Find the latest statistics on The Canine Chronicle website at www.CanineChronicle.com/statistics Statistics covering January 1, 2021 through October 31, 2021 are online now! • Top 100 Dogs Amongst All Breeds • All Breed Standings • Breed Standings • NOHS Standings • Grand Champion Standings • Junior Showmanship Standings Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle […]
The American Kennel Club® (AKC®) is pleased to recognize breeding programs from the Sporting, Hound, Working, Terrier, Toy, Non-Sporting and Herding groups as 2021 AKC Breeder of the Year group honorees. “It is our pleasure to honor this group of esteemed breeders,” said Dennis Sprung, AKC President and CEO. “These individuals have made important contributions to […]
Find the latest statistics on The Canine Chronicle website at www.CanineChronicle.com/statistics Statistics covering January 1, 2021 through October 31, 2021 are online now! • Top 100 Dogs Amongst All Breeds • All Breed Standings • Breed Standings • NOHS Standings • Grand Champion Standings • Junior Showmanship Standings Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle […]
Now that everyone has lined up, received their Covid jabs, and the next round is underway, probably the last thing you want to hear about is another shot. But here we are, debating the need to vaccinate dogs against Covid.
Actually, quite a few members of the animal kingdom have been receiving Covid vaccinations for the past year. Couple that with the conventional wisdom of ensuring that your dogs’ shots are up to date, the ongoing worry is obvious. You may recall early in the pandemic, when documented cases of crossover transmission confirmed the existence of Covid antibodies in dogs and cats owned by infected individuals led to mass panic. Ultimately, none of the dogs developed any serious illness.
The problem with a virus is that what’s true today won’t necessarily hold true tomorrow. Alpha, delta, well, you get the point. Viruses mutate constantly and quickly. Zoonotic transmission is also nothing new, it accounts for most of viral diseases humans contend with. Viruses constantly recombine and eventually jump the species barrier. However, that doesn’t automatically translate into something like rabies. Most of these viral one off mutations fall under the radar. They never lead to illness and never get noticed unless we start hunting them.
The American Kennel Club (AKC®), the world’s largest purebred dog registry and leading advocate for all dogs, is excited to announce the winners of the first-ever AKC/USPCA K9 Detection Dog Challenge.
- Grants Matched Through Adopt A K-9 Cop Program – AKC Reunite, the largest non-profit pet microchip identification and recovery service provider in the United States, is pleased to announce $157,500 in donations to K-9 units at twenty police departments in ten different states through its AKC ReuniteAdopt a K-9 Cop matching grant program. Funds were raised by contributions from […]
Preference in bed partners is normally not a topic for general conversation except in our little sector of the universe. When we get down to those “open and honest” confessions, it’s never a question of yes or no to allowing dogs in the bed. Usually, it’s how many.
After all those years of didactic advice about how to prevent dogs from developing that terrible habit, we don’t need to pretend anymore. Actually, we gave up a long time ago. Chihuahuas or Great Danes, they invariably hog the covers and we find ourselves clinging to a sliver of the mattress by morning. We complain but it goes on, nonetheless.
