A) With the title of the descent
when it is about a pup resulting parents themselves already
registered definitively. The animal receives a Certificate of Birth
which testifies to its provisional inscription. The final inscription
is attested by the delivery of the pedigree when the animal was
considered to be suited during the examination of confirmation.
B) With initial title
, when the book is " open ". This inscription relates to the adult dogs
of very great quality in the breed and able to improve it, but
resulting unknown parents or not declared with the birth, or declared
and not registered, the formalities not having been filled. These
dogs without known ascent are definitively registered with
the L.O.F. with delivery of the pedigree without indication of
genealogy. For that, it is necessary to make tattoo the animal, get
at the S.C.C. the printed paper form of " Declaration for the
recording with the L.O.F. on a purely initial basis ", to present
this duly supplemented document and the animal to a judge for the examination during a show or
meeting of confirmation and to transmit this request to the club of
breed (which often set up a certain number of criteria). As of
reception of the opinion of the club, it is necessary to transmit the
file to the S.C.C. in a grouped sending including the
request for inscription, the payment following the tariff in force,
the photocopy of tattooing paper. You will receive the pedigree of your dog within two
months.
C) When the book is “closed ", it should be waited until three successive generations are
recorded with the Waiting Book , after confirmation and opinion of the
association of breed. When the population of a breed is not very many, the
association of breed has any interest so that the number of reproducers
in service progresses.
The book will thus remain open, in addition to with the title of the
descent, of course, but also with the inscriptions on a purely initial
basis. In the contrary case, i.e. when the population of a breed is
very important and that one can estimate that a majority of good
subjects is already registered with the L.O.F., one will declare the
book closed, except of course with the title of the descent. But in
order to preserve the essential maintenance of the genetic
polymorphism of a breed, the book is not strictly closed.
Thus there is a Waiting Book to register there the first dog
without known origins presented in confirmation, then its descendants
of the second and third generations. The subjects resulting from the
fourth generation will be able to claim, if they are considered to be
suited to the confirmation, being registered directly with the L.O.F.
with mention of their genealogy. This procedure is not many used, we
will thus not develop it.
D) With the title of the importation
when they are dogs registered with a foreign herd book recognized by
the S.C.C. and found suited by an expert confirmator.
The founders of the “Société Centrale Canine” (S.C.C.) were concerned to equip it with the two
basic tools which require the startup and the
regular control of any policy of animal selection: the organization
of shows and a stud book. The first dog which was registered on
this book was a “Griffon Français” named Marco, March 11, 1885. The Book
of the French Origins called more commonly by its initials (L.O.F.) is
a register in which the pedigree dogs are registered. It is thus
possible to know the origins of an animal, to find its ascendings and
downwards. It authorizes the follow-up of the various indexed lines
and their comparison thanks to the systematic recording of the
official rewards obtained by each animal (that it is in show for
its conformity to the standard of its breed or of use for its qualities
of work). Each year, 150 000 births are recorded there, 50 000
confirmations allow the delivery of pedigrees.
The inscription of the dogs with the L.O.F. can be carried out
according to four different methods: