It is time to put your thinking caps on! For today’s Virtual Dog Show, we are asking our readers to be the judge and place the following three Irish Setter males First, Second and Third AND to tell us why. The complete AKC Official Standard for Irish Setters is available online here. As quoted from the [...]
As I am wont to wonder, now that I am approaching advanced maturity and tend toward remembrance of things past rather than to future anticipation: Did what I did make increasing sense and show some degree of intellectual progress as time passed; or did I fall into a rut early on and go with the flow? Hair graying, waistline thickening but brain in neutral; an all too common syndrome.
During decades of judging purebred dogs, I have evolved a philosophy and a technique I am very comfortable with and which best enables me to fulfill my good judging criteria:
Last week we asked our readers to share their funniest or must embarrassing win or candid photo from a dog show…all in good fun! Thank you to Mary Merlo for sharing this fun photo with us. A photographer caught her celebrating her win at JUST the wrong moment! Do you have a photo where you [...]
Finally, after several weekends in a row of family events and dog show commitments, my husband, Marvin, and I were both at home at the same time. For us, yes indeed, this is a very special event. What better way to celebrate than to have Chinese take-out? There was just one issue to be resolved, where to order the food.
Thank you to Chrystal Murray for helping us share this sweet keepsake with our readers today – a photo of Siba as a young puppy! Siba is the 2020 Westminster Kennel Club Best in Show and was one of America’s Top Dogs of All Breeds in 2019. Siba is GCHP Stonerun Afternoon Tea. She is [...]
Certain dogs may be more susceptible than others to developing environmentally associated cancers. Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are studying how exposure to common environmental chemicals, like those found in tobacco smoke and yard products, and individual genetic differences in response to them, put dogs at risk for common cancers. Information gained will help [...]
By Amy Fernandez Strange times we are living in right now. Even in our fringy realm this lifestyle is a whole new learning curve. Obviously, it’s hard to schedule life with …no schedule. So, downtime is all the time. I don’t know about you, but I’m totally caught up with beer drinking and binge watching [...]
In order to provide the sport greater flexibility during this time of uncertainty, the AKC Board approved staff recommendations to modify the following standard procedures/policies. These modifications will be in effect for 2020, unless specific dates are noted.
We are making a call out for our readers to share photos or videos of what you and your dogs are doing while cooped up at home. Are your dogs helping you work at home or helping you clean up around the house? Or are they creating more work and more clutter by leaving their [...]
