Pedigree means a record that traces the lineage of the dog 4generations backward and can be confirmed online. If there's a disorder in the lineage and the lineage is still recorded it is still a pedigree. If there's a pollution and it's still recorded it's still a pedigree, so yes pedigree doesn't guarantee quality. But one, it guarantees a reliable history of the dogs parents and the details of this parents can be checked. Two when looking for pedigree go for those with a reputable lineage. Pedigree can confirm the purity of a bloodline. We often mistake pedigree to mean pure bloodline. No it's just a confirmation.. Finally that bloodline may even be pure and unadulterated but that bloodline itself may not be superb, may not carry the features we desire in a dog... On the other hand it's very possible to find non pedigree dogs with pure bloodlines, amazing physique and for a healthy price too.. But that guarantee, that historical information that pedigree gives is a value that Nigerians are yet to appreciate.. An amazing healthy looking buoyant and strong dog may have an history that you may not know about.. It may not show in your dam and sir it may not show in your pups yet....... This is very essential. In humans we take certain genes of our parents. When we see certain features or disabilities that are not in our parents we look to our grandparents, but that's where it ends.. For dogs they can take bad and good features from even their fourth generation, hence an important need for pedigree...Imperial kennels.

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Pedigree means a record that traces the lineage of the dog 4generations backward and can be confirmed online. If there's a disorder in the lineage and the lineage is still recorded it is still a pedigree. If there's a pollution and it's still recorded it's still a pedigree, so yes pedigree doesn't guarantee quality. But one, it guarantees a reliable history of the dogs parents and the details of this parents can be checked. Two when looking for pedigree go for those with a reputable lineage. Pedigree can confirm the purity of a bloodline. We often mistake pedigree to mean pure bloodline. No it's just a confirmation.. Finally that bloodline may even be pure and unadulterated but that bloodline itself may not be superb, may not carry the features we desire in a dog... On the other hand it's very possible to find non pedigree dogs with pure bloodlines, amazing physique and for a healthy price too.. But that guarantee, that historical information that pedigree gives is a value that Nigerians are yet to appreciate.. An amazing healthy looking buoyant and strong dog may have an history that you may not know about.. It may not show in your dam and sir it may not show in your pups yet....... This is very essential. In humans we take certain genes of our parents. When we see certain features or disabilities that are not in our parents we look to our grandparents, but that's where it ends.. For dogs they can take bad and good features from even their fourth generation, hence an important need for pedigree...Imperial kennels.

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