Make pedigree certificates mandatory

Currently, pet shop owners can mention to customers that the puppies or kittens they are selling are pedigrees, and in doing so, increase the price of these animals, which may not actually be pedigrees.

The customers may believe such declarations, however, and buy these puppies or kittens. They can only know whether or not their pet is a pure breed when it grows older and the features of its breed become more distinct.

Pedigree certification should be made compulsory so that customers willing to shell out for a certain pure-bred animal they want will not be in for a shock should their pet grow up to be one they did not expect.

If a pet shop raises the prices of pedigrees, this can then include the cost of certification.

In this way, we protect customers from errant sellers who claim that the pets they sell are pedigrees, and protect animals that are bought from being rejected by their owners when they grow to have characteristics that differ from their “pedigree”.