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AKC's Albino Plague
America's AKC Sponsored Canine Plague
America's Albino Doberman Breeding Industry
Albino Doberman Pinscher breeding is a cruel modern day plague that continues to painfully torture thousands of innocent animals everyday in the United States. Where are the animal rights people on this issue? Where are our responsible Doberman breeders on this issue? Why are "Puppy's For Sale" websites and local newspapers continuing to advertise for these breeder-bandits? If there ever was a case for American breeders, kennels and dog lovers to get together and unite on common ground, this is it. Doberman albino breeding is much more pervasive in mainstream America than most people realize. If someone were exclusively breeding sick human beings who were all diseased with diabetes or cancer, wouldn't you think they should be stopped and fined or imprisoned? Well, this is what we have with the Z factor Doberman. These poor sick Dobermans and their pups are the product of bad breeding practices. And unscrupulous breeders are still breeding and selling these genetically sick pups as fancy white Dobermans when in fact there is no such animal. The Doberman Pinscher's Club of America does not acknowledge a white Doberman, except for albinos. Beautiful as puppies but as they grow in age they experience hair loss, painful skin disease and worsening eye sight. The typical albino breeder will see their pup's eyes constantly squinting in pain but they somehow never feel that pain of their squinting little puppy litters. These pups will eventually go blind if kept in the sunlight and not indoors. As vet bills pile up many of these dogs waste away and die in backyards without attention or care.
These white Doberman breeders are nonconformists who irresponsibly sell their sick dogs to a naive general public on a vast national scale for $200, $300 or as much as they can get. It's all about the money no matter what else these breeders tell you. Albino breeders are either in denial or they are delusional or they just damn don't care. These strange people range from the seemingly educated who live in their own fantasy world of, "if I could just breed two more generations, I'll have created the perfect healthy white Doberman", to the dumb-ass-hillbilly who wouldn't know a well bred Doberman Pinscher if one walked up behind him and bit him on the ass!
Z Factored Dobermans
Not all Z factored Dobermans are white or "cream" or "golden" as these breeders may call them, and most albino carriers look like totally normal Dobermans, but all Z Factors will eventually throw a white pup or white litter. The Doberman Pinscher Club of America (DPCA) asks that these Z Factors be spay or neutered. If you own one, please keep him indoors, love him, pamper him and protect them but please spay or neuter them. By the way, not all of these albinos and Z Factor carriers have a WZ prefix on their AKC registration number. Some may have the prefixes WS, WE, WF, WP, etc and the only possible way we have to check the status of a Doberman from the street is to check his pedigree against the (no return outside link): Z LIST. If you are buying a new Doberman puppy locally off the street, please check his pedigree with the Z LIST before you make the purchase. (You may follow the Z links here or the Z List can be found on the DPCA website.) His albino ancestors, if they exist, will certainly be listed there. You may be saving yourself a big vet expense and maybe saving yourself a lot of personal grief by checking this list before you buy. A Doberman puppy without registration papers in America today will almost always mean albino or albino carrier. The introduction of the modern European Doberman Pinscher in America may very well help us re-establish a new universal recognition of what the Doberman Standard is or should be here. Trying to be knowledgeable of Doberman pedigrees is a must in today's Doberman Pinscher world and even if the Z list checks out fine I'm still not breeding to a blue or a fawn. Skin disease anyone? I'm a purist. Let's keep the breed pure Black & Rust or pure Red & Rust! Brown instead of red as the Europeans see it.
In the past 30 years irresponsible breeders have bastardized the American Doberman Pinscher causing strange colors, albinos and the loss of their working dog DNA!
Simply put, for all the years of giving albino Doberman breeders their official AKC registration papers, the AKC has single handedly ruined the American Doberman Pinscher forever.
Sadly, the reality to this is that the AKC still registers albino Dobermans. The AKC will register any dog of the same breed parents who are already registered with the AKC so long as the AKC can get their fee. The spread of this painful illness to hundreds of new albino litters each year seems to not bother the AKC, just give the AKC their money because they don't care about the rest of it! Again: The AKC could care less if these sick dogs are being bred and sold because the AKC is only paying attention to collecting their money. It's all about the money and not the breed. So what are we supposed to do with that? This is insane. When the American Kennel Club registers an albino Doberman they are promoting the sale of painfully ill animals, many who hurt everyday and this is costing the naive albino buyer-owner a bundle in vet bills, not to mention making it possible for outlaw albino breeders to be official AKC breeders. It's a frustrating situation when albino breeders continue to make money selling genetically sick animals with the benefit of being a bona fide AKC breeder. These irresponsible breeders are the reason we have albino Dobermans in the first place. Also these type of breeders are absolutely responsible for the total devastation of the American Dobermans' loss of working dog DNA. The working dog aspect of the American Doberman is all but gone. This is why European Dobermans are our only avenue to save the breed in the USA now.
If the European Doberman is to now take the American Doberman's place here then we need to breed only black & rust and red & rust Doberman Pinschers with no other exceptions for color and we need to stop the AKC from registering albinos. Why would anybody who owns an expensive quality Doberman or Doberman kennel want to continue a relationship with any kennel club where bad genetics are officially allowed to be spread to healthy animals. I can tell you they will not. Doberman owner's may have to move away from the AKC one day just to protect the good health of their pups from a neglectful un-caring system of money grabbers.
This matter will not go away until either the AKC changes it's policy or the European Doberman Pinscher has been forever ruined just like it's American cousin.
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