Fargo - Moorhead Kennel Club

11/18/2024

Dear Valued Agility Training Facility,



Attention Junior Handlers!!!



The Minnesota Agility Club is available to help Junior Handlers!!

MAC is proud to sponsor the Ruth VanKeuren Memorial Fund for MAC Junior Handlers, which promotes junior handler attendance and competition at national championships or training seminars by helping to reduce the financial burden on families.



Qualifications for Juniors seeking scholarship funds:



Compete at a MAC trial (USDAA, AKC, NADAC, UKI or CPE)
Volunteer at a MAC trial and at another trial (in a non-Junior Handler class)
Be 18 years old or younger at the time of the competition or seminar for which the funds are sought
Be a current MAC Member
Live in Minnesota or Western Wisconsin


Please let any potential candidates know this awesome program is available and what the requirements are. There are currently funds available.



Please contact [email protected], macagility.org (Junior Handlers) or Julie Heller, President for more information and an application.



Let’s help welcome new handlers to our amazing agility community!!



Thank you!

Promoting dog agility in Minnesota

11/18/2024

More from the Master

Collie Ch. Braegate Model of Bellhaven, 1943
This photo is among the Rudolph Tauskey classics contained in this month’s YouTube Gazette Gallery slideshow, “Tauskey’s Champions, Part 2” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDh5fl1a-RA

Picking up where “Tauskey’s Champions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7djD8mBlvQ left off, this slideshow series presents portraits of great show dogs of the 20th century, taken by dogdom’s photo master.

About image: This Tauskey head study of Model, an English import who was a big winner of the 1940s, was published in Milo Denlinger’s book The Complete Collie.

According to Denlinger, writing in 1949, “The Bellhaven Kennels of Mrs. Florence B. Ilch at Red Bank, New Jersey, is the premier kennel of Collies in the world today. … Through a quarter of a century Mrs. Ilch has established this preeminence, but it has never been so absolute as to drive from the field of competition other breeders and exhibitors whose establishments are of smaller magnitude.

“Mrs. Ilch would probably be the first to admit that the activities of a host of rival breeders of Collies force her constantly to new efforts to maintain that Collie vanguard which her great dogs have attained.”

This digital image was struck directly from a precious 81-year-old glass negative in the AKC Gazette collection.

The November AKC Gazette is online and ready for download:https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-origin-etr.akc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/08144019/rev-AKC-Gazette-November-2024.pdf

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

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

Happy weekend! We’ll see you around the rings.

11/15/2024

Strong, agile and full of life, the Belgian Laekenois (pronounced "Lak-in-wah") is one of four native dogs of Belgium.

Why do you love the breed?

11/15/2024

Presenting Our Sport’s Past—In Living Color!

1968: Register of Merit breeder Maria Aspuru and her Lhasa Apso Ch. Drax Ni-Ma Me, co-owned with A.O. Rossie. The Florida-based Aspuru-Rossie partnership produced and exhibited many fine Lhasas, including Ch. Karma Frosty Knight of Everglo ROM. Owner-handled by Rossie, Frosty was a multi-BIS dog, 1967’s top Lhasa, and a Westminster breed winner.

Like so many of our collection’s color photos from the 1960s and ’70s, the original print of this Earl Graham portrait is badly faded and discolored. It has been restored to its original Kodachrome brilliance by our resident image doctor, Chris Espiritu.

Download the November AKC Gazette: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-origin-etr.akc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/08144019/rev-AKC-Gazette-November-2024.pdf

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

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11/08/2024

Common dog behavioral issues like jumping or digging can be addressed through positive training methods that encourage better behavior.

11/08/2024

Kilgarth’s Halcyon Days

For the upcoming November Gazette, we’re preparing a sequel to our popular “Tauskey’s Champions” YouTube slideshow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7djD8mBlvQ&t=3sIrish.

Among the images we’re considering for “Tauskey’s Champions II” is this lovely head shot made by Rudolph Tauskey in the early 1930s.

Wolfhound Felixstowe Kilgarth (b. 1926) was a founding sire at the Halcyon Kennels of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Clark, at Goshen, New York. Halcyon was a leading U.S. kennel in the breed when the Gazette’s Arthur Frederick Jones visited Goshen in 1935:

“The Clarks had long nursed a desire to own some Irish Wolfhounds. The big, awe-inspiring dogs appealed to them, not for any logical reason, but just because these hounds were impressive and possessed of marvelous temperaments. Yet no opportunity had been presented for the owners of Halcyon to indulge their desire until 1927.

“Mr. and Mrs. Clark were on an extended European trip at the time. They had visited practically all the kennels in England, and some on the Continent. In the du Prieure Kennels, at Aixe-les-Bains, France, they had seen a splendid lot of hounds. Some of this strain had been used for boar-hunting, and the dogs were all upstanding, well-conditioned specimens.

“Unfortunately, the particular dog desired by the Clarks was not for sale.

“Mr. and Mrs. Clark then went to Geneva, Switzerland. While there, they wired another offer for the Wolfhound. Apparently, this was having no effect, when, just a few minutes before the owners of Halcyon were due to take the train for the coast and their ship, there came a telephone call. It was to the effect that they might purchase Chaliapine du Prieure. They delayed their sailing; bought the dog; also acquired a bitch, and the mighty Ch. Felixstowe Kilgarth, which carried the best blood of a long line of winners bred at the Felixstowe Kennels in England.”

Download the October AKC Gazette: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-origin-etr.akc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/07102516/AKC-Gazette-October-2024-rev.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR06fahHxe34UnU0CTY4WVpf2UCyQXGak1vBUAi-VW6c1JaUdRp-xodSv5E_aem_tAZlymSGwNlxF_6ytvuCHA

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

Browse back issues: https://www.akc.org/products-services/magazines/akc-gazette/
AKC Gazette Digital Archive: https://library.akc.org/

October Gazette Gallery slideshow: “The Age of Elegance—Gazette covers of the 2000s” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeCrRcReNMY

(painting: AKC Collection)

11/08/2024

The November AKC Gazette is now online and ready for download:https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-origin-etr.akc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/08144019/rev-AKC-Gazette-November-2024.pdf

(Cover photo: Standard Schnauzer/Joan Ludwig)

The 156-page November Gazette features a full slate of Hound and Terrier Group breed columns.
Also:
Secretary’s Page—Newly-revised Keeshond Breed Standard, effective Jan. 1.
“Feed Your Breed”—Purina’s PPCP program helps parent clubs build a healthier future for their breeds, and all dogs.
“Understanding Senior Frailty”—A leading researcher discusses treatment and quality-of-life decisions in elder dogs.
Updates—Last call for ANC entries; ANC premium lists; CHF cancer-research match fund; AKC Museum’s new acquisition.
“Tauskey’s Champions, Part 2”—The sequel to a popular YouTube slideshow.
“The Pride of the Marines”—A Veterans’ Day special “Times Past.”
“Dog People”—David Frei

If you don’t already subscribe to the Gazette, you can do so at https://www.akc.org/subscribe/ —It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s free!
Browse back issues: https://www.akc.org/products-services/magazines/akc-gazette/
Happy weekend! We’ll see you around the rings.

11/08/2024

Make your dog your personal trainer. 😁

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11/08/2024

A dignified and mellow hunting companion of kings, the Clumber Spaniel is the largest of the AKC flushing spaniels.

Why do you love the breed?

10/19/2024

Orlando Updates

Entries are open for the 2024 AKC National Championship presented by Royal Canin, which returns to Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) North/South Concourse on December 14 and 15.

Also, entries open for the AKC/Royal Canin National All-Breed Puppy and Junior Stakes, taking place on Friday, December 13, and the AKC National Owner-Handled Series Finals on December 13 and 14.

Entries close November 6.

PREMIUM LISTS
AKC National Championship
https://www.onofrio.com/plist/xalc1pl.pdf
AKC/Royal Canin All-Breed Puppy/Junior Stakes
https://www.onofrio.com/plist/xalc1pl.pdf
AKC National Owner-Handled Series Finals
https://www.onofrio.com/plist/xalc3pl.pdf

Download the October AKC Gazette:https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-origin-etr.akc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/07102516/AKC-Gazette-October-2024-rev.pdf

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

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

AKC Gazette Digital Archive: https://library.akc.org/

October Gazette Gallery slideshow: “The Age of Elegance—Gazette covers of the 2000s” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeCrRcReNMY

Happy weekend! We’ll see you around the rings.

(Stephaniellen photo/AKC)

10/19/2024

Large and powerful, the Dogo Argentino is a pack-hunting dog, bred for the pursuit of big-game such as wild boar and puma, and possesses the strength, intelligence and quick responsiveness of a serious athlete.

Why do you love the breed?

10/19/2024

10/12/2024

https://www.wcnc.com/article/weather/hurricane/helene/rescue-dog-saves-child-mudslide-helene-hurricane/275-3e04aa8e-597b-4768-a107-d944fc4d965c?fbclid=IwY2xjawF2p31leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYwjAU4vCx2s1Fn3eYjkQwcIh52PGkZwbXDs-5EwijSoCLOc7RC85JYcdg_aem_1R3kILIMQb0Z0tb4Td0AQw

Jamie Parker was lying under the debris, screaming for help but hearing no one.

10/12/2024

Curly-Coated Retriever: 100 Years in AKC

In the October Gazette, we celebrate the AKC centennial year of the Curly-Coated Retriever. In1924, a dog named Knysna Conjurer became the first Curly listed in the American Kennel Club Stud Book. The Curly-Coated Retriever Club of America, the breed’s AKC parent club, was founded in 1979. Included in the feature story is this from Anne Shinkle, our CCRC breed columnist:

“Since acquiring our first Curly-Coated Retriever in the late ’70s, I have given lots of thought to why I am so fond of this breed. David Ferguson says, ‘They are the perfect combination of sporting dog and companion dog,’ which is so true. One can take a Curly out in the field, and she will come home and settle down readily…

“This is a breed that can take advantage of many of the performance activities. My Curlies have been in tracking, agility, upland and hunt tests, all levels of obedience and rally, as well as conformation. I enjoy all these activities with mine. …

“When considering this breed, it is true that a Curly is different from other retriever breeds. They may be somewhat more reserved, and some people might mistake that for indifference. They usually do not go rushing up to strangers, but at the same time they like to meet other people and dogs if they are well socialized. David Ferguson states that one of the reasons that he switched from another retriever breed to the Curly-Coated Retriever in 1998 was that he was looking for a sporting dog that was a bit more reserved. He feels that a Curly fits that need perfectly.”

Download the October AKC Gazette:https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-origin-etr.akc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/07102516/AKC-Gazette-October-2024-rev.pdf

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

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

AKC Gazette Digital Archive: https://library.akc.org/

October Gazette Gallery slideshow: “The Age of Elegance—Gazette covers of the 2000s” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeCrRcReNMY

Happy weekend! We’ll see you around the rings.

(Photo Stephaniellen AKC)

10/11/2024

"Just The Facts" - Pet Emergency Information

Photo Credit: American Kennel Club

http://caninechronicle.com/?p=306284

10/11/2024

Large, athletic hunters who work nights, Black and Tan Coonhounds are friendly, easygoing hounds who love company.

Why do you love the breed?

10/11/2024

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Sit is usually the first people teach their puppies, without thinking about the consequences or why they do it. We wanted to know more about the sit, so many years ago we started the sit study...