I don't know how exactly to vote, but my thoughts are very similar to yours. However, I could make a strong argument that we should stick with official pedigrees b/c they are official. If a breeder is "caught" or "comes clean" those are both, potentially, unreliable sources of info. We don't know if that person was lying intentionally or unintentionally and both can happen. There are those who "come clean" for gain after knowing there is a gain. If a person is "caught" then they are liar and I can't believe ANYTHING they say, so how can I comfortably take their "caught in the act" words as truth when I know they are a known liar.

I think I would go with official pedigrees and then those of use who understand "type" or "mountain of facts and hard evidence" can believe what we want and use that as our guide in what we do with our own dogs. Those who don't know or understand these things can either learn the hard way, go their own way, or simply make up their own mind the way they want.

This is a good topic here. Did you get this idea from Don Mayfield?..............I'm just kidding.