As you pointed out the papers for dogs are to prove bloodlines and pure breeds. With premier locality boas, this does exist.

Founder stock comes with CITES from the country of origin, and then there are reciepts and papers each breeder through the lineage provides for their customers, so when someone breeds their animals, they can say they have X from Y, and A from B.

The Chondro Coalition has done a fairly good job of this in their captive gtp lines, this was just a small group of breeders. Nothing regulates markets, but papers do follow bloodlines. All of my locale specific and pure subspecies have papers and can be traced to their founding stock, fairly well if not perfectly.

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