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Expert Advice: News
10 Tricks to Make Halloween a Treat for Your Dog
Halloween can be a fun time for children and families. But for dogs, it can be a nightmare. Here's what you can do to prevent a night of frights. Candy is not for dogs. All forms of chocolate—especially baking or dark chocolate—can be dangerous, and even lethal. Symptoms of chocolate poisoning may include vomiting, diarrhea, […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/10-tricks-make-halloween-treat-dog/
| October 27, 2018
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Expert Advice: Feature
Madame Poodle: Hayes Blake Hoyt Helped Create The Modern Sculpted Show Dog
While every breed has a shot at winning Best in Show at any given dog show, there are some dogs whose stand-on-your-tippy-toes glamour simply makes them hard to ignore. And the Poodle, with his halo of perfectly coiffed fur and showy attitude (so distinctive that it has spawned its eponymous adjective – “Poodley"), is undoubtedly […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/hayes-blake-hoyt-poodle-breeder-handler-and-icon/
| October 15, 2019
Expert Advice: Fun Facts
7 Reasons Why The Keeshond Totally Owns The Nickname The Smiling Dutchman
Stone Age fossils suggest that spitz-type dogs resembling today's Keeshond co-existed with cavemen back as far as 5000 B.C. Images of dogs just like them appear on everything from ancient Greek wine jugs to the Great Seal of Amsterdam. Today, they are the national dog of the Netherlands. Historians have different opinions of how the […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/7-reasons-why-keeshond-owns-nickname/
| December 3, 2015
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Competition Update Fall 2019
We have some big news to report about All-Americans succeeding at earning the top titles in Agility, Coursing Ability, Rally, Obedience, Scent Work, Tracking and Trick Dog. Big congrats to the first All-American to earn the Scent Work Masters title and the seventh All-American to earn the Obedience Trial Championship! AGILITY Master Agility Championships (MACH) Multiple Master Agility […]
https://www.akc.org/register/information/canine-partners/newsletter/competition-update-fall-2019/
| September 26, 2019
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Expert Advice: News
2019 ACE Award Winners: Meet the 5 Heroic Dogs Being Honored This Year
The 2019 winners of the AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence (ACE) were announced September 23. This year's five winners include a Rottweiler who comforted survivors of mass shootings across the country, an Explosive Detection Dog (EDD) Labrador Retriever, a Doberman Pinscher who has participated in 29 missing person searches, a Dalmatian who doubles […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/2019-ace-award-winners-meet-5-heroic-dogs-honored-year/
| September 23, 2019
Press Releases
Five Heroic Dogs Honored with 2019 AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence (ACE)
The AKC® Humane Fund is proud to announce the winners of the 20th annual AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence (ACE). These awards celebrate five loyal, hard-working dogs that have significantly improved the lives of their owners and communities. One award is presented in each of the following five categories: Uniformed Service K-9, Therapy, […]
https://www.akc.org/press-releases/five-heroic-dogs-honored-2019-akc-humane-fund-awards-canine-excellence-ace/
| September 23, 2019
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Expert Advice: Feature
The AKC at 50: Thriving in the Thirties
In 1939, a million Americans a year paid admission to attend AKC shows exhibiting over 100,000 dogs across the country. The mightiest events, Westminster and Morris & Essex, reported record-setting entry numbers during the 1930s that have still never been topped. Savvy publicity efforts and new AKC publications brought the formerly closed-circuit world of purebred dog breeding and exhibition to the American public, who clamored for more. […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/akc-at-50-thriving-thirties/
| September 17, 2019
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Expert Advice: Dog Sports
Making “Scents” of Zuri’s Personality Change
For two years and three months, Zuri was a model young dog — outgoing with zero negative reactivity. But one day, Anita Ambani found herself with a frenetic young Bolognese and no clue what was triggering the drastic change. Add to that, Zuri is the first dog she has owned, and a non-traditional one at […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/sports/scent-work-helps-anxious-dog/
| February 6, 2019
Press Releases
The American Kennel Club Launches its Inaugural AKC Trick Dog Virtual Competition
The American Kennel Club is excited to announce that the 1st AKC Trick Dog Virtual Competition has begun! AKC Elite Performer Trick Dogs from around the country will be able to participate in the inaugural virtual event. Dogs participating in the competition must have earned the Elite Performer Trick Dog Title by September 2nd, 2019. […]
https://www.akc.org/press-releases/american-kennel-club-launches-inaugural-akc-trick-dog-virtual-competition/
| September 4, 2019
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Canine Partners
Never Too Old for New Tricks!
Sugar Creek's Original CGC TKA CA FM owned by Tammy Bennett of Rock Hill, SC Sugar just celebrated her 18th birthday, on July 4. The above picture was taken last year, a couple of months before her 17th birthday, earning her CA title at a Coursing Ability Test in Charlotte, NC. Sugar was Tammy’s flyball […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/never-too-old-for-new-tricks/
| July 12, 2019