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.
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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.
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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.
Remembering Mr. Robert Slay
We received the sad news that Mr. Robert Slay of Cary, North Carolina has passed away. Mr. Slay was one of the most knowledgeable and sought after opinions in the sport of purebred dogs. He was an AKC Judge of all Sporting, Working, Herding breeds, as well as Best in Show. He was a past […]
#ThrowbackThursday – Guess Who?
Here is a great photo to share for this #ThrowbackThursday. Can you name the folks pictured in this week’s throwback? Guess who? Check back on Monday for the correct answer! Do you have a fun photo that you would like to share for #ThrowbackThursday? Email Cheslie at cheslie@caninechronicle with your photos – We look forward […]
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?
Think Outside Your Breed
How many exhibitors leave the dog show after losing the breed? How many exhibitors win the breed and do not place in the group? How many exhibitors will proclaim, “That judge doesn’t like hairy dogs, that judge only puts up his friends, or that judge doesn’t know my breed?” Well, here is the $10,000 question, how many exhibitors or handlers for that matter, have read every breed standard in their respective Group? Is it fair for the exhibitor of the Standard Poodle to pass judgement on the Bulldog? Or vice versa?
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!
