Words-of-Wisdom from Jane – Hallmark – Essence – Salient
These three terms are essential and paramount to understanding and judging every breed and facilitate a deeper understanding of the breed standard.
“Author Archive”
The 2021 AKC Canine Health Foundation Parent Club Conference
The 2021 AKC Canine Health Foundation National Parent Club Health Conference was a virtual event this year. I confess it was nice to attend at home in my shorts, but the experience drove home the value of networking with researchers as well as with parent club health representatives. Plus, there was no good food. Nonetheless, there was still plenty of good information, divided into topics of dermatology, cancer, neurology, and cardiology. There’s never space to cover every presentation, but here are the highlights of the cancer and neurology sessions. I’ll cover the dermatology and cardiac session next month.
Will’s World – Dog Show Tips – Patricia Laurans Interview
Will Alexander Drops Some Knowledge About What’s Happening in the Sport of Dogs. It’s Deep… It’s Humorous… It’s Provocative… It’s Will Unfiltered! This week Will interviews Patricia Laurans. Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle TV!
A Long-Term Symbiotic Learning Relationship
Although dogs and wolves may have split into different species around 100,000 years ago, according to the latest mitochondrial DNA research, somewhere between 12,500 and 17,000 years ago, dogs and humans formed a partnership. However, archaeological finds in Belgium and elsewhere suggest that wild wolves may have been selectively bred by humans beginning as far back as 32,000 years and may have been one factor in helping homo sapiens survive by making them more efficient hunter-gatherers than their nearest competitor, homo neanderthalensis, which eventually withered and died out.
A Five-Step Program to Winning With A Puppy
Have you recently bought a beautiful puppy or young dog and found you have not been winning as you had hoped? Do you have a gorgeous puppy that you want to start showing? Do you want to give him the best chance possible of winning?
Sir Bedivere – A Lyndhurst Legend
The general public may never truly appreciate the esoteric knowledge required to breed great purebred dogs. It takes an incredible amount of time and effort to learn this stuff. However, there’s one aspect of purebred quality that they will instantly latch onto… MONEY!
Will’s World – Top 10 Things We Did When FaceBook Went Down
Will Alexander Drops Some Knowledge About What’s Happening in the Sport of Dogs. It’s Deep… It’s Humorous… It’s Provocative… It’s Will Unfiltered! This week Will gives us Top 10 Things We Did When FaceBook Went Down. Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle TV!
The Intelligent Dog
Dictionaries are rather precise when defining the word “intelligence.” Even so, many of us sometimes seem to misunderstand the word as it applies to dogs. For example, a dog appearing cute and alert might be mistaken for intelligent by thousands of pet owners.
The Art of Trimming – The Beginning
We bitch endlessly about every aspect of this game. That’s a perfectionist mentality. And when you get a few thousand obsessive perfectionists in one place–well, it does not add up to perfect. That sort of demanding, overly critical attitude inevitably churns plenty of disagreement. However, it has also been responsible for creating the infrastructure of our sport. Think about it. Every cultural hallmark, rule, or ingrained habit is the result of someone deciding to do this right or to not do it at all.
IMHO – Groups That are the Most Rewarding and Challenging
In asking this month’s contributors in which groups they currently find their personal strengths and challenges, you will find some similarities and diversity in their responses. Isn’t that truly what might be expected?
