registration

It was the intention of the founders of the breed that the Tamaskan Dog Register be established to bring together and record our dogs’ ancestors, offspring and health records with a central world database.

The Tamaskan Dog Register is run by a Committee, all of its members having been long standing breeders and being known in the dog world for breeding and/or showing other breeds. Each affiliated club has a member who serves on the TDR committee as an ambassador for their country, thereby connecting everyone and letting each club, in each country, have a say in the running of the Register.

Breeders worldwide submit their litter registrations to the Tamaskan Dog Register. The Register then records them and verifies all entries. Owners and breeders can confidently view the registrations and pedigrees they have been given by the TDR as being true to the Register's knowledge, this can also be backed up with the TDR's new DNA profiling scheme.

By registering litters with a central register, breeders show they are open and honest about their breeding history and willing to share all information, including their breeding dogs’ hip and eye test results. The new puppy registration documents now also display both parents hip scores.

By putting breeding history on record with the TDR, future Tamaskan owners & breeders will be able to look back through the records and see what dogs were the foundation of the breed. In years to come, when the Tamaskan is finally recognised, only those dogs on the central register (TDR) will be recorded by the kennel club.

We are a Register and not a society. Therefore we do not have members - we only keep records.

As a Register, we do have breeding rules that we expect our registered breeders to abide by. For more details click HERE. If you should you become a registered breeder, you will also be held by a strict breeder’s contract.

You may have come across another website called 'The Tamaskan Club of America' which claims to register Tamaskan in the USA and insinuates affiliation with the TDR. This website is a fake, the owner of the website uses this club to fake registration of his cross-bred Tamaskan puppies. None of the puppies bred by Rightpuppy kennels are DNA profiled or follow the rules and regulations of the TDR and will never be recognised by any kennel club. We have lawyers working to have this website removed but in the mean time please check with the TDR or our affiliated US club, The National Tamaskan Club of America (NTCA) for registered breeders.

Kennel Names help form part of each dog’s name ie. the kennel name 'Tamtastic' would then follow with the dogs own name – Tamtastic Turnip. In this way people will know exactly which kennel bred each Tamaskan.

Also breeders who then purchase these puppies may add their own Kennel Name at the end ie. Tamtastic Turnip at Greenbay. This way everyone knows Tamtastic kennel bred the dog and Greenbay kennel owns the dog.

Dogs you see in pedigree's without a kennel name in front or behind are either not Tamaskan or are the Foundation Stock of the Tamaskan Breed.

Only the owner of a kennel name can register puppies using that kennel name, registration of a kennel name is forever, no one can use it at a later date and you cannot change it when you get bored.

Registration of a kennel name with the Tamaskan Dog Register makes it usable only for Tamaskan Dogs and no other breed unless you register that kennel name with your countries kennel club also (which we encourage people to do)

Once you have chosen your kennel name you must EMAIL it to the register along with personal details and information of all dogs you own

Once your kennel name has been checked (to make sure it is not the same or too similar to any others registered) You will then receive a Breeders Contract which must be signed and returned before you are truly registered, you will then receive your breeders certificate

Once your contract has been received you will be sent email confirmation and you will be able to register litters of Tamaskan. This process is free but a charge is given for the registering of the litter which depends on the litter size.

Everyone should make sure that their puppies come from registered breeders. All honest breeders register with us so if your breeder is not registered you must ask yourself 'why not?'. For more information on if your breeder is genuine please click HERE

When purchasing your Tamaskan puppy you should receive from your breeder a Tamaskan Dog Register Puppy Registration Certificate giving details of puppies registered name, parents, date of birth, colour and sex etc and with the Tamaskan Dog Register logo (be aware some unscrupulous breeders may forge registration certificates click HERE for more information about finding out if a breeder is genuine). Your breeder should also supply you with at least a three generation pedigree (family tree) and a diet sheet. Each dog’s registration is given a number which helps us catalogue the dogs better. Also from July 1st 2007 puppies going to breeding homes should also be supplied with a copy of the parents DNA testing analysis.

Your registration may or may not have breeding restrictions with it. It is a breeders responsibility to inform you about these restrictions and why they have been placed on your certificate.

Restrictions are generally placed on certificates if the puppy is not good enough for breeding or because the breeder requests a specific health test to take place (such as elbow scoring or eye testing) before the dog is bred from. If they have been placed on your certificate because your puppy is not suitable for breeding then they may never be removed.

Once you have your puppy registration certificate you are asked to fill in your personal details and give relevant payment and send it to The Tamaskan Dog Register (address is on the certificate). These funds help to pay for printing, postage and admin charges. The Tamaskan Dog Register is a non profit organization.

You will then receive your Change of Ownership Registration Certificate which you should give to new owners should your puppy ever be sold or given away to someone whose name is not on the certificate. All your personal details should be on the certificate as well as all your puppies details. Along with your registration certificate you should receive a membership form for the Tamaskan Club that is nearest to you.