None of those things cost money... They only cost money based on your choice. You did not have to buy a dog cross country. You act like they are the only game in town. Corsos are VERY popular now.
You are grown and well written. You seem to be very persistent and stubborn (no offense) too. So nobody made you do anything. Its not victim blaming. Especially when you bring it up asking questions.
Its not a growing list either. Most of it is common sense.
Again instead of just recognizing those tips you want to demonize everything because you're scorned.
Thats not fair, objective, or factual. There is a difference in forming your opinion from the facts of the experience vs the emotion of the experience.
Plus this is still just one side of the story. When I hear things like
"AKC has 0 value"
"All breeders are puppy mills"
"Registries are a scam but I like the ICCF"
"It doesn't matter what anyone says Its still all bad"
"I resent this victim-blaming to defend corrupt breeders." When all April did was try and help by offering sympathy and info.
All this makes me want to hear the other side of the story too.
Actually, the ICCF that I referred to is the club not the registry. Although someone at the registry did put me in touch with the club.
There is only 1 breeder with 6 hours drive of my house and she didn’t have anything available.
As for hearing the other side of the story you don’t have to, you’re already saying all the things that she would say to defend her unethical actions.
My first experience with papered animals was more than 40 years ago with cows on my parents small dairy farm. They were so unhealthy that my parents decided to get rid of them and only raise cross bred animals which were healthier, produced more milk and meat. We sold an incredibly inferior cow to another farmer who wanted the papers—we are fairly certain that those papers were put with a different animal so he could get more for her healthy, but not purebred, offspring.
As a result I NEVER even considered buying a “purebred “ dog because I believed them to be inferior and often fraudulent. That is until we got Xena from a rescue group. They told us that she had papers and because of her we fell in love with the breed so much that I re-examined my bias and we bought Constantine from a small breeder who was trying to get established. He has since gone out of business. Constantine is a phenomenal guard/farm dog but is not temperamentally suited to live in the city. So when Xena was poisoned because she was preventing a predator who worked at her apartment complex from attacking her, we needed something old enough to be a deterrent but young enough for Constantine to accept.
We were in a difficult situation and a disreputable breeder made it worse. The AKC not only condones the actions of this breeder, it endorses them as a Breeder of Merit. Your defense of the actions of both the AKC and the condemnation of people who get taken advantage of by unethical breeders as being the ones primarily at fault because they didn’t do enough research about a breeder lauded by the most prestigious entity in the industry make me believe that my initial predjudice against purebred dogs was spot on. At least breeders in the US. Xena was probably an import because her tail was not docked. Ironically, we chose a US breeder over one in Spain because we thought we were less likely to get cheated and would have more redress if we did. With 20/20 hindsight I wish we had imported the Spanish dog. It could not have been a worse experience.
The reason that I prefer the ICCF is that they do not hesitate to blame unethical breeders or call them out for making ALL breeders look bad. If my only interaction with the CC community were with people on this forum, I would lament the fact that these magnificent animals had fallen under the control of the worst elements of humanity and NEVER consider buying a dog again.
Fortunately, I have also encountered people in the CC community who put the blame where it belongs and try to spread the word so that others won’t get cheated instead of blaming the victim and defending the bad parts of the system that protects them.
I am cautiously optimistic that IF I ever buy another Corso, it will be a quality dog because it will be from one of the breeders who work to eliminate unethical business/ breeding and acknowledges the shortcomings on the ALC not a breeder who defends them and blames the people who got cheated.