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The only breeders in the U.S. required to register with the USDA are commercial breeders who supply pet shops with puppies.
Generally speaking - this translates to - large or huge operations who keep crated dogs breeding during every season with little or no reguard to genetic health issues or anything else.
You may well have a dog that lives it's life without any health issues. This is not uncommon, if everybody got sick puppies from pet shops, they would go out of business in short order.
The real problem with pet shop puppies is - the parents. Rarely vetted and fed really bad food, they live their lives in cages, constantly breeding without ever seeing anything other then the dogs around them and never touching their feet to grass.
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Sandi
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