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Formerly Abused Dog Gets New Start with Help of Agility
PACH Remy AX AXJ MXP7 MXPS MJP7 MJPS PAX2 NF OFP T2BP2 owned by Leslie Cash of Kalamazoo, MI In 2008, Leslie decided to add a homeless dog to her canine family and found a little black terrier mix named Romeo in a Kalamazoo shelter. “At the time, agility wasn't on my mind when I […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/formerly-abused-dog-gets-new-start-with-help-of-agility/
| November 28, 2016
Canine Partners
Gabe Has Spent 10 Years Soothing Others as Therapy Dog
Gabe RN THDD CGC, owned by Joyce Kilgard of Coal Valley, IL, was a natural therapy dog from day one. He was already certified and started working at age 1 year. He recently earned the AKC Distinguished Therapy Dog award (THDD) for making more than 400 visits. Eleven-year-old Gabe is a very special dog who […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/gabe-has-spent-10-years-soothing-others-as-therapy-dog/
| November 17, 2016
Canine Partners
Kai Continues Reign as Top Mixed-Breed in Coursing
Kai, a 5 year-old Catahoula Leopard dog mix, has earned the AKC Coursing Ability Excellent 6 title, the most Coursing Ability Titles earned by an All-American Dog so far. He brought home the CAX6 at the Langley Kennel Club’s Coursing Ability Tests (CAT) held Oct. 8-9 in Palmyra, PA. Achieving the CAX, the top title […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/kai-continues-reign-as-top-mixed-breed-in-coursing/
| October 26, 2016
Canine Partners
11-Year-Old Former Shelter Dog Achieves Agility Championship
Siren is an 11 1/2 year old mixed breed that Kelly McFaul-Solem rescued in 2005 from a shelter in Minnesota. “It was definitely love at first sight,” she said. “She was very skittish and afraid of new situations when we brought her into our lives. Agility has helped her blossom into the sweet, athletic dog she […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/11-year-old-former-shelter-dog-achieves-agility-championship/
| September 23, 2016
Canine Partners
Cute Corky is Always Ready to Learn a New Trick
PACH Corky RE MXP4 MXP3 MJP3 MJPB PAX owned by Carol Clay of Rio Rancho, NM Corky is Carol’s first agility dog and first agility champion. She adopted Corky from a rescue group in 2008 and began the agility journey in 2010. They had just started to compete when AKC began the AKC Canine Partners […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/cute-corky-is-always-ready-to-learn-a-new-trick/
| September 30, 2016
Canine Partners
Emberly Overcomes Fear of Water to Become Dock Master
Emberly CA RATS DM owned by Kathryn Smiley of Kingsport, TN Emberly is a mixed-breed dog also known by Kathryn as “The Very Rare Spotted Dog.” Kathryn first met Emberly as an 8-week-old puppy at Young Williams Animal Shelter in Knoxville, TN, and says “our futures changed forever. With her heart, stamina, and a boundless […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/emberly-overcomes-fear-of-water-to-become-dock-master/
| October 10, 2016
Canine Partners
Pup Given Away in Parking Lot Now Agility Champ
MACH Jillie of Gorman Avenue owned by Lisa Putnam of St. Paul, MN Jillie had humble beginnings. A good Samaritan rescued her and her three littermates as young puppies from a person who was giving them away from a trunk of a car. He brought them to an animal humane society shelter, where Lisa spotted […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/pup-given-away-in-parking-lot-now-agility-champ/
| September 28, 2016
Canine Partners
“Pocket Setter” Still Running Great at 10 Years
Spotacular Lil Jazz Hands MXP2 MXP MJP4 MJPB CGC, also known as Sammie, is one-half of a great agility team with his owner Sue Thompson of Raleigh, NC. At 10 years old, Sammie is running better than ever and closing in on the AKC Preferred Agility Championship through the AKC Canine Partners program. Sue tells us […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/pocket-setter-still-running-great-at-10-years/
| September 1, 2016
Canine Partners
Honored Therapy Dog Earns AKC Rally Top Title
Gra’Nola Doodle CDX RAE OA OAJ AXP NF OFP THDX owned by Ingrid Schillebeeckx-Rice of Barnegat, NJ Nola’s career started as an animal assisted therapy dog in the Little Egg Harbor School District. Nola worked with both the general and special education population, serving as a catalyst for therapists, teachers and counselors to accomplish […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/honored-therapy-dog-earns-akc-rally-top-title/
| August 25, 2016
Canine Partners
Peek Out of Kennel Brings Home Bella & Starts Agility Career
Peek out of Kennel Brings Home Bella & Starts Agility Career MACH Jennifer’s Princess Bella MXS MJS OF owned by Jennifer Masterson of Zanesville, OH Jennifer stopped at the dog shelter one day on a whim. As she was talking with a staff member about what types of dogs they had, Bella came from the […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/peek-out-of-kennel-brings-home-bella-starts-agility-career/
| August 18, 2016