The Kennel Club Art Gallery has announced the opening of its latest exhibition, which features two of the UK’s most popular and well-loved breeds: the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and King Charles Spaniel. Visitors will be able to view over 180 items representing these breeds through paintings, engravings, sculptures, photographs and ephemera. Important historical items […]
The Kennel Club would like to address increasing concerns about the occurrence of undesirable colours in some breeds of pedigree dog. The Kennel Club breed standard for each pedigree breed states the desired colours for that breed, but this is disregarded by some breeders who sell puppies of non-standard colours at an inflated cost by […]
As we reported last week, the Eukanuba World Challenge will move to Amsterdam for 2014. This move might have been unexpected by those in the fancy, but Jason Taylor, Asst. Show Chairman of the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship and Sr. Communications Manager for Iams, Eukanuba and Natura Pet Foods says the move is positive for the World […]
For several years tail docking, ear cropping and declaw removal has been a topic at the forefront of purebred dog discussions The declarations by various provincial veterinary regulators that practitioners within their jurisdiction can no longer provide these services has sparked some angst for many active CKC members. At the same time, legislative and societal […]
The Eukanuba World Challenge is excited to announce that the 2014 Eukanuba World Challenge Finals will be held at the Amsterdam Winner Show, December 13-14, 2014, in the Netherlands. The Eukanuba World Challenge Finals were typically held in conjunction with the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in Long Beach, California and Orlando, Florida. Jose Luis Ibanez, Commerical […]
A breed health survey has been launched by the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of UK with the support of the Kennel Club. The survey aims to give a better picture of the health of the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever in the UK and can be completed by anyone who owns a Nova […]
New York, NY – If you’re anything like my wife and I, it all started the day you brought that one dog into your life. For us, it was Caesar – our first Bullmastiff. Since there was no Internet back then, we found him through the classifieds in our local paper. He was a great dog, just […]
New registration statistics released by the Kennel Club reveal that the Skye Terrier, which is one of the most vulnerable of Britain’s native dog breeds – and more rare than the Giant Panda – saw one of the biggest increases in puppy registrations in the first quarter of 2014.
Even though we are regarded as a nation of pet lovers, many dog owners struggle to find shops, pubs, restaurants, hotels and even beaches that welcome their four-legged friends. That is why the Kennel Club has launched the 2014 Be Dog Friendly Awards to reward and encourage businesses and public places across the UK that […]
The UK’s largest organisation dedicated to dog welfare, the Kennel Club, has welcomed amendments made to the Dangerous Dogs Act (1991) which extend the law to cover incidents on private property, increase maximum sentences for owners of dangerous dogs, and makes injuries to assistance dogs an aggravated offence. However the organisation remains disappointed that Government […]
