Time Capsule Sunday

1960 Westminster Kennel Club Non-Sporting Group Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGRxLCdZko

1960 Westminster Kennel Club Non-Sporting Group Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGRxLCdZko

WHAT’S IN A WORD? – Dog Show Terminology
Check out the second installment of our series that explains common dog show terms.

Happy Easter From The Canine Chronicle! We wish you a blessed Easter Sunday. How are you celebrating Easter with your dog? If you are doing an Easter egg hunt, dressing up, or celebrating with your dog in any way – we would love to see it and share with our readers! Email Cheslie at cheslie@caninechronicle.com […]

Last week we asked our readers to share their funniest or must embarrassing win or candid photo from a dog show…all in good fun! Holly Leftwich sent us this great moment when her Dogue de Bordeaux, “Groot”, was lunging for a photographer’s squeaky toy! Do you have a photo where you are having a bad […]

WHAT’S IN A WORD? – Dog Show Terminology
Check out the first installment of our series that explains common dog show terms.

Thank you to Vivian Hudson and Sylvia Martinez for sharing this fun video of their American Cocker Spaniel, SkyBee, sharing some lighthearted and helpful tips in a Public Service Announcement for Coronavirus.

When we asked our readers if puppies were keeping them busy at home during this downtime, many answered with a resounding”Yes!” Congratulations to Adam and Maddie Peterson on the birth of their new Wirehaired Dachshund litter that was born on April 5th! Adam and Maddie will be keeping especially busy during quarantine with this big […]

Icancelled our show. The show we had been planning for a year, the show that broke all our entry records for the past decade. It wasn’t an easy decision. I have a reputation to uphold as the last person to prepare for a hurricane/metro impact/zombie apocalypse…I have handlers contacting me to make sure the show is still on, reminding me their livelihoods depend on my decision; I have all those memes on Facebook telling me “it’s no worse than the flu…”

Thanks to Dottie James for sharing this sweet photo of Wilma catching a catnap during one of her days in quarantine.

As I am wont to wonder, now that I am approaching advanced maturity and tend toward remembrance of things past rather than to future anticipation: Did what I did make increasing sense and show some degree of intellectual progress as time passed; or did I fall into a rut early on and go with the flow? Hair graying, waistline thickening but brain in neutral; an all too common syndrome.
During decades of judging purebred dogs, I have evolved a philosophy and a technique I am very comfortable with and which best enables me to fulfill my good judging criteria: