Yes Janice, but the AB scheme reccomends health testing and a good aftersales policy. Admittedly it is not perfect, but it is a huge step in the right direction. if they altered it slightly to make health testinbg absolutely mandatory and carried out more checks (I think they have already started doing this) that would mean that puppy farmers and BYB's wouldn't be able to register unless they were breeding responsibly. As there is no money in breeding like this, puppy farmers would probably not continue on anywhere near the scale they are on, although not sure if they'd ever disappear altogether.

DLRC was started by puppy farmers. It doesn't hold any data base of pedigrees like the KC does and doesn't require parentage to be verified. therefore, anyone registering a litter with them can just pluck pedigrees out of a hat.