Why does a breed club matter to hunters?

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This is one of those questions that would be answered slightly differently by 10 different people. My view is more to what a breed club isn’t! A breed club is not an organization that only hunts with a specific hunting breed! It is not an organization that has competitions/ field trials / tests and then does not use these results towards breeding. It is not an organization that does not have specific strict testing and breeding regulations.

Any breed club that I know has only one purpose...the advancement of a hunting breed through testing. Dogs that pass these hunting tests prove they have measure up to the hunting standard.  Measurements such as x-rays proving free of joint disorders and entering a breed show which measures each individual against a breed standard must also be preformed. Only after all this criteria is met can a dog be certified for breeding. This certifying for breeding stamp placed on a dog’s Ahnentafel (pedigree) tells the hunter exactly what he/she is getting. In order for a pup to have an Ahnentafel from a breed club means that every ancestor of that pup all had to have been certified for breeding. No Exceptions! 

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