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Expert Advice: News
Vive le Chien! Celebrate Bastille Day with AKC’s French Breeds!
July 14 is Bastille Day, when France and Francophiles the world over commemorate the start of the French Revolution in 1789. The AKC joins the celebration in just the way you’d expect—with dogs. Here’s a roundup of some AKC breeds developed in France, plus a few that are French by tradition if not by birth. […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/vive-le-chien/
| July 9, 2015
Expert Advice: Responsible Breeding
Responsible Breeding – The Evolution of Breeds
There are times when it makes sense for a breeder to stamp more than just a "thumbprint" of influence on a breed. Dogs are generally thought to have descended from wolves. Kim Campbell Thornton's recent article "Looking Back to the Beginning" (AKC GAZETTE, September 1999) describes research that has determined, through DNA sequences, that the […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeding/responsible-breeding-the-evolution-of-breeds/
| May 4, 2015
Expert Advice: Feature
Breed Improvements: Old Problems and New Solutions
There is a general movement within the dog world that has breeders and their clubs looking for new ways to make breed improvements. This is occurring because of the growing arsenal of tools available to breeders and their clubs. Given these conditions, the opportunity for making improvements is well within the reach of most clubs […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/breed-improvements-problems-solutions-specialty-show/
| April 23, 2015
Canine Partners
Junior Handler Spotlight: Kayla Braden
By Gary N. Sadler It may be hard to imagine, but at 14, Kayla is an "old hand" when it comes to training and running pointing dogs in AKC Hunting Tests. Around dogs all of her life, Kayla was introduced at age six to German Shorthaired Pointers by her Grandmother, Stacie Smith. At seven, Kayla […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/junior-handler-spotlight-kayla-braden/
| April 23, 2015
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Expert Advice: News
Pioneering a Rare Breed
By Allan Reznik By Allan Reznik (Reprinted with permission from Dogs in Review and author Allan Reznik, from the November 2014 issue of Dogs in Review magazine. People get into a new breed for all kinds of reasons: the need to downsize, a desire for less grooming, a thirst for greater challenges, even the search […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/pioneering-a-rare-breed-32315/
| March 23, 2015
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Expert Advice: Fun Facts
Top 10 Breeds of the 1910s
The Boston Terrier, a top-ten breed for six decades of the 20th century, has reached the number-one position twice, including in the 1910s. The Airedale Terrier reached the number-two position, the highest the breed would ever claim, appearing in the top ten for three consecutive decades and then never regaining its national popularity. The decade […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/top-ten-breeds-of-the-1910s/
| February 13, 2015
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Expert Advice: Fun Facts
Top 10 Breeds of the 1900s
The Collie, on a continual climb since its number-seven position in the 1880s, became the number-one breed of the first decade of the new century. The breed ranked in the top ten breeds for seven decades of the 20th century. The number-two breed of the decade, the Boston Terrier, became the first small companion dog […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/top-ten-breeds-of-the-1900s/
| February 13, 2015
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Expert Advice: Fun Facts
Top Ten Breeds Of The 1890s
Accepted into AKC in 1885, the Saint Bernard swiftly rose to the position of the most popular dog of the 1890s. To this day, it is the only giant breed to secure the country’s top position as well as the only number-one breed to never appear in the top ten again. In later decades, two […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/top-ten-breeds-of-the-1890s/
| February 13, 2015
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Expert Advice: Fun Facts
Top 10 Breeds of the 1880s
The top five breeds of the 1880s were all working gundog breeds. While this is the only decade that the English Setter reigned as the number-one breed, it remained in the top ten for four decades, though it hasn’t appeared there in the top ten since the 1910s. Irish Setters, the number-two breed of the […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/top-ten-breeds-of-the-1880s/
| February 13, 2015
Expert Advice: Breeding Tips & Best Practices
Beware the “Drag of the Breed”
When judging, take care that you don’t allow exaggerations to influence you. We are Americans, and many of us have a tendency when we look at a car to think that if a little chrome is good, then a lot is better! If a dog who moves alertly and with purpose is good, then an […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeding/beware-the-drag-of-the-breed/
| January 31, 2015