AKC News

New Obedience "Pre-Classes" Announced
AKC announces new optional titling classes for obedience. The Pre-Novice, Pre-Open and Pre-Utility classes have no Group exercises and the jumps are set to half the height of the dog at the withers.  These new classes will be offered beginning July 2013.  The rules for these classes are at this link and are to be printed as an insert to the current Obedience Rules book:

Obedience “Pre Classes”

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AKC Honors Canine Heroes With New Urban Search and Rescue Titles

Today, five-year-old English Springer Spaniel Pride ‘N Joy’s Juno-Lupa, better known as "Juno," and her handler Beckie Stanevich, AKC Delegate for the Mountaineer Kennel Club, became the first dog and handler team to receive the new American Kennel Club Urban Search and Rescue (SAR) title. The pair, which serves on FEMA’s Ohio Task Force One and deploys to federal disaster locations, was honored at the September AKC Delegates meeting.  more at this link

Podcast discussing Search and Rescue with Becky and with Ramapo SAR  click here for link

Taconic Hills Kennel Club Membership Application

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