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Expert Advice: Feature
Labrador Retriever ‘Rosco’ Wins Uniformed Service K-9 Award for Canine Excellence
Labrador Retriever 'Rosco' is the 2024 winner of the Uniformed Service K-9 Award for Canine Excellence. He is one of five extraordinary ACE winners.
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| December 17, 2024
Expert Advice: Feature
Five Inspiring Dogs Honored With 2024 AKC Award for Canine Excellence
These five dogs were crowned the winners of the 2024 Awards for Canine Excellence.
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| December 17, 2024
Expert Advice: Lifestyle
German Shepherd Dog Facts You May Not Know
Captain Max Emil Friedrich von Stephanitz and his friend Artur Meyer developed the German Shepherd Dog in the mid-19th century. The creators wanted a...
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| April 1, 2024
Expert Advice: Dog Breeds
Belgian Malinois History: From Livestock Herding Dog to Versatile Companion
Intelligent and curious, the Belgian Malinois is a tireless worker who maintains a lifelong attachment to their owner. Learn about the breed's history.
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| March 18, 2024
Expert Advice: News
Labrador Retriever ‘Queue’ Wins Uniformed Service K-9 Award for Canine Excellence
"Queue" is an electronic detection K-9 Lab with the Greenville County Sheriff's Office. She helps convict child abusers and traffickers as part of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit.
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| December 11, 2023
Expert Advice: News
Five Remarkable Dogs Honored With 2022 AKC Awards for Canine Excellence
After the airing of the popular special AKC Heroes: 2022 Awards for Canine Excellence on ESPN2, the AKC is excited to share the winners of this year’s AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence (ACE). These annual awards celebrate loyal, hard-working dogs that have significantly improved the lives of their owners and/or communities. Five remarkable dogs […]
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| December 12, 2022
Expert Advice: News
How to Watch the 2024 AKC Heroes: Awards for Canine Excellence Show
The winners of the 2024 awards will be announced on in a special hour-long broadcast on December 15 on ESPN2 at 6 p.m. EST. Learn more about what each award means.
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| November 17, 2022
Expert Advice: News
Statue Artist to Be Recognized at Philadelphia Dog Show
As a world-renowned sculptor, Susan Bahary brings to life service animals in her monuments, but it was her start in showing Afghan Hounds in the 1970s that inspired her to incorporate the veracious details of her subjects. “I began dabbling with sculpting at age 16,” says Bahary, recipient of the Kennel Club of Philadelphia’s prestigious […]
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| November 2, 2022
Expert Advice: Feature
Seeking Resolutions: Inside Human and Canine Partners’ Search for Lost Souls
In March 2014, a landslide in Oso, Washington, devastated the community of Steelhead Haven, destroying 49 homes and other buildings and killing 43 people. Suzanne Elshult, a Search and Rescue volunteer, was deployed to Oso with her yellow Labrador Retriever Keb. “We were standing on a pile of rubble, and I deployed Keb on a […]
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| October 26, 2022
Expert Advice: AKC Family Dog
The Lasting Impact of the Dog Heroes of 9/11
About 300 dog-handler search teams responded to 9/11, but only about 100 were prepared for the size of the disaster at Ground Zero. Since then, the need for search-and-rescue dogs and therapy dogs has only increased.
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| September 7, 2022