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Pedigree number hiding It seems to be some kind of sport amongst breeders to wipe out
the registration number of a cat, when the pedigree is published on
the homepage.
A very strange sport!
When reading such pedigrees, several questions arise:
 | Is there something to hide? |
| Is a registration number a secret number? |
| Has a registration number something to do with data
protection?
And who shall be protected?
The breeder of the cat? For sure not - because under "contacts"
or under "About us"
one can read the owner and breeder of the cat. Of course, to have
its own homepage has something to do with advertising the own
cattery.
The organization, which has issued the pedigree? If so, then
what has to be hidden? The amount of pedigrees an organization
issues per year? |
When asking breeders, why they wipe out the registration number,
one also gets quite strange answers:
| They do not want that everyone knows from their homepage, to
which club they belong, and from which organization they get
their pedigrees. |
| Some think, that they can prohibit that a pedigree might be
falsified or copied to be used once more for another cat by
fraudulent breeders.
This is a quite naive way of protection. |
| Some breeders do not publish the pedigrees on their homepage
in general, but cannot really give any rational or logical
reason.
They sometimes even do not name sire and dam of their litters,
which they advertise on their homepage. |
To say it frankly, I would not buy a cat from such a breeder,
when very important information is not provided, or only parts of
the information are
provided.
Protecting pedigrees from being used fraudulently
The sport to wipe out the registration number is for sure
almost no protection.
One quite effective method is to use an embossing stamp,
which embosses the logo of the club, or the registration number,
into the paper.
This method is not very common, because such an embossing stamp is
quite expensive.
CFA, for example, uses this method.
Such pedigrees cannot be duplicated so easily and fast.
Another quite effective method is to use a hologram on the
pedigree - like it is used in bank notes. Such a hologram shall
not be static, at least it should display two different images.
This is a method, which could easily be used also by the breeders
themselves.
Also such pedigrees cannot be duplicated so easily and fast.
Another effective method is to print the microchip number
of the cat on the pedigree, because a microchip number is unique and
belongs only to one cat.
Very few organizations and clubs write the microchip number on the
pedigree. Why?
When such a pedigree is duplicated to be used fraudulently for
another cat, such a fraud can be detected easily, because the other
cat cannot have a microchip with the same number.
Conclusion
| Only things, which are hidden or kept as secret, provoke
interest to be detected and misused. |
| Transparency is the most efficient way to be taken serious
and to prohibit frauds. |
| To publish or to know the number of pedigrees, which a club
issues per year, does not say anything about the qualities of
cats, of breeders and also of clubs. Such figures may only impress
naive people.
And if some club really wants to keep secret, how many
pedigrees are issued per year, then that club should use
registration numbers, which are randomly generated (like it is
done for example with the TAN). |
© katzenzeitung 11/2011 |
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