Do the papers really matter?

[PeterPanAndWendy]

We have had Pan for over two years and I have failed to Send in his papers. We are not planning on breeding him, he is solely for my own personal enjoyment. I have his papers hanging on our cork board all filled out and ready to go. But am just not in a hurry to send them in.

Am I alone in this, or do you guys think it's best to send them in?

 

[JAKEISGREAT]

I never mailed Jakes either! I don't think they matter one bit if you aren't breeding him!

 

[kazzy220]

If it doesn't matter to you ....... then it doesn't matter!!!

 

[wendykerr]

If you are breeding or showing him, doesn't matter I never sent them in on my pug just for those reasons.

 

[spork3127]

Even though we're not planning on showing or breeding Ellie Mae, we sent in her papers on line the day after bringing her home. I looked at it not so much to say "my dog has papers" or "she has x number of champions in her bloodlines," but more of a comfort level for me. After dropping, what I consider a lot of money, on her, it was nice to have something to look at to reassure me.

 

[aprilemari]

our breeder filed the paperwork for us, we just got the certificate in the mail. to us, it didn't matter, but since we cross the US/CAD border quite often, i think its a security blanket for me to have papers and microchip info on hand.

 

[Ftse 100]

Our Breeder sent the documents in and we received the certificate in the mail, but in the past for other dogs I have sent them in as like spork3197 I paid so much, I too like to have them for my own records.

 

[PeterPanAndWendy]

I definitely know the feeling about *excuse me if I clear my throat* dropping a lot of money... Before Pan we had pound puppies, no reason to file paperwork on them. Shoot, I had to jump through hoops when i went to get one of them fixed because they they wrote HER up as a one year old male... definitely not one and missing a few key parts to be a boy...lol