As for kennel names, ours has a lot of personal reasons (meanings) behind it.

Well, I could be wrong... perhaps that falls under the restricted registration thing. I'll wait for Shigeru to respond since he knows more about this than me.

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@renae

"Is it possible to register puppies to NIPPO that have a sire that is NIPPO registered and a dam that is not?"

Short answer, yes. There are of course stipulations. First, there are three methods of registration: Litter, single, and limited (also known as pre-registration). A stipulation for registrations is that the animal is under 1 year old.

To register a litter (full registration) it must be produced by A)grand sire/dam, and sire/dam of the same NK type/breed, B)dogs registered with a NK only registry, C)a dam with a full NIPPO registration, and a sire from a registry as stipulated in B).

To register a single dog it must be produced by A)grand sire/dam, and sire/dam registered with a NK only registry.

Limited registration if A)grand sire/dam, and sire/dam registered with a registry that is not NK inclusive, B)a NIPPO registered dog is among the dogs in A).

"For the kennel name, does it need to be Japanese name for Nihon ken orgnizations ( like NIPPO, KKA)?"

Kennel and dog names do not have to be in Japanese, but need to be a maximum of 5 characters (kanji/katakana/hiragana). Dog names should also make the dog's sex clear.

I'll add here that you'll have to contact NIPPO and ask them about which registries they'll recognize, and that most of the NK registries reserve the right to refuse name/kennel registrations if they don't believe they are appropriate.

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Well in that scenario you wouldn't be able to get full registration since the AKC dams would be over a year old. You should be able to get limited registration for the litter.

Third generation progeny of limited registration dogs can receive full NIPPO registration.

###################### The correct reply according to NIPPO HQ today seems to be that you may have to go all the way up the line and register the dams with NIPPO. It's a case by case basis since NIPPO doesn't recognize AKC pedigrees.

Yes, you can show on a limited registration.

At the moment there are several registries that NIPPO recognizes, and will give limited registrations to, with only one being overseas (Taiwan or China I believe).

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Any dog over 1 year old cannot be entered into NIPPO's registry.

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What is the difference between full and limited registration? I know with AKC, limited registration means that the dog can't be shown and any litters will not be allowed to register (but the pups can be given limited registration). Though from what is being said about NIPPO, you can still show and breed a dog with limited registration, so I don't understand what the difference would be between limited and full.

@Calia as far as I know there's not too much difference in what you can do with a full and limited registration, though on the limited registration it only shows the last 3 generations as opposed to 5. Also the JKC doesn't accept limited NIPPO registrations, only full registrations, so that's a bit of a sticky point as well.

@renae yes, you need to become a NIPPO member in order to register dogs in your name, and you will also need to register your kennel if you plan to register litters.