separate beginning bloodlines to begin the breed.

The bloodlines of the different breeders of the new rare breed must not have different breed contents in the proposed rare breeds. Specifically if a new breed in being formed from other AKC breeds, then each breeder in the program of a potential new AKC breed must use exactly the same breed combinations in the animals of the proposed breed of the club as required by AKC and IKC. New rare breeds may not be label as one breed animals using other different breed combination in the same club and are calling it the same breed to a single standard. There must be a club for each breed combination.

However, some accepted AKC breeds are recognized and shown nationally as described at the Westminster show, that have different classifications with in the same breed. These types are made up of the same breed combination with separate distinctive features and standards developed in the breed and described in the standards of its club or association may qualify as one breed.

REGISTRY PURPOSE AND REQUIRERMENTS

International Kennel Club, IKC, is not for the purpose of settling disputes of verification of new breed claims by competing breeders and will not address those issues other than to accept a new breed under the standards of AKC and IKC.

A new breeder may not claim recognition in IKC until IKC has completed the preliminary research study and the breeder been fully recognized and accepted into IKC. Before acceptance to IKC a breed may be considered and passed over several times before acceptance, but will be accepted at the correct time. In the case of a new rare breed not yet in AKC, all breeders of the new rare breed must agree to join IKC and register all breeding stock and pets with IKC with follow up reporting and to report breeder feedback contract with new owners. The owners are require to report all genetic concerns the life of each animal registered for them by the breeder in IKC.

The breeder requires adopting owners to agree to report any and all concerns of conditions of suspect health as part of the adoption contract and to report transfers to any new adoptive owner and who must also accepts the reporting obligation of the contract. Since the registration is automatic the adoptive owner does not receive a registration application papers on fee for service as in an optional registration, but receives papers of registration conformation and a state health certificate with the animal. And the breeder agrees to report any defects or problems discovered by the breeder or the state health exam vet to the prospective owner prior to shipment of the animal for a new acceptance in an adjusted or rejection of contract.

SUMMARY

The International Kennel Club, IKC is for the purpose of quality through quality breeders and owners that wish to continually improve their breed over time. And who will register all animals produced from IKC register breeding animals and have as part of their agreement with owners notification of all significant symptoms or conditions that the owner and breeder or their vets believe could be effected by genetics and could possibly improved by a change in breeding either with different combinations or the elimination of an animal as a breeding partner to be returned to pet status.

The new IKC breeder may claim IKC status after a sufficient period of time, when quality is determine form breeder history and owners pets in the applying breeder’s program. And that IKC believes quality has already been developed over a sufficient period of time through verifying the quality of the starting breeding animals as well as tracking of new litters with adequate time for feedback from new owners. Then a breeder may include in advertising IKC registry status or AKC, IKC status that in itself is verification of breed status and acceptance in the view of International Kennel Club, IKC.

The International kennel Club Genetic Tracking Registry is of Ikc, Inc. an Arkansas Corporation. Others using the name International Kennel Club include an active canine Chicago Club and an Eastern commercial pet website, neither of which are in any way connected to this International Kennel Club, IKC.

The Registrar of IKC is a medical doctor with medical research experience and the President is a behavioral research doctor with statistical and empirical research experience prior to association with International Kennel Club, IKC.

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