You got to think about a few things. Papers aren't necessarily good or bad. They can in fact be great, or they can be worthless. Papers sometimes mean that somebody cared enough about the dogs to carefully register them and keep their lineage so they could learn about what crosses produce what dogs. That is a very good benefit, and sometimes you don't have that same assurance with grade dogs (and of course sometimes you don't even have that assurance with papered dogs, either). Having papers can mean that someone was meticulous and did things right. They can also mean that a person just bred dogs because they were out of champion lines but not necessarily good parents. That is when there is a problem. Some benefits I see to grade dogs is that there is a chance that someone was not worried about registries but was focused primarily on breeding dogs that get the job done. However, it can also mean that the pups can't be registered because somebody a few generations back couldn't guarantee what the pups were out of.

You see, papers aren't really good or bad in every situation. It varies. To say it makes all the difference or no difference at all could both be incorrect in different situations. You really can't say that papered dogs are bad dogs because, put plainly, there are probably a whole bunch of papered dogs that will flat out work in the field. At the same time, plenty of grade dogs can probably get it done as well. You have to look at the breeding (which is sometimes easier when there are papers) to see what you want, not the fact of whether they are registered or not.

Here is another way to look at it. I have mountain curs. I have puppy papers on them both but have not registered either one of them. If it is true that registered dogs are bad, then that means my dogs are good dogs as we speak because they aren't registered, but if I sent in the papers tomorrow, they could suddenly be bad dogs because they are no longer grade. See, that logic doesn't really work. Just a way to look at it and see just how much it doesn't matter.