Our registers

The MDBA aims to enable breeders to use our registries as a tool to truly improve breeds and not just document ancestry. By providing this service, the MDBA allows purebred breeders to continue improving the health and welfare of their breeds while providing them with the security of a reliable and reputable service to maintain their records.

We believe that if we are to prevent dogs’ suffering and stop the current trend toward overregulating dog breeders, which negatively impacts the future of our breeds and the rights of all dog owners, it is time to reassess and challenge traditional stud book registry protocols in purebred dog breeding.

This re-assessment ensures we move into the future with only the very best and healthiest purebred canines. It also ensures that those who use the MDBA registries have a greater choice in which dogs to use for breeding purposes and access to a much wider gene pool.

A dog can be classified as eligible for registration in one of 6 registries

• General Stud Registry
• Foundation Registry
• Extension Registry
• Intermediate Registry
• Preservation Registry

For a full explanation of our Registers and Registry process please see our rules and policies

General Stud Registry

The purpose of the General Stud registry is to accurately document and keep records of all MDBA-recognised purebred breeds. It records health and temperament issues, good and bad, and any recognised awards the dogs have attained. Pure-breed dogs with verifiable pedigrees that are born anywhere in the world are able to be accepted into this registry.

Foundation Registry.

The Foundation Registry is for new breeds that are in an early developmental stage and for which record keeping is vital to the breed’s history and development. Dogs from the Foundation Registry cannot progress to the General Stud registry unless they are first approved for the Intermediate registry.

Intermediate Registry

The purpose of the Intermediate Registry is to provide a transitional registry as a breed advances on its journey toward breed recognition. This registry identifies dogs that meet the advanced development criteria for qualification into the final phase before acceptance of the breed as a pure breed and entry into the General Studbook. The registry is also used as a step towards admission to the General Stud Registry for dogs moving from the Preservation Registry.

Extension Registry

The purpose of the Extension Registry is to provide the ability for a dog identified as a purebred but does not have pedigree evidence to be registered in the General Std Registry. This ensures that only dogs that have suitable pedigree evidence [via MDBA criteria] are able to have entry into the general stud book of an established purebred dog breed. No dog nor its progeny is able to gain entry to the General Stud registry without approval using the MDBA criteria.

Preservation Registry

The purpose of the Preservation Registry is to document and keep records of dogs which are included in a preservation breeding program. A preservation breeding programme is a planned mating to achieve an approved goal. No dog can progress to General Stud registry without first being approved for inclusion into the Intermediate Registry.