Note that I knoe what a AKC pedigree is for purebreed dogs, this isn’t it.
I’ve seen a few online peeps in the USA talking about their dog’s birth certificate 
and what last name their dog has(some hyphenate if they are a couple :rolleyes:)then I saw this:
Are there really vets out in the USA refusing to treat dogs without these made up certificates? LOL!
PS I like dogs, but this is pretentious nonsense .
You never know if your dog might someday become President.
It’s not just dogs - two of my three birds have “hatch certificates”. Not as pretentious as some of the dog stuff (no hyphenated names, for example) they nonetheless provide helpful information such as the true age of the critter, the exact species, and information on the parents (certain variations/subspecies of parrots can be more prone to some illnesses and conditions). The vet will still treat an animal without such information, but having that information can be useful.
What gets ridiculous is when people make it into more than it actually is, a part of an animal’s medical history and no more.
Where’s his long form?
I doubt that there are vets who will refuse to treat a dog without a birth certificate. I don’t doubt that there are people who are not very smart and think that AKC (or other registry) papers are a ‘birth certificate’. I also suspect that there are puppy millers and back-yard breeders who are more than willing to provide official looking paperwork for the puppies they breed that makes the buyers happy, but is not issued by any recognized registry.
I’m pretty sure no one is talking about AKC papers and are instead referring to “fake” official looking paperwork.
I must admit, a birth certificate or equivalent on my assorted critters would have been nice. At least I’d have an idea of how old they really are/were. Our Bengal cat was about 3 when we adopted him and that was about 5 years ago… I think… The other cat was about a year old when we got her, and I think she’s about 3 now… I think…
I know it’s not a huge deal, but when the vet asks “How old is Taz?” I feel like a clueless owner when I say “I think he’s about 8.” OK, it’s not a huge deal, but it’s still something I’d like to know.
And his transcripts from Obedience School.
Our vet’s documents do have a “last name” on the files, but it’s our name because we are the clients, not the cats (well, my husband’s… his is cooler and I don’t really care!). I know my sister’s animals are listed as hyphenated names, but that’s just their preference.
There are no birth certificates, though. We just randomly assigned birthdays for fun. As a vet, my sister says that it really doesn’t matter “exactly” how old an animal is; treatments are kind of the same either way. An old cat is an old cat, whether he’s 12 or 16 or 23.
Nearest I can figure, my oldest cat is 19. So inconsiderate of her mama to birth her in a woodpile behind a friend’s home and then skip town and abandon her kids. And the next oldest cat was kidnapped from its mama and abandoned in a box in the bathroom of a gas station. And the youngest cat? Well, I’d love to see who his mama named as daddy on a birth certificate, because I’d swear it was a canine. As it was, she was so ashamed of that baby she kicked him out when he was only a few weeks old.
My vet would laugh at a dog birth certificate and then use it to wipe pig shit off his boots. He once said he likes it when we come in because we have such a motley variety of critters, all of uncertain ancestry.
Just tell the vet something like “He was full grown when we got him from the shelter X years ago.”
Yesterday I made my fiance go to Target and pick up our dog’s prescription. He didn’t realize he had to ask for, and I am totally serious here, “Captain (Lastname)”. Our eight year old, who’s on Prozac.
My dogs records have my last name attached , and it makes perfect sense to me. When John Wilson calls the vet to ask something about his dog, it’s easier to grab Cocoa Wilson’s file than to wonder which of the ten patients named Cocoa he’s talking about.
There doesn’t seem to be any reason to believe that vets care about pet birth certificates. That’s just one person on yahoo asking a ridiculous question who was told “no” by everyone who answered.
Pretty sure our pets’ records at the vet’s are all in a file under Mr. S’s name. They don’t have our surname, but Mr. S.s full name is on each record. That seems pretty logical to me.
The vet gave my cats my last name without asking.
When my mom named her current dog, Bowser, she decided to officially call him “Arfer T. Bowser” (the T. stands for “The”, of course). But on all the paperwork from the vet, he’s “Bowser <lastname>”. I guess the vet didn’t realize that Bowser is already a last name.
He doesn’t have a birth certificate, though. He was a pound puppy. Heck, I don’t think a date of birth was ever known for any of our pets-- The cats were mostly strays who adopted us.
A very few particles already have.
Hell you would think the records and billing and all would be under the owner’s name, pretty sure Cocoa isn’t calling in to the office 