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Canine Partners
Pit Bull Flyball Team Raises Awareness About BSL
The Revolution Flyball Club of Pennsylvania includes a team of all Pit Bulls and a Pit Bull mix. You can see them in action in this video filmed at a flyball tourney held in conjunction with the Philadelphia Kennel Club dog show last year. Team BSL (stands for Breed Specific Lineup) was formed to educate the public about […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/pit-bull-flyball-team-raises-awareness-about-bsl/
| September 25, 2015
Canine Partners
Teenager Excels at AKC Agility with Her Rescue Dog
JuliAnna Munden is a lifelong dog lover, but training classes and competitions never occurred to her. A bark in her backyard changed all that. One day five years ago, JuliAnna was trying to study but a persistent bark outside her home in Pasco, WA, kept interrupting. “I went out back and saw this dog inside […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/teen-ager-excels-at-akc-agility-with-her-rescue-dog/
| June 3, 2015
Expert Advice: Grooming
Dog Grooming
Ask AKC All dog owners need expert advice from time to time to meet the challenges of caring for their canines. The American Kennel Club aims to provide you and your purebred dog with the help you asked for. Dear AKC: I have a new Bulldog I rescued from a shelter about two months ago. […]
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/dog-grooming/
| May 16, 2015
Canine Partners
A Guide to Toy Shopping for Your Pup
This article is brought to you by Christie Canfield of the AKC GoodDog! Helpline training team. The helpline is a seven-day-a-week telephone support line staffed by experienced dog trainers. It can be bewildering. Enter a pet supply shop to buy your dog a present and face aisle after aisle of different toys. Which one and […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/a-guide-to-toy-shopping-for-your-pup/
| May 13, 2015
Canine Partners
Former Shelter Dog Excels at Search & Rescue
This article originally appeared in the AKC Canine Partners News newsletter. Chris Moore and her family were content with owning two small dogs until a crime stripped their security away. The family returned home one day to discover a theft had taken place. Their home had been broken into, but thankfully, their Miniature Dachshunds, Mocha […]
https://www.akc.org/canine-partners/former-shelter-dog-excels-at-search-rescue/
| May 7, 2015
Press Releases
Living Large! Bigger Breeds Shake Up Top 10 On Most Popular List
Lab Ties Poodle for the Longest Consecutive Reign at #1 and Bulldog Enters Top 5 Check out a Slideshow of the Top 10 Breeds at TODAY.COM New York, NY – Proving that bigger really is better, the American Kennel Club (AKC®) announced today that the Bulldog has muscled its way into the top […]
https://www.akc.org/press-releases/living-large-bigger-breeds-shake-up-top-10-on-most-popular-list/
| January 30, 2013
Press Releases
1st Quarter 2010 Community Achievement Awards
American Kennel Club Honors The Bayou Kennel Club With a Community Achievement Award The American Kennel Club® announced recently that the Bayou Kennel Club (BKC) of Monroe, Louisiana has been named a recipient of the AKC® Community Achievement Award for its contributions to its community after natural disasters. BKC received one of three awards for […]
https://www.akc.org/press-releases/1st-quarter-2010-community-achievement-awards/
| April 9, 2010
Press Releases
AKC Honors Massachusetts Fancier Holly Stump With a Community Achievement Award
The American Kennel Club® announced today that Holly Stump of Ipswitch, Mass. has been named a recipient of the AKC® Community Achievement Awards for her efforts to educate legislators about the dangers of breed-specific legislation. Massachusetts Federation of Dog Clubs and Responsible Dog Owners, a group in which she serves as board member, nominated Stump. […]
https://www.akc.org/press-releases/akc-honors-massachusetts-fancier-holly-stump-with-a-community-achievem/
| June 15, 2006