Why a pedigree?
It is meaningful to think that a pup with a pedigree is considerable commitment.
With a pedigree
The following conditions have to be completed for a puppy to obtain a hereditary characteristic form the FCI or the SCS:
- The breeder has to follow a massif formation and has to learn that the puppies have to be raised and take care following specifics rules.
- The breeder advises professionally the buyers of puppies also after the purchase.
- The parents of the puppy have to pass a selection and achieve the exams for the qualification of breeding. This selection concerns two aspects: a character test and on his outside behaviour. The puppies that are not conforming on the standard of the race do not have to be designated for breeding.
- Before the selection, dogs have to pass an examination at a veterinarian.
- The club of the race has to see each pup and checks that all prescriptions and rules are respected and verified that the pup evolves well.
Without pedigree
In Switzerland and the surrounding lands, it happens that the puppy apparently pure race are breeding often with illegal certificates of heredity or papers. Those papers do not have value because each of us can create such papers on his computer.
So, frequently, the person interested in the purchase of a puppy could be easily deceived by deceptive arguments. These so-called breeders would not need documents of the FCI or the SCS and should not worry any more about the administrative harassments. In fact, it has proved that these persons, who practise the breeding of dogs, who do not respect the standards of breeding fixed by the FCI and the SCS on the side of the character and the criteria of good health. These so-called breeders only want to earn money and multiply the dogs which are not brought up by the laws on the animal protection. Often, these so-called breeders make themselves their own certificates of heredity and therefore, cheat their gullible clients.
We still see too often puppies stemming from the poorest Balkan countries arriving in Switzerland, put low and brought up in the most miserable conditions. Their parents are often confined in battery breeding, in cages situated in cellars, where they are forced to give several births every year. The puppies are deprived too soon of their mother (sometimes at 4 or 5 weeks old) and leave for the export.
Most of time, it turns out that these dogs are sick and stuffer grave behavioural problems. It is the reason why every time we acquire a dog resulting from these “factories of animals”, we are only encouraging the process which consists in producing always more.
Today we know that the first 16th weeks of the life of a dog are decisive for its future life. All that the puppy have lived is printed in an indelible way in its memory.
The Tibetan Spaniel Club form Switzerland thus recommends acquiring only puppies resulting from a breeding recognized by the FCI and the SCS.
Get in touch with the breeder already before the birth of the puppy to get acquainted with the mother and ideally also with the father.
We kindly advise you to visit the puppies several times before fetching it. In this way, you shall learn about the future new member of the family and could discuss with the breeder of the important things to know. So the puppy would be prepared as good as possible and this is the way; the puppy would be able to live in his new home after the 10th weeks with all ease.
