AKC GoodDog! Helpline trainer Christie Canfield CPDT-KA is an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator and teaches CGC prep classes. Here, she gives some helpful hints for skills that will help your dog with the CGC evaluation and also for everyday manners. The AKC Canine Good Citizen title is a benchmark achievement in training your dog. […]

Kori Bevis is no newcomer to the sport of Obedience, and she's no stranger to taking home championships with her dogs, like her Golden Retriever, Baker.

Learn how to calculate dog years into human years with this helpful chart, and find out how researchers came up with the numbers.

AKC Gazette breed column, Chihuahuas—Don’t be in a hurry for that great one. It is far better for a breeder to move slowly toward an eventual goal by tackling one problem at a time, collecting virtues into the genotype and breeding away from faults through careful selection.We all start at the same place, but it […]

Among the marvels of human ingenuity is the way various breeds of dog were developed, mentally and physically, to tackle specific jobs. Consider the farmer’s eternal war against rodents and other burrowing mammals that devastate grain stores, raid henhouses, tear up fields, dig away riverbanks, and carry disease. As their number-one weapon in subterranean warfare, […]

From the day she came into Sylvia Kidd’s life nine years ago, Cowpoke stole her heart and blossomed into her soulmate. With a seamless blend, the Blanchard, Oklahoma, teammates and recent participants in the AKC National Agility Championship in nearby Tulsa, serve up a feel-good back story of love and commitment. So, first things first. […]

Greyhounds aren't known for being water-lovers but dock diving enthusiast Shuggs is an exception. He is the only dog of his breed to title in Diving Dogs.

The fifth time was the charm. Though not unlike the first, second, third, or fourth times. On Monday, a black Labrador Retriever named “Heart" won the Westminster Masters Obedience Championship at the world-famous Manhattan dog show for the fifth consecutive year, with a combined score of 397.5. The fifth straight win resulted in the retiring […]

The AKC Club Relations Department handles the accreditation, licensing and member club approval process for all AKC clubs and administers the development of new clubs so they may qualify for the holding of sanctioned matches, mentored and licensed events. TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I General Information PART II Organization  PART III AKC Accreditation  PART IV […]

AKE 20.1 c. 1880s-1930s [bulk: 1880-1910] 2 linear feet (in 2 document boxes and 2 oversized boxes) Click here for a printable PDF of the collection finding aid   The George Shephard Page papers include the records of the Page family's kennel, Dunrobin Kennels, which includes some of the first Scottish Deerhounds in America. The collection […]