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AKC judge, mentor, and breeder, Linda Clark boasts over four decades of hands-on dog experience. Her journey began at sixteen years old, first working as a groomer’s assistant, before attending school to become a Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT). In 1979, she started in AKC with Shetland Sheepdogs, and since then, she has bred and handled numerous top-winning dogs across multiple breeds, including German Shepherds, Beagles, and Vizslas. A prior member of the AKC Registered Handlers Program and the Professional Handlers Association, Linda retired in 2011 to become an AKC judge. Since her pivot to judging, Linda has been an advocate for our sport, serving as a longtime board member of the Dog Judges Association of America (DJAA). She is also a member of many local dog clubs.
January 30th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Click here to read the complete article 130 – July, 2024 By Amy Fernandez Westminster has endured long enough to create generations of great memories. The interesting thing is that personal recollections of those truly great moments are often at odds with conventional thinking. Jim Moses probably heads the list of individuals responsible for creating [...]
January 29th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Despite being born and growing up in the land that brought us such classics as ‘Tarka the Otter’ (a master class of exquisitely beautiful writing, and a book that has never been out of print since first being published in 1927) and ‘Ring of Bright Water’ (which documented Gavin Maxwell’s life in the wilds of Scotland, and his close association with several wild otters–and it is also considered a literary masterpiece), I hadn’t actually seen a wild otter until I visited Vancouver back in 2017.
January 29th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Click here to read the complete article 322 – September, 2022 By Caroline Coile Originally Published September 2022 Why were some owner-handlers grumbling after the Westminster television coverage? During the Westminster groups, and especially Best In Show, the commentators repeated several times that this or that dog, including the Best In Show winner, was owner-handled. [...]
January 28th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
By Amy Fernandez In mid-December the NY Post ran an eye-catching article on celebrities opting to have their dead dogs cloned. Celebrity gossip is standard fare for the Post. However, spinning a fantasy about resurrecting dead pets is something else altogether. Cloning was controversial long before Dolly the sheep made headlines in 1996. Although cloning [...]
January 28th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
After reading Tom Grabe’s insightful From the Publisher editorial on the direction of local kennel clubs, I was inspired to write this article. This is, in my view, such an important subject that echoes all around the dog fancy.
January 28th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Click here to read the complete article 330 – September, 2022 Originally Published: August 2022 We are a nation of strivers, so we are obsessed by “firsts.” First on the moon; first to the top of Everest; first female VP. But then there’s the rites of passage “firsts”: first shave; first love; first time leaving [...]
January 27th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Global in-cabin pet charters, SKYE-PETS.com opens the door to US flights in 2026, taking bookings for US regions New York and Los Angeles, to London, Australia and New Zealand. The international pet flights service expands its global network in 2026, with the first London to New York flight launch in March with prices from $8,990, [...]
January 27th, 2026 | Posted in Current Articles,Featured | Read More »
Take two fingers, starting at the top of your shoulder, and trace the bone that runs horizontally from the top of your shoulder blade (scapula) to the bone (sternum) that sits vertically in the center of your rib cage. That horizontal connecting bone is your clavicle, less formerly known as the collar bone. They are easy to find and see because, unlike most bones, clavicles are not covered in muscle; they are only covered by skin. They are also the only horizontal bones in our body. Most important, however, clavicles connect our arms to our torso. Why is it important to know that humans have a collar bone that actually connects our shoulders to our torso? Because dogs do not.
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