Badger Kennel Club

08/25/2024

08/21/2024

https://www.badgerkennelclub.com/events/all-breed-obedience-rally-trials/

08/12/2024

Important fire safety information for us as pet owners. Lithium ion batteries and the dog that chewed one. And lived to bark at it!

BE CAREFUL, you may have items in your home that can lead to a disaster if not properly handled!we responded to a house fire in May that was caused by a dama...

06/24/2024

Rally Run Thru at Badger Kennel Club

Sunday July 7th at 9am

All levels available

$5/run

Get ready for nationals or your next trial!

Email Chelsea at [email protected] to pre-register. Please send dog’s name, breed and level.

05/15/2024

Drop-ins at BKC! Come join us!

05/03/2024

RALLY RUN THROUGHS May 26th at 11am!!

📍Badger Kennel Club, Deforest WI

Great prep for rally nationals and upcoming trials 🎉

Sign-up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040F4AAEAD28A6F49-49484441-bkcrally

04/13/2024

AKC Fast CAT https://www.badgerkennelclub.com/akc-fast-cat-trial/?fbclid=IwAR1PWjJPNxvNSdNXldV-UpAcVKQ6hW4GWAG7Wmolps-IWwp6UCnmEaRB32s

You no longer have to wonder how fast your dog can run. FAST CAT® – which stands for Coursing Ability Test – is a timed 100-yard dash where dogs run one at a time, chasing a lure.

04/06/2024

Are you and your dog ready to pass the AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) test and/or test for an AKC Trick Dog title?

On Saturday, April 20 (morning) the Badger Kennel Club has limited openings for testing.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION is required: Email [email protected] and identify what you’d like to test for, your dog's name and breed(s).

Cost: $25 for CGC, $10 for tricks

If you have any questions about testing, please contact Lynda Nelson at [email protected]

CGC is the entry-level test that demonstrates polite manners.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/essential-skills-for-every-dog/

AKC Trick Dog: If you have a CGC, or pass the CGC on Saturday, only 5 tricks are required for the Novice level (otherwise, 10 tricks are required). Note that treats are allowed at the novice level as a lure, and a reward. https://www.akc.org/sports/trick-dog/about-trick-dog/

As part of the AKC Canine Good Citizen test, there are 10 essential skills that every dog should master. Here are the test items.

04/06/2024

Rally and beginner agility run throughs at Badger Kennel Club on APRIL 20th!! Please come join us from 1-4pm, you may signup for unlimited runs! I will have fundraising items such as tugs, stickers, shirts, etc. and other fun things too! All profits go towards Isabelle and Thunder’s trip to Belgium this July on the Junior Open Agility World Championships TEAM USA! Sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040F4AAEAD28A6F49-48878172-bkcrally

03/18/2024

Congratulations to these Badger Kennel Club teams who qualified for AKC Rally National Championships!

03/13/2024

Well, here's something we all know. Another study showing that interacting with dogs makes us feel better. However, the study did use a WELL TRAINED Standard Poodle as the interaction dog. So the key here is to sign up for your training classes now! (But I have a feeling our BKC President is going to suggest it was likely just the breed.)

(CNN) — If you decompress by playing with dogs or checking their adorable videos on social media, you might be onto something.

03/11/2024

Badger Kennel Club’s own Thunder and Isabelle McKee were selected to compete in Belgium this year for the Junior Open Agility World Championships. They will be headed overseas in July to represent Team USA! Isabelle started agility 9 years ago, but Thunder is almost 4 and has had so many accomplishments already. BKC is excited to see what’s to come for team Thunder and Isabelle at JOAWC!

02/03/2024

2024 WI Dog Fair at the Alliant Energy Center, November 10, 2024. (Click the link)

Meet the breeds! Over 100 different breeds will be represented at the show where you can ask questions of people knowledgeable about each breed.

02/01/2024

SAVE THE DATE! November 10, 2024

01/31/2024

BADGER KENNEL CLUB
Obedience and Rally Run-throughs
Get ready for our upcoming trials!
BKC Training Center, 5925 Haase Rd, DeForest, WI

01/16/2024

REMINDER that we are having the first program of the year coming up this Thursday, January 18 @ 6:30 pm:

Dr. ELIZABETH STOKES has been a small animal veterinarian for 36 years and is a member of the charter class from the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She has owned and operated 2 small animal practices in Fitchburg. Special interests during those years were feline medicine and senior pet health care management. While attending a national veterinary conference 14 years ago Dr. Stokes heard a talk on a revolutionary approach treating chronic disease. She remembers being stunned watching the before and after videos of patients who had been treated with stem cell therapy. Over the next few years this became her focus and passion. She has since sold Odyssey Veterinary Care but still works at the facility to provide regenerative medicine options for cats and dogs.

Stem cell therapy (SCT) uses the innate ability of these cells to reduce inflammation and actually replace damaged tissues. They are cells that can become whatever tissue is needed, e.g. bone, cartilage, nerve, ligament, muscle, skin. There are many active stem cells available in young animals and humans but over time they become less active. To utilize stem cell therapy these cells are collected, concentrated and activated and then administered directly into areas of chronic disease (e.g. joints to treat arthritis) or administered IV for disease like inflammatory bowel disease.

Elizabeth also enjoys being a member of a triathlon training group and competing in marathons and triathlons around the country and the world, including a race in Finland last summer. She also really enjoys her lively and challenging granddaughters and finds being a grandparent really awesome and tons more fun than being a parent

01/08/2024

All-breed Obedience & Rally Trials
UPCOMING RALLY & OBEDIENCE TRIALS

12/13/2023

GIVE A GIFT CERTIFICATE TO A DOG LOVER...

12/04/2023

Are you and your dog ready to pass the AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) test?

On December 16th the Badger Kennel Club has limited openings to test for CGC and AKC Community Canine (known as CGC Advanced, or CGCA, if you've previously passed CGC). Time TBA but sometime in the morning.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION is required: Email [email protected]

Cost: $25.

If you have any questions about testing for CGCA, or CGC, please let me know.

CGC is the entry-level test that demonstrates polite manners.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/essential-skills-for-every-dog/

The CGC-Advanced, or Community, tests similar skills but the test is conducted out in the community in real-life situations instead of a simulated and controlled setting.

Thank you, Sue Hill

Badger Kennel Club instructor

https://www.akc.org/products-services/training-programs/canine-good-citizen/akc-community-canine/

As part of the AKC Canine Good Citizen test, there are 10 essential skills that every dog should master. Here are the test items.

11/22/2023

Rally Run Through on December 27th.
See the flyer below for more information.
Thank you Chelsea!

11/11/2023

The Canine Good Citizen Advanced class met at Cabella's today and worked our skills. A highlight was getting pictures with Santa!

10/21/2023

The Hybrid Obedience Class is now open for registration. This 8 week class will start on November 2nd with 3 video classes and then we meet in person. Then we video for 3 more weeks ending with another in person classs
The in person classes will be held on Thursday mornings or Saturday afternoons depending on the students preference.
See the BKC website for further information or to register.

10/08/2023

This is a black and white photo of Morris Frank and Buddy disembarking from a ship. It is thanks to Morris’s efforts that guide dog handlers are permitted the same right to travel as anyone else.

On November 5, 1927, the Saturday Evening Post published an article written by Dorothy Harrison Eustis about a dog training program she had visited in Potsdam, Germany, where dogs – called “blind leaders” – were being trained to guide blinded veterans of World War I. Dorothy, a breeder and trainer of German shepherds, was initially skeptical that dogs could be trained to guide a blind person. But she came away a believer.

After the article was published, she received numerous letters from people who were blind, asking for guide dogs. A letter from a 19-year-old college student and traveling salesman named Morris Frank stood out:

“Is what you say really true? If so, I want one of those dogs! And I am not alone. Thousands of blind like me abhor being dependent on others. Help me and I will help them. Train me and I will bring back my dog and show people here how a blind man can absolutely be on his own.”

Dorothy, who was born in Philadelphia, was living in Switzerland at the time. She told Morris she would train a dog for him – if he could get to Switzerland.

“Mrs. Eustis,” Morris replied, “to get back my independence, I’d go to hell!”

But it was no easy task for a person who was blind to travel from the United States to Switzerland in 1928. He booked passage on a ship, not as a passenger, but as a “package.” Kept locked in his room except when escorted by a member of the crew, Morris said he felt like a prisoner.

“At ten, he exercised me as if I were a horse, methodically trotting me around the deck,” Morris wrote in First Lady of The Seeing Eye. “Then he deposited me in a steamer chair. If some friendly passenger invited me to take a stroll, we got only a few feet before my keeper ran up breathless, grasped my elbow, and steered me to my seat again where he’d keep an eye on me.”

Morris never forgot what it felt like to be treated like cargo. “The experience angered and frustrated me and made me all the more determined to undergo any hardship to overcome dependency on others,” Morris wrote.

After being matched with Buddy and returning to the United States, Morris would spend the next 50 years not just promoting Seeing Eye dogs, but advocating for the right of a person with a guide dog to go anywhere a member of the public is allowed to go.

09/14/2023

Badger Kennel Club's Fast Cat Event

09/13/2023

(Heel to Music)
Check out this new class being offered! Karen Johnson will be the instructor for this class. Should be alot of fun!

Would you like to have fun heeling get some mood elevating exercise, and improve your dog’s heeling skills? Join us for Heel To Music! This is a just for fun class and will be very informal, but you’ll accomplish training skills and build your teamwork. This 6 week class will be limited to 8 teams, and all work will be done on leash with treat or toy motivators. This class will not be suitable for reactive dogs. Would you like to have fun heeling get some mood elevating exercise, and improve your dog’s heeling skills? Join us for Heel To Music! This is a just for fun class and will be very informal, but you’ll accomplish training skills and build your teamwork. This 6 week class will be limited to 8 teams, and all work will be done on leash with treat or toy motivators. This class will not be suitable for reactive dogs.

09/06/2023

The obedience classes are starting up again in October. Greg Altman and Nicole Gill will be the instructors😊
The classes will fill fast so register soon if you are interested.
A brief description of the class is listed below:

Obedience is a six-week beginning obedience class where students will be learning novice obedience skills. This class will be taught using positive reinforcement. Students will be taught techniques using shaping and luring. This class is geared towards students who'd like to title their dogs as students will run a Novice course in preparation for competition.

All novice obedience skills will be taught. Many teams take this class more than one time to learn each individual skill and then to improve

08/15/2023

Mark Your Calendars!! THURSDAY AUGUST 17, 2023

Badger Kennel Club General Membership Meeting
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Badger Kennel Club Building
5925 Haase Road, DeForest, WI 53532

Program: 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm
Dock Diving: Learning to Jump & Compete
Our very own Missi Roland will be talking about how to get involved with Dock Diving, learning to jump and compete. This sport is open to all breeds and sizes of dogs. A great seasonal activity (in our area) for you and your dog. Missi has spent countless hours in the water and land with her dogs to hone in the skills needed for Dock Diving success. She can educate you on the throwing techniques, several that she has learned from a former MLB pitcher.

Missi is an accomplished Dog Trainer, competitor in many performance sports and a competitive Dock Diver for 9 years. Missi has studied both fresh water and salt water “Water Intoxication” to recognize symptoms and aide in the treatment of this condition when it occurs. She is also becoming well versed in ways to avoid it from happening. Missi spends all her time devoted to her Border Collies and Belgian Malinois.

07/30/2023

Novice Obedience class is canceled for today. Joan is still driving back from the dog show. She'll reschedule for a different date.