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Expert Advice: Fun With Your Dog
Celebrate National Train Your Dog Month With These Tricks: Week One
January is National Train Your Dog Month and there's no better way to celebrate the bond between you and your canine companion than by introducing some fun into your daily routine. Tricks training is a great way to do that. National Train Your Dog Month was established six years ago by the Association of Professional […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/celebrate-national-train-your-dog-month-with-these-tricks-week-one/
| January 6, 2016
Expert Advice: Fun With Your Dog
Celebrate National Train Your Dog Month With These Tricks: Week Four
January is National Train Your Dog Month and there's no better way to celebrate the bond between you and your canine companion than by introducing some fun into your daily routine. Tricks training is a great way to do that. National Train Your Dog Month was established six years ago by the Association of Professional […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/celebrate-national-train-your-dog-month-with-these-tricks-week-four/
| January 28, 2016
Expert Advice: Cute & Funny
10 Things Only a Leonberger Owner Would Know
This larger-than-life breed was developed in the mid-1800s by Heinrich Essig, an exotic-animal dealer and alderman from the German town of Leonberg, who, legend has it, was trying to create a dog to resemble the lion on the town’s crest. Saint Bernard, Newfoundland, Great Pyrenees, are among the breeds went into this intelligent, all-around working […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/things-leonberger-owner-know/
| October 14, 2015
Expert Advice: Cute & Funny
The Winners of the 2016 AKC Publications Photo Contest
Water was a common theme among this year’s photo-contest winners—images of dogs on beaches, at dock diving competitions, and in snow. Others showcased canine beauty in nature, silhouetted against a blazing sunset or bright blue skies. Then there’s one that made us all smile—a gray-muzzled retriever and a gray-haired man exchanging a glance through a […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/the-winners-of-the-2016-akc-publications-photo-contest/
| July 12, 2016
Expert Advice: Cute & Funny
Five Breeds Most Likely to be Mistaken for Bigfoot
All anyone has ever seen is a glimpse of these creatures, and there have been many different accounts, but there are two constants in all Bigfoot sightings. They are "as big as a man, and covered with hair from head to foot," one newspaper reported in 1884. Hmmmm. That could easily describe any number of […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/five-breeds-most-likely-to-be-mistaken-for-bigfoot/
| June 19, 2015
Expert Advice: Cute & Funny
The Belgian Tervuren Is One Breed That Will Keep Your Ducks in a Row
Herding is just one of the many talents of this graceful, elegant breed, named after a town in Belgium. The Belgian Tervuren is smart, highly trainable, and has a terrific sense of humor. They excel in all kinds of activities—obedience, agility, search and rescue, therapy, flyball, you name it! As the breed standard specifies, the […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/belgian-tervuren-keeps-your-ducks-in-row/
| December 28, 2015
Expert Advice: Cute & Funny
5 Surprising Gifts Alaskan Malamutes Have Given the World
The Alaskan Malamute is the heavy-freight hauler of the canine world, created to pull cargo on sledges through frozen wastelands. These powerhouses share their genetic ancestry with other Northern breeds, such as Siberian Huskies and Samoyeds that are thought to have descended from wolf-dogs hybrids established before the end of the Stone Age. The Malamute’s […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/5-surprising-gifts-alaskan-malamutes-have-given-the-world/
| December 14, 2015
Expert Advice: News
Marine’s Prayers Answered When Bomb-Sniffing Dog Comes Home With Him
A veteran marine had his prayers answered this week. His dog, Rebel, who served with him for eight months in Afghanistan, was once again by his side. Lance Corporal Andrew Harmon had been hoping to be reunited with the Labrador Retriever since his deployment ended several years ago. “I just prayed a lot for the […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/marines-prayers-answered-when-bomb-sniffing-dog-comes-home-with-him/
| July 14, 2016
Expert Advice: News
Spunky Yorkshire Terrier Saves Her Owner’s Life
A 79-year-old New York woman is crediting her Yorkshire Terrier, Labella, with saving her life. When Dottie Fisher was napping last week, Labella, a hearing-alert dog, jumped on her and incessantly nudged her. Although Labella will let Fisher know when a doorbell is ringing or calling on the phone, she's rarely so insistent. And true to […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/yorkshire-terrier-saves-owner/
| August 13, 2015
Expert Advice: News
Yorkie Fights Off Bear Attacking Vietnam Vet
Does size really matter? Not in the case of Benji, a Yorkshire Terrier credited with saving his owner, Vietnam veteran Larry Yepez, from a vicious bear attack. Yepez told Your Central Valley, a local news station in California, that a 250-pound black bear attacked him in his home last week (scroll down for video). He […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/yorkie-fights-off-bear/
| December 9, 2014