Mississippi State Kennel Club

11/27/2025

11/27/2025

The annual National Dog Show is arguably the one of the best parts of Thanksgiving. Here's everything you need on how to watch the National Dog Show.

11/27/2025

Rushing your dog to the emergency vet 🚨 is NOT how you want to spend turkey day! 🦃

Keep this list handy and remind your friends!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hzJDXq

11/27/2025

A Long, Low Masterpiece

From the AKC Museum of the Dog, here’s a famous Dachshund champion from yesteryear, Ch. Schalk von Verderhavelstrand, painted in oils by master canine portraitist Clarence C. Fawcett in 1935. It’s one of several classic oil paintings featured in our recent YouTube slideshow “Done in Oils.”

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Velázquez are but a few masters who immortalized their subjects in oils. Within the niche of dog painting, or “sporting art,” such artists as Maud Earl, Gustav Muss-Arnolt, and Arthur Wardle were the among the masters of this versatile but demanding technique. See the slideshow at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a1h3l47zmc

November Gazette:https://images.akc.org/pdf/gazette/november-2025.pdf

Back issues: https://www.akc.org/products-services/magazines/akc-gazette/

Gazette Gallery: The Long Stay—The Birth of AKC Obedience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7VIe8p7uzg

If you don’t already subscribe to the Gazette, you can do so here: https://www.akc.org/subscribe/ It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s free!

11/27/2025

11/24/2025

🐶 Wondering why the National Dog Show is America’s favorite Thanksgiving tradition? ❤️

Because here, it’s not just about competition — it’s about community, connection, and celebrating our amazing four-legged friends! 🐕✨

🎬 From the show ring to your TV screen, every wag, bark, and bow is packed with heart. 💙

11/23/2025

💥5️⃣ SHOWS FOR DACHSHUNDS, TOYS & BASSETS 💥 6️⃣ SHOWS FOR LABS! 🟢 2026 Magnolia Classic premium list is published. Please share and make plans to join us 🐕💚🐩 Entries close 12-31-25.
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11/23/2025

🟢 2026 Magnolia Classic premium list is published. Please share and make plans to join us 🐕💚🐩 Entries close 12-31-25.
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11/23/2025

✨We are excited to announce a new show coming to Mississippi in 2026! ✨

This 3 day show will be held by the Tupelo Kennel Club and Memphis Kennel Club in Corinth, MS at the Crossroads Arena on November 13-15, 2026!

We hope to have you join us for a fun show!

More information will follow on our new FB page! 🤩

11/23/2025

Anyone not familiar with the way different sheepdog breeds work will likely miss the "master class" being demonstrated in the 4 minute video at this link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS-nYBQkvWo). Can you spot what this 25 month old Briard is doing?

To an untrained eye, the dog just seems to be walking back and forth, back and forth. Nothing to see here, they’ll think to themselves. Experienced herding people will know, however, that the Briard is “working the graze,” a classic tending style of herding in which the dog acts as a living fence, quietly patrolling the flock’s boundaries to keep grazing stock in, and any potential trouble out. This style is “classic Briard.” As the Briard Club of America itself explains, the Briard acts as a living fence, a boundary, left with the flock to keep them in the harvested part of the field, away from the crops they must not touch. When it is time, the Briard gathers his flock, and moves it back to the farmyard. – allows the animals to spread out naturally to feed, while the dog’s steady presence ensures their safety and containment.

As the dog patrols the edges of the flock/herd, he is, in essence, “drawing a box” around the stock. As the dog in the video demonstrates, he is defining and maintaining an invisible fence line with his body. The owner of the sheep may have a mental image of where the stock are allowed to graze, but it’s the dog’s job to make the shape real by where he or she walks and stands. The sheep may be munching away, but they are well aware that “inside is OK, outside is not,” and it’s the Briard that has established the ground rules. Instead of weaving through the sheep, the dog works the edges of the group – up one side and back again. When the dog goes across the front, down the other side, behind them, then back again, this path traces a “box” around the flock.

From a distance, this might look like the dog is meandering, but make no mistake, that dog is constantly redefining that invisible fence, and it’s a thing of beauty. While this style may lack the sweeping outruns like a Border Collie on a gather, it is control without drama. A step here, a turn there – small actions that maintain the shape of the box.

The Briard demonstrates that true herding mastery is not in speed or flash, but in thoughtful, constant guidance—a subtle art that keeps the flock safe, fed, and perfectly contained.

Image of a working Briard by Aleksandr Zotov/iStock

11/22/2025

🟢 2026 Magnolia Classic premium list is published:
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