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The New Yorker In Dog Years: 100 Years Of Covers At The AKC Museum Of The Dog
The New Yorker magazine celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.
Interpreting Breed Standards
Judging is complicated. It requires walking a fine line between two clear directives.
AKC Event Fees: Everything Rises And Falls On Leadership
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.
Are Dog Shows Fun?
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.
“A Star Is Born” – Can You Name This Current Show Dog?
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! [...]
From Parking Lot to Police Dog: Stray Dog Once Living Off Chicken Nuggets Helps Find Two Missing Children in Indiana Forest
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 [...]
Civics Class And Civilized – Your Posts May Be Held Against You
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.
Send Us Your #FormFollowsFunction Photos!
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 [...]
American Kennel Club Public Education Introduces AKC Pen Pawls Program
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 [...]
