Papers!! Papers!!! Papers!!!!

Uglydog and Mr. Mason both expressed how I feel about it pretty good. I would like to add though that so many of these dogs that so many of us call pure breeds started as "crosses". In our hog hunting world there are several. The Plotts, originated by the Plott family, the Catahoula, the Dogo, etc. etc. Selective line breeding and inbreeding was done and hand written records were keep by these folks for generations and as the popularity grew and more people took interest, registries were formed to better organize and keep track of the animals. The AQHA has crosses in their registries between traditional quarter horses and thorobreds. It's a cross and it's on record. Because of the papers, you can look and see right off that this animal probably is or isn't bred for the discipline your gonna use the animal for. I myself I don't have a problem paying a little more for someone keeping track of the dogs history. You naturally, as rule, are gonna pay more the dogs out of the most popular or in demand bloodlines. Do people slap false papers on animals? Sure they do. Know the people your getting the animal from, be it from references, personal experience or whatever method. Do I think people get carried away with the prices on the "papered" dogs because they are papered, a lot of times I do. Are they good because of the papers or the lineage behind them? I guess I'm saying I don't mind at all paying for the past in this circumstance and that if I can have it down on pen and paper it just makes things that much easier for me.