"Purple Ribbon Bred" 8-/

[MrsLouisianaHogDog]

Okay so I gotta just throw a lil ol' rant out here, lol, forgive me. I've been seeing it for the longest, but it seems to be even more prominent lately.....people advertising pups, specifically placing emphasis on UKC dogs that are "PURPLE RIBBON BRED." Having that "PR" before the dogs name is NOT anything special, hate to break it to those folks. All the PR means is that at least six straight generations back on said dog have been DNA profiled. Which is spiffy and all, but it's certainly NOT something super special. I see it as a selling point ALOT...." UKC registered whateverthehell PURPLE RIBBON BRED!! " I'll go ahead and throw in a disclaimer in case anyone gets offended by what I've just said. I am in no way targeting or referring to any one specific person here, lol. So please no one take offense. I just had to throw it out there. Plus, if your big selling point is that the pups have PR before their name.....well.....

*Hops down from the soap box now and skips away*

[TexasHogDogs]

Yup its all just a big wad of boo whoo poop poooooooooooo.  Booo who who .

[halfbreed]

actually it has nothing to do with DNA it is just that 6 generations bfore that dog has been registered  . my leopard hound gyp is not pr bred because some of her ancestors where not ukc bred dogs .

[halfbreed]

  that should have read registered with the ukc  on the pr dogs  .

[Big Joe]

Makes me sick, especially when it has gotti line or razors edge next to it

[TheRednose]

Makes me sick, especially when it has gotti line or razors edge next to it

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[Easttex91]

It means a lot on those gator mouf pits lol

[Hitemhard]

It means a lot on those gator mouf pits lol

You mix that gator mouf with some of that tiger stripe and you got something there! Haha

    or that blue nose with that ghost pit, haha.

[Easttex91]

It means a lot on those gator mouf pits lol

You mix that gator mouf with some of that tiger stripe and you got something there! Haha

    or that blue nose with that ghost pit, haha.

Long as theyre all gotti lol

[Corey]

actually it has nothing to do with DNA it is just that 6 generations bfore that dog has been registered  . my leopard hound gyp is not pr bred because some of her ancestors where not ukc bred dogs .

You'd have to really stack em up to get 6 gen. since 2008. I know they're around but darn that's quick.

[halfbreed]

   were just talking about a dog being purple ribbon bred  not being a pure line within a breed .  the pr in front of a dogs name just meens that 6 generation of that dogs sire and dame were ukc registered dogs period it has nothing to do with a dog being from a pure line of dogs . there could be several different lines of registered dogs in the dogs in question ,  BUT  they were all ukc registered at the time of breeding ,
   
      ya'll got it  ?

[LSKTX]

A dog makes it's papers, the papers don't make the dog.

[MrsLouisianaHogDog]

Well hell, they had to have changed it not too long ago because I specifically remember a few years back that it had to do with DNA profiling. But here's what they say now.....

What does “Purple Ribbon” mean?

"Purple Ribbon" is a distinction UKC gives to a dog if all 14 ancestors within a dog's three generation pedigree (parents, grandparents, great grandparents) are each registered with United Kennel Club.

Purple Ribbon is indicated by the letters “PR” at the beginning of a dog’s name and also by a comma (,) instead of a dash (-) within the dog’s UKC number.

In order to receive a complete Seven Generation pedigree (showing 254 ancestors), the dog’s parents must both be registered as Purple Ribbon. A Six Generation pedigree for the dog that was not produced by Purple Ribbon parents may have some “Open” entries depending on the availability of pedigree information on record with UKC.

UKC will automatically add the letters 'PR' to the beginning of the dog's registered name and the 'PR' will not count toward the 30 characters and spaces limitation for the allowable length of the dog's registered name.

Taken from: http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/WebPages/Registration/FAQsPurple

[Big Joe]

For an example my mothers dog,  PR rzrs edge The Great Bambino

[Americanlegendz]

The Great Hambino in your case. Lol  I was just watching that movie (The Sandlot) with my kids yesterday and read your post and thought maybe appropiate for your dog since you hunt hog with it.  Ha 

[Big Joe]

Haha that dog couldn't catch a cold my friend

[halfbreed]

   naw mrs la. that is the way it has been since my first registered dog back in the 70's . all that does is tell a person ukc has had the pedigree info for that many gens. now they are talking about opening up the single regs, on the bulldogs and the offspring from those dogs will not be pr. bred . I think what you are thinking on is the title   DNAP  which means the dna of the dog is recorded and stored with the ukc for further verification of offspring out of a set of parents if there is a question about breeding .

[t crump]

First off if it does not have a PR on the papers UKC will not register it.

[MrsLouisianaHogDog]

First off if it does not have a PR on the papers UKC will not register it.

Hey hey now, not ALL UKC dogs are "PR Bred." Just foolin. Wasn't tryina get anybody's panties in a wad. Seriously though, I've looked over various dogs' ULK paperwork, and not all of them had PR before their names. Unless that's something they just implemented? Who knows. My bulldogs are ADBA and my Catahoulas (the registered ones) are NALC so I don't use UKC for anything anyway. My reference originally was more towards people labeling pups for sale as "PR BRED" as if it were something extra special or something.

[AW]

Sometimes in the coonhound world when they say PR bred there just saying the parents don't have any titles like NiteCH or CH or anything else.