It’s no secret that AKC has been sliding down a slippery slope the last couple decades. Ignoring vitriolic AR rhetoric hasn’t proven to be the best strategy, but it is what it is. Right now, the main goal is reviving its formerly glorious standing in the dog world. And like many things, it’s just a matter of seeing the obvious solution rather than wandering through the weeds.
To address the importance of oral health care for pets, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is sponsoring National Pet Dental Health Month in February. AVMA President Dr. Jose Arce says regular dental exams are an integral component of a pet’s overall health care, and can help prevent more serious health problems.
Five New Grants Will Benefit Shelters in Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania
Group and Best In Show Judges Talk About Their Choices in Their Own Words…
I have sometimes likened Westminster to Brigadoon—the imaginary Scottish village celebrated in the Lerner & Loewe 1950s musical. It’s a charmed moment of canine ephemera that appears magically (and with a hell of a lot of hard work) once a year.
Broad assumptions are always a risky bet; just ask anyone in marketing. Yeah, everybody likes to eat but the reality goes off on a zillion tangents from there.
101 Park Avenue, in Manhattan, which houses the AKC Museum of the Dog, is sleek and modern, but on the inside lies a rich material past. The Museum and the AKC’s archives were first housed at the Club’s old headquarters at 51 Madison Avenue, then relocated to St. Louis, and then returned to New York in February of 2019. The collection now takes up several floors, and the Club’s public display is on the first through the third floors.
Sometimes it feels like life’s become one giant, endless festival of weird diseases. Okay, maybe that’s an overstatement but Covid has spawned plenty of unexpected repercussions.
This year has seen an increase of 40 per cent or more in the entries for the Irish Water Spaniel, Sloughi, Lowchen (Little Lion Dog) and Canadian Eskimo Dog compared with 2020.
Of our 196 recognized breeds, literally half–98 of the breeds–are considered low entry breeds.” That’s according to Dr. Charles Garvin, who has exciting news for the future of purebred dogs.
