The CKC is a kennel club mostly in Europe that is the same as the AKC to America. There are over 100 pure breeds of dog in the world, the AKC recognizes 160, the CKC recognizes 300+. The CKC is not a big joke as AKC enthusiests would say, it is a reputable kennel club. Both clubs recognize and certify puppy mills. The CKC does recognize designer breeds and hybrids. If both parents were quality purebreds, you should have a certificate for you hybrid that says so, only the AKC doesn't do that. You still cannot show your hybrid or designer dog. This is a good idea beacuse all breeds start out as mixes and even the oldest most recognizable AKC breeds don't have a sure origin because nobody bothered documenting the breeds used. Today, many dog enthusiasts feel that we have enough pure breeds, so they don't like it when people start crossing breeds to get something else. Tough crap, what if they stopped crossing breeds before they got to that person's pure breed. If they stopped in 1800, we wouldn't have a lot of those pure breeds, say goodbye to the Doberman. Even if they stopped in 1900 we wouldn't have breeds like the Boxer. So why should we stop in 2000? (we wouldn't recognize the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling retriever if we stopped in 2000) This is the typical reason people don't like the CKC, because they are willing to keep documenting mixes of breeds so that we have an origin for whatever pure breeds may come out in the end if any. I obviously like the CKC better. I don't understand how the AKC can recognize puppy mills and then turn around and not recognize ancient pure breeds like the Akbash or the Xolo (just to name a few), and then refuse to give documentation when two quality purebreds are mixed together to produce a good quality hybrid that will make a great companion. Doesn't make sense to me.