Talk:Mixed Breed Dog Clubs of America
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[edit] Proposed deletion removed
Removing this flag: {{dated prod|concern = Non-notable club. No references listed (besides their web site, which doesn't count), and I couldn't find anything online. (As an aside, I'm still not sure what the meaning is of a [[breed registry]] of animals which can't breed, and whose parentage isn't known.)|month = February|day = 29|year = 2008|time = 09:29|timestamp = 20080229092927}} <!-- Do not use the "dated prod" template directly; the above line is generated by "subst:prod|reason" -->
because:
- Mixed Breed Dog Clubs of America is a quite wide-spread organization. Events sanctioned by it are held all over the country. It's almost the only venue in which non-AKC breeds can earn obedience, conformation, and rally-o titles. The MBDCA is the parent organization--note the "Clubs" in the name-- but a lot of its members are within its subsidiaries, such as Mixed Breed Dog Club of California (MBDCCA or MBDCofCA), Mixed Breed Dog Club of New York, etc. I'll add a note to the article that they're all interrelated. When I do a search for "Mixed Breed Dog Club", I get almost 9,000 hits. I get 2300 hits for "Mixed Breed Dog Clubs of America," so not sure what the search was actually done on.
- It's not a breed registry in terms of who the parents are for breeding--AKC does a fine job of that, sometimes; it's a club in which dogs that the AKC doesn't recognize--which are the majority in this country--can compete in events from which they would otherwise be excluded. Elf | Talk 00:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I'd searched "Mixed Breed Dog Clubs of America" and gotten ~2000 hits, of which the first five were all MBDCA's own web site and Wikipedia. The main part I hadn't realized was that this was an umbrella organization - I'd been looking for evidence of events held directly by MBDCA, which weren't showing up. Zetawoof(ΞΆ) 02:46, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
