How important is it to purchase a registered puppy?

 So, you say you don’t need an registered puppy?  Well then, you are asking your breeder to not care about temperament, health or conformation. Our AKC registered parents have been thoughtfully paired to bring you the best selection of puppies with the characteristics of a purebred line of soundness.  Those characteristics include health with genetic testing, OFA x-rays, and DNA testing being done on parents. Another characteristic that is very important is temperament, or personality if you will.  That is something that has been bred into a long line of animals to ensure that you are getting exactly what is expected of a particular breed.  Cuteness is a given in any puppy.  But temperament is bred into a puppy with hopefully, the very best of both parents represented in the offspring. Conformation is the way that the animals are put together.  Getting the body parts of a puppy to represent the best qualities possible is done through breeding of registered, thoughtfully bred, parents. All these things go together to make a breed of dog, what it is. Our puppies are bred with the very best of intentions to bring, of course, cute puppies.  But also, to bring outstanding representatives of the breed that has been an ongoing endeavor for generations. That is why it is important to ask for an AKC registered puppy!