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Expert Advice: Feature
2019 ACE Award Winner Molly Is An Exemplary Fire Safety Education Dalmatian
“If we can save just one life, it’s all been worth it,” remarks 2019 AKC ACE Award-winning dog owner Dayna Hilton. Hilton, executive director of the Arkansas-based Keep Kids Fire Safe ® Foundation, has certainly saved far more lives than one, but she isn’t the star of the road appearances and Skype shows that keep her in […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/fire-safety-dalmatian-molly-wins-2019-ace-award/
| September 25, 2019
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Expert Advice: Dog Sports
6 Toys to Get Your Dog Amped for Dock Diving
If your canine companion can't stay away from water and loves to fetch, you both might enjoy a sport that's quickly growing in popularity: Diving Dogs. What You Need to Know about Dock Diving In the sport of Diving Dogs, handlers throw a toy into a body of water while your dog waits on a […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/sports/6-toys-to-get-your-dog-amped-for-dock-diving/
| September 25, 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
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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
Press Releases
The American Kennel Club Celebrates 135th Anniversary
-Organization is An Advocate for Breed Preservation & Dogs Everywhere- On September 17, 1884, a group of 12 dedicated sportsmen from local dog clubs convened to form the American Kennel Club® (AKC®). 135 years later, the AKC has grown into the world’s largest not-for-profit dog registry and is the second oldest amateur sport-governing body in the […]
https://www.akc.org/press-releases/american-kennel-club-celebrates-135th-anniversary/
| September 17, 2019
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Expert Advice: Breed History
The American Kennel Club Celebrates 140 Years of All Things Dogs
The American Kennel Club met for the first time on September 17th 1884 in Philadelphia. 140 years later, we've become the trusted experts on all things dog.
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeds/american-kennel-club-anniversary/
| September 16, 2019
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Expert Advice: Feature
Mr. Borzoi: Louis Murr Was a Russian Wolfhound Advocate and Judge to Be Reckoned With
Louis Murr was a renowned Borzoi owner, breeder, exhibitor, and judge. Most authorities of the time considered Murr's Ch. Vigow of Romanoff to be the greatest Borzoi ever bred on American soil A tragic event cut Vigow's career short Murr died in 1978, two years after retiring from judging, at age 84 Never mind Rasputin's […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/borzoi-louis-murr-breeder-judge/
| August 28, 2019
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Expert Advice: Puppy Health
Puppy Senses: How Your Puppy Sees, Hears, and Smells the World
Puppies' eyes open at 14-21 days old, but their sight is still limited Hearing is the last sense that puppies fully develop — they can't hear until about three weeks old Puppies navigate by smell from the moment they are born — it is their strongest sense Puppies come tumbling into our lives full of […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/puppy-senses/
| August 28, 2019
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Expert Advice: Feature
Working Dogs for Conservation May Be The Key to a Greener World
Working Dogs for Conservation (WD4C) is the world’s leading conservation detection dog organization WD4C pioneered ways to use dogs’ sense of smell to protect wildlife by building upon techniques from narcotics detection, cadaver detection, and search and rescue, Traditional survey techniques require expensive helicopters, dangerous tranquilizers, or inefficient camera traps Dogs fix all of those problems […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/meet-the-working-dogs-for-conservation/
| August 27, 2019
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Expert Advice: Lifestyle
Back-to-School Shopping for Dog-Lovers
Love dogs? Love stocking up on back-to-school essentials? Then this is the shopping list for you. From lunch bags and backpacks to pens and pencils, here are some of our favorite supplies perfect for letting your — or your child's — pet-loving personality shine. 1. “Best in Show” Pencils for Dog-Lovers U.S. Toy Dog Pencils […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/back-to-school-shopping-for-dog-lovers/
| August 23, 2019