Please try to keep this thread on topic.

Thanks.

His progress since we first brought him home with us. He was very underweight when we first got him (first picture, 8 weeks), he's come a long way!

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Miki & My Beloved Bengals http://mybelovedbengals.blogspot.com/

Shiloh, Darcy, Rudy The Roodster & Ozzy...

As I said previously, the only cats she kept there were all bengals, so i'm pretty sure he is a bengal, and yes I know without papers I will never know for sure, but I doubt given the situation we will never know properly, they did find registration papers at the property for all of the adults but none for any of the kittens so obviously none of the kittens were registered. Either way, I wasn't planning on showing him or breeding him so it matters not. He is still a bengal. I know in previous threads people have said that without papers he isn't a bengal...that's like saying that without a birth certificate you're not a human...ridiculous. He is whatever breed he is and doesn't need papers to prove it as I am not showing him or planning on breeding him He is doing amazingly well and I am so proud of him, my little trooper!

Just wanted to correct this statement for information

'It is different with dogs as there is no 'active' register. Pretty much anyone can breed their dog'

People are still bound to endorsements if their dogs are registered pedigree, an endorsement is the same as being on the non-active register, once lifted the progeny can be registered but whilst an endorsement remains on the registration progeny cannot be registered with a governing body.

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Miki & My Beloved Bengals http://mybelovedbengals.blogspot.com/

Shiloh, Darcy, Rudy The Roodster & Ozzy...

Yup its up to the breeder if they place the endorsements on but they are :-

"x" Puppy is restricted from being exported
"R" Puppy is restricted from having it's progeny registered by the kennel club

These are placed by the breeder to safe-guard their puppies, even dogs sold for breeding will have R endorsement on if that particular breed is subject to health tests and will only remove it once proof of satisfactory health tests are received - for example my breed german shepherds are hip and elbow scored at 1yr of age. Only when removed can their offspring be registered. Do check - but I am right lol

ETA here you go, here is the official blurb http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/365

Oh i know its just i thought i would post in advance of somebody going down that route to save people saying i wont be able to show him etc as i am already aware thank you for all your comments

You can add limited registration on a dog which will not allowed the dog to have puppies regiested as that dog being sire or dam but there is not an active registry for dogs! When I sold my puppies I placed limited registration on them so they could not have puppies and have them registerd and the only way they could is if they had AKC contact me as the breeder to give them breeding rights! I dont think that CKC has the same thing though as it cost nothing to register with CKC and you can register a mutt with them! I have a poodle maltise mix a mutt basically and he is regiestered with CKC. Its totally different in the breeding world with dogs

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Thats fair enough lollo, but i never would have left him there under those conditions, and had i had support with me i would have taken them all. Anybody who would leave an animal in those kind of conditions because of papers is a heartless cold person. Irrelevant whether you think i should have or not, it was the right thing to do and so i did. I am fully aware of the relevance of registration papers etc as i have egyptian maus, all registered with certificates,some i show, some i dont

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I agree with you completely and i am so very sorry to hear that you lost one of your babies, cannot imagine the heartache you must have felt and are still feeling. I only meant that in this particular case i just sought to help him and i did think initially theough the registered breeders list that she was a trusted and responsible breeder. of which she most certainly is not.