Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective People, taught leaders to “put first things first.” Or, as he put it more memorably: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Not like a picnic. Not like a lazy Sunday. Here, fun is the charge in your chest when the judge points to you, the sharp focus of a perfect down-and-back, the knowledge that the dog beside you could win but today yours did.
Pictured above as a baby, this Poodle is an All-Breed Best In Show winner and a Best In Specialty Show winner. He was Best Of Breed at the 2024 AKC National Championship and the Non-Sporting Group winner at the 2025 Morris & Essex Kennel Club! Hint: You can find him somewhere on The Canine Chronicle website! [...]
A police K9 who once survived on chicken nuggets tossed from car windows is now being praised as a hero after helping locate two lost children in the dense woods of Hoosier National Forest. Knox, a former stray rescued by the nonprofit Redemption Ranch K9, tracked and helped recover two 11-year-olds who had become separated [...]
If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll remember a time when you had no idea what your long-time friends in the sport did for a living, and you sure didn’t know or care what their religious or political preferences were. The reasons were simple. We were too busy talking about dogs. We were dog people, and that’s what mattered most in our lives. Unfortunately, that central part of our sport, that camaraderie, has begun to shatter as national politics has taken over the conversation.
All dog breeds were bred to perform a specific purpose. We want to see our readers’ dogs doing the work they were bred to do to be shared on The Canine Chronicle! Thank you Laura Schreiner for sharing these Form Follows Function photo of your English Springer Spaniel, “Sparx,” (GCH CH MACH3 Vinewood’s The Fire [...]
The American Kennel Club (AKC®), a not-for-profit, the world’s largest registry of purebred dogs and a leading advocate for canine welfare and responsible ownership, has launched a new educational outreach initiative: AKC® Pen Pawls, developed by AKC Public Education. AKC® Pen Pawls is an exciting program that invites children to engage in fun, interactive mail correspondence with [...]
It is important that the sport has confidence in the objectivity and fairness in the AKC discipline procedures.
There appears to be considerable belief among the sport that such is not the case now.
We want to see our readers #NextGeneration photos to be shared on The #CanineChronicle! Thank you Shannon Green for sharing these wonderful photos of your daughter, Kennedy, and her Pekingese! Shannon shared the following about her daughter, “Kennedy competes in both Junior Showmanship and Conformation with her Pekingese, “Lincoln.” We are a Pug family but Kennedy [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST Who is your favorite Borzoi? Tell us about your favorite BORZOI of all time. Your answer MUST be a DECEASED dog from the past. Please include registered name, call name, and the reasons why you believe this particular dog was the very best example of its breed. Please share your all [...]
