International Progressive Dog Breeders' Alliance - Registrations

Registrations

The IPDBA's breed recognition rules are much more open to accepting breeds which are now in development than the major kennel clubs and nearly all breed clubs. After three generations of registered reproduction within the breed or breed group, the IPDBA states it will offer championship points to dogs from these newly-developed or re-created breeds.

Granting fourth-generation breed championships is a considerably more rapid process than found in traditional breed clubs and kennel clubs, which generally require a significant amount of time accumulating and registering the foundation stock, and a closed stud book. For example, the AKC does not permit breeds to enter its Foundation Stock Service, which tracks pedigrees prior to the closing of the stud book, unless the breed club can show documentation of the "distinct breed over a period of many decades." Even with that much history, the AKC will not grant championship points until a breed graduates from the FSS or even the AKC Miscellaneous class into full breed recognition, a process which takes many generations.

In all breed registries, conformation championship points are awarded only at formal dog shows. In early 2006, the IPDBA official website does not indicate that any IPDBA-sponsored shows have been held since the group was founded in 1996, or are scheduled for the future. There are no posted show rules, show schedules, or show results.

Furthermore, the IPDBA Registration Rules permit the registration of non-purebred dogs so long as the dogs are going to be used as foundation stock for a new breed. Thus, if an entrepreneur wished to attempt to create a non-shedding arctic dog by crossing Poodles and Malamutes, the IPDBA would accept these first-generation "Poolamutes" as foundation stock for a recognized "breed," and would grant Poolamute championships in the fourth generation. In contrast, most traditional breed registries consider "-poo" and "peke-" and similar constructions to be commercially-inspired mongrelizations of the Poodle, Pekingese, and other purebreds targeted for cross-breeding so that the resulting mixed-breed puppies can be marketed as so-called designer dogs.