The American Kennel Club® (AKC), the world’s largest purebred dog registry and leading advocate for dogs, is pleased to announce the fourth annual Companion Animal Law Writing Contest. The contest is open to all students currently enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school. The contest will offer a first-place prize of $2500 and a second-place prize of [...]
For those of us that have been in dogs for an extended period of time, we know that in our lives a special dog enters our world and is with us forever.
I am thrilled to point out to everyone that the weekend prior to Labor Day there will be FOUR–yes, my friends–FOUR clusters!! All in different parts of the country! Iowa, Ohio, Wyoming and Oklahoma! (NOTE!! Those of you attending the Iowa Cluster should contact your hotel to confirm availability since a lot of damage occurred during that massive storm).
There’s a saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. It’s a common phrase that means it is challenging to teach something or someone something new if that person or animal has been doing things a certain way for so long that they’re too stubborn to learn how to do it differently. While that’s not exactly true of old dogs, it can be a bit more difficult and take more patience to teach an old dog something new. But it’s even more difficult and time consuming when the “old dog” is actually the dog’s owner or his professional trainer, Craig Klein, who isn’t old but like me is accustomed to training dogs a certain way, and the result was that both of us have had to learn a bunch of “new tricks.”
The Elgin Kennel Club to be held in St Charles, Illinois, this weekend, Saturday, August 22nd and Sunday, August 23rd 2020 have been cancelled. The Elgin Kennel Club is greatly disappointed with this decision. All payments for RV Parking and Reservations will be destroyed. Kudos to the Elgin Kennel Club for their hard work and [...]
The BlueRose Kennels video series provides useful tips, tricks, tutorials and product reviews for the dog show community as well as all dog lovers who want to learn something new. In this video, Amy share How to Groom The Golden Retriever Hocks. We hope you enjoy it!.
The Kennel Club has approved a new official DNA test reporting scheme for progressive rod-cone degeneration, progressive retinal atrophy (prcd-PRA) in American Cocker Spaniels following consultation with the breed health co-ordinator. PRA (progressive retinal atrophy) is a condition that causes the parts of the eye that are sensitive to light to break down. PRA produces a gradual [...]
The Southern California Sporting Dog Fanciers are proud to announce two days of Group Shows on October 17th and 18th in Temecula California. The Premium List is available online at: Dogzibit.com entries@dogzibit.com. Entries are limited to Entries open at noon on August 19th and close at noon on September 30th or when the limit is reached.
AKC policymaking has always been a mysterious process. The decisions emanating from that boardroom often stray far outside the boundaries of the organization’s official stance.
