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LOF N.BREED.X or LOF N.BREED.X/Y
LOF is the name of the French Studbook : Livre des Origines Français
N is the number of the FCI group the breed belongs to.
X and Y are two numbers.
X means that the dog is the Xth dog of the breed, which is registered in France.
Y means that the dog is the Yth male or the Yth bitch who has succeeded the exam for breeding, so there is two same Y
in the breed, one for the males, the other for the females.
A dog can take the exam for breeding after he's 12 months, possibly 15 months for some breeds, so the pups are
registered with only one number, X. They must be tattooed or microshiped before being registered, so they are
generally registered after 2 months. Their both parents must have succeeded the exam for breeding (so they are
registered with X and Y) before the mating. If one of the parents hasn't succeeded the exam for breeding, the pups
aren't registered in the French studbook as dogs born in France (they can be registered as dogs without registered
parents, but this only when they take and succeed the exam for breeding, so they are no more pups).
In the case of a foreign sire, the French exam for breeding isn't required.
The breed name is often left out, and the registration number is generally written : LOF X or LOF X/Y
(See an example below)
sides of an example of the
paper given for a
registered pup.
make you think that a dog who is registered in France could lose some day his registration, if this registration is only
"temporary". In fact, there's no sense to use the word "temporary" ("provisoire" in French) : for in reality, when a dog is
registered in the French studbook, he can never lose this registration ; when a X number is given to a dog, this dog will
always keep this X number, and he will always be registered with this number, and no other dog in the same breed will
never get this X number.
A lot of dogs don't take the exam for breeding, sometimes because of eliminating defects, but in most cases, the reason
is simply that the owner isn't interested by the exam for breeding, or they can die before 12 months or they can be
exported too. These numerous dogs will never got a Y number, but they CAN'T lose their X number and their registration
in the French studbook !
So when he is more than 12 months old (15 months for some breeds, generally giant ones), any dog who has been
registered in the French studbook as a pup (so he is registered with only X) can take the exam for breeding. This exam
can be associated to a normal dogshow, a club dogshow, or not, some exams for breeding are scheduled for many
breeds at the same time. A dogshow judge decides if the dog can be used for breeding or not. He writes this on one of
the side of the paper (right above), and on another paper.
Then the owner has to send theses papers to the French Dogorganization, and a few months after, he will receive the
new paper : an example can be seen below. This paper is called "pedigree", that means that the first paper, given for
the pups, isn't considered as a "pedigree", this is the meaning of the word "temporary". If the pup must be exported, he
receives an export-pedigree, but if he stays in France, he receives a paper which isn't a pedigree ! A dog must be
registered in a studbook (French one or another) to be accepted in most sport competitions and in dogshows, but the
"pup paper" (called in France : "Certificat de naissance") is enough, the pedigree isn't required at all : although the "pup
paper" isn't a "pedigree", it's used as if it was !
succeeded the exam for
breeding, the owner
receives the "pedigree"
LOF : this dog is registered in the French studbook.
1 : the breed of this dog belongs to the 1st group (FCI)
B.CROA : this dog is a Croatian Sheepdog (in French : Berger Croate or Berger de Croatie)
7 : this dog is the 7th Croatian Sheepdog who is registered in France.
6 : this dog is either the 6th male or the 6th bitch who has succeeded the exam for breeding.
turned from Cikla Cerisa to Cikla Certisa ; the reason is that the Dogorganization made an error while making the first
paper, for the pups : of course I wrote them to tell this, but they didn't corrected it for the A-litter (the error was first in my
V-litter papers), but fortunately they corrected when I told them once again while sending the papers after the exam for
breeding. Unluckily, errors are often (for the time being, I didn't succeed to get one litter without any error in the papers
!), but, what is worse, the French Dogorganizaion people don't always correct when they are told about an error, even
several times, and an error can be found again in the offspring ; so, although the papers that the Dogorganization
sends are official papers, they are not reliable, and if a difference can be found between one of their papers and the
pedigrees I publish in my site, the right ones are mine.
sometimes only a normal pedigree of the foreigner Dogorganization ; the dog must succeed the exam for breeding to be
registered in France ; so he can't be registered before he's 12 months (possibly 15 months), and consequently he's
registered with both X and Y numbers (an imported dog can't be registered with only 1 number, X). The Dogorganization
don't produce another paper, but writes the registration number on the back side of the foreigner pedigree : an example
can be seen below.
Updated : 11/07/09
Isabelle Coquinot