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Table of Contents February 2013 Volume 130, Number 2 Table of Contents AKC News 2 President’s Letter • 3 Updates • 7 Times Past • 8 Dog People •33 Secretary’s Pages Breed Columns Hounds Terriers 9 Afghan Hounds 18 Airedale Terriers 9 Basenjis 20 American Staffordshire 10 Basset Hounds Terriers 11 Bloodhounds 20 Australian Terriers 12 Borzoi 21 Bedlington Terriers 12 Dachshunds 21 Border Terriers 13 English Foxhounds 22 Bull Terriers 13 Ibizan Hounds 23 Smooth Fox Terriers 14 Norwegian Elkhounds 23 Wire Fox Terriers 15 Otterhounds 24 Glen of Imaal Terriers 15 Petits Bassets Griffons 24 Irish Terriers Vendéens 25 Kerry Blue Terriers 16 Pharaoh Hounds 25 Lakeland Terriers 17 Salukis 26 Manchester Terriers 17 Scottish Deerhounds 27 Miniature Bull Terriers 27 Norfolk Terriers 28 Norwich Terriers 29 Parson Russell Terriers 29 Scottish Terriers 30 Sealyham Terriers 30 Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers 31 Staffordshire Bull Terriers 31 Welsh Terriers 32 West Highland White Terriers * Links to AKC Parent Clubs appear following Secretary’s Pages * BREED COLUMNS SCHEDULE Sporting and Working Hound and Terrier Toy, Non-Sporting, January, April, July, February, May, August, and Herding and October and November March, June, September, and December GZ PRESIDENT’S LETTER ext month, the first-ever AKC Companion Events Extravaganza will be held March 15 to 17 at Tulsa, Oklahoma, featuring the Nbrand-new AKC Rally National Competition, the 2013 National Obedience Championship (formerly, the National Obedience Invitational), and the 2013 AKC National Agility Championship. We’re expecting more than 1,500 obedient and agile dogs who worked hard to qualify to attend the three events. AKC Rally National Competition The inaugural event on March 15 is open to 100 dogs in each of four classes—Novice, Advanced, Excellent, and Rally Advanced Excellent. Dogs will compete multiple times, and cumulative scores and times will be used to determine placements in each of the four classes. We look forward to making this new event a success for many years to come. The AKC National Obedience and Agility Championships demon - strate the highest level of training and teamwork between dog and handler and are the culmination of thousands of trials held throughout the year. Dogs must qualify at the highest levels of competition in order to compete. The top obedience dogs in the country based on OTCH points and place - ments at AKC Obedience Regional Events will show off their skills at scent discrimination, retrieving, heeling, and more as they compete for the presti - gious National Obedience Champion (NOC) title. And after thousands of agility runs and multiple rounds of competition, we’ll crown 11 new AKC National Agility Champions (six height classes) and AKC Preferred National Champions (five height classes). After 2013, the combined “Extravaganza” will rotate to different locations around the country. We’re thrilled that we’ll be able to showcase the best com - petitors in the country as we demonstrate to the public the fun and excitement of AKC companion events. If you won’t be able to make it to Tulsa, bookmark Facebook and akc.org, where we’ll post results, photos, and updates throughout the weekend. “Extravaganza” is the only word big enough See the Companion Events pages at akc.org for full details of each event. to hold what AKC Companion Events has C K planned for March. Sincerely, A © T O I L L E - T F O R C A S I L : M O T T Dennis B. Sprung O B ; President and CEO C K A © A C N A I B L L E S S U R : P We’d love to hear from you about what you think about our organization and our staff. Please write to us at [email protected] O T AKC GAZETTE • 2 • FEBRUARY 2013 GZ EDITED BY BUD BOCCONE “America’s Dog” catches Poodle in all-time Lreg. ranks; big adogs contibsnue climb Catch 22 NEW YORK —During a January 30 press event at AKC headquarters, it was announced that the Labrador Retriever topped individual-dog registrations for 2012. It was the 22nd straight year atop the annual rankings for the Lab, tying the Poodle (1960–1982) for the longest reign as registrations champ. The 2012 statistics indicate a continuing trend toward big breeds: The Bulldog surged into the top five, bumping the little Yorkshire Terrier into sixth place; the Golden Retriever overtook the Beagle for third; and the Rottweiler passed the Dachshund to take ninth. “The popularity of the pintsized, portable companion just gave way to a litter of larger breeds in the top 10,” the AKC’s Lisa Peterson told the assembled press. “These pre - dictable, durable, steady breeds, like Labs and Goldens, are great with kids and offer the whole family more dog to love.” For the full rankings, visit akc.org/reg/dogreg_stats.cfm. MOVE IT ON OVER “Move over little dog ’cause the big dog’s 2012 Top 10 2011 Top 10 moving in.” —Hank Williams 1. Labrador Retriever 1. Labrador Retriever • The Mastiff (34 to 26) and Bullmastiff (47 2. German Shepherd 2. German Shepherd to 39) maintained their steady rise of recent Dog Dog years; more recently-recognized big breeds 3. Golden Retriever 3. Beagle like the Cane Corso (67 to 60), Neapolitan 4. Beagle 4. Golden Retriever Mastiff (116 to 112), and Dogue de Bordeaux (69 to 67) continued climbing. 5. Bulldog 5. Yorkshire Terrier • Bull breeds maintained their upward 6. Yorkshire Terrier 6. Bulldog trend: Bull Terrier (79 to 51), Staffordshire 7. Boxer 7. Boxer Bull Terrier (91 to 76), and Miniature Bull 8. Poodle 8. Poodle Terrier (132 to 126). 9. Rottweiler 9. Dachshund • The Chihuahua (14 to 18), Pomeranian C K (17 to 19), and Pug (26 to 30) were among A 10. Dachshund 10. Rottweiler © / A small breeds to slip in the rankings; the C N A I Havanese (31 to 28) and Affenpinscher (139 B L L to 138) made modest gains. E S S U R AKC GAZETTE • 3 • FEBRUARY 2013 GZ FROM THE CHAIRMAN hortly after the end of World War II, a family purchased a dog and registered it with the American Kennel Club in their daughter’s name. That Sregistration decision was certainly a nice way of saying to their daughter, “This dog is yours to keep, care for, and love throughout its life.” The dog and child formed a bond which left an indelible memory with the woman into adult - hood. Decades later, the woman contacted the AKC hoping to find a connection to her childhood dog. Kellie Sager, an AKC customer-service representative, was able to find and order both the registration and the pedigree for the customer’s beloved dog. When Kellie gave the caller this good news, the woman was over - whelmed and cried at having something tangible that linked to her memories of Of course, no one lays on the “Disney treatment” as lavishly as Disney—but what can we all do to make customer relations more “assertively friendly”? her dog—her name on the registration of her childhood friend. Every breeder, owner, exhibitor, judge, customers must have the same commit - For those of us in the fancy, registra - and club might be regulated by us in ment to serve their customers. The best tion has very practical purposes. It both some manner, but they are also our cus - example of doing that right comes from records the dog forever in the studbook tomers. It has been said that the purpose the Disney parks: Make every customer and opens myriad options for the dog of a business is to create a customer who feel important by being assertively and owner’s participation in the world of creates customers. It is a concept that friendly, something we have all experi - the AKC. For the rest of the people who fully works at the AKC. enced as a guest at Disney. Imagine the register their dogs with AKC, that regis - impact on our sport if every exhibitor tration can mean so much more. And What Would Walt Do? got that “Disney treatment” from every - there is one group of AKC staff that Our commitment to serving our cus - one at every event. I am very interested knows this far better than anyone: the tomers manifests in the many additional in hearing what you do to deliver that customer service representatives. services the AKC makes available at no “Disney treatment” to exhibitors. Please Led by Glenn Lycan, the 29 dedicated charge, including Breeder Online share it with me and indicate if I have people in this department answer about Record Keeping, breed information and permission to pass it on to others. 440,000 inquiries (85 percent are phone Find a Puppy to assist prospective own - Finally, as Benjamin Franklin said, calls) throughout the year, and most of ers, online access for exhibitors to review “Well done is better than well said.” If the calls address some registration ques - points earned and event results, the you have suggestions about how AKC tion. Knowing how important those online competition management system can improve customer service, please issues are to the callers, AKC manage - (OCMS) to assist clubs in planning and send them to me. ment established complex and stringent managing events, and event liability cov - As always, your comments are wel - objectives to ensure the best possible erage for judges. come at [email protected]. S N caller experience. Last year, the CSRs In fact, customer service is just a day Sincerely, O M M met those goals over 90 percent of the in, day out, ongoing, never-ending, O C A I time, a remarkable performance.
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