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The Kennel Club Accreditation Scheme for Instructors in Dog Training and Canine Behaviour (KCAI) set another very significant milestone in its history at Crufts 2013 with the launch of the new KCAI Career Zone which was set up in association with...
The news that the Assured Breeder Scheme has now received accreditation from UKAS (the United Kingdom Accreditation Service) must have been warmly welcomed in Clarges Street.
THE WAY my deadlines fall, this column will appear more than a month after Crufts 2013, but I do want to return to the show. As one of the team who bring our world to the general public via television coverage, this year thankfully returned to...
Christmas isn’t my most-favourite time of the year but one thing I do really look forward to over the festive break is the arrival and reading of my Dog World annual. I love seeing the beautifully photographed dogs and reading about the great...
DESPITE all the snow, rain, wind and other inclement conditions the British Association for German Shepherd Dogs (BAGSD) Tewkesbury Trial went ahead, finishing over the Easter weekend with judge Paul Adams finding his winner in Tony Lockyer and WT...
THE FIRST championship show of the year was due to be held over the Easter weekend, the Midlands Border Collie Club, which was to have taken place on Saturday March 30, with the club’s open show on Sunday 31st.
WHEN I WAS living on the south coast it was such a long journey to get to Scotland that I have only been up there once to teach a workshop. So when the offer of teaching some workshops in Scotland came up last year I decided to accept the offer as...
YET MORE sensible ideas to help Florence the Cairn come, first of all, from Mollie Rayment of the Wishwood Labradors in Norfolk, who also has a Lhasa bitch.
Baroness Thatcher, the Iron Lady, has been laid to rest after a life that has assured her place in history. I make no comment here of her efforts as the political animal in the halls of parliament, I am more interested in her association with dogs...
Dog behaviour has been making the headlines again recently and, sadly, for all the wrong reasons. My thoughts are with those who have been affected by recent dog attacks but, in my opinion, what we do need to keep in perspective is that events...
From the feedback I get from readers I know that one of the most popular artists whose work I feature from time to time in the column is Maud Earl – so here goes with another one.
Vaccination has become a controversial subject over the past 20 years driven by concerns about vaccine safety. This echoes the speculation in human medicine, which peaked around 15 years ago, questioning the safety of the measles, mumps and...
