Are you a dog person?  Experienced, or just beginning? Then join the club!

    Make connections - Dog clubs abound with dog lovers who share common interests of raising, training, breeding, and competing with purebred dogs.
    Gain knowledge - Dog club members are knowledgeable about canine nutrition, health, training, and development.  A dog club is the place to meet experts on your breed of dog and learn the fine arts of showing your dog and participating in agility, obedience, and many other dog events.
    Contribute to your community - Dog clubs strive to promote and protect dogs in their communities.  Club members teach responsible dog ownership by sponsoring training classes, offering responsible breeder locator services, and by participating in rescue networks.   They monitor and provide input for legislation governing responsible dog ownership.

    Based in Boise, Idaho, our Idaho Capital City Kennel Club offers information through our educational programs at monthly meetings, and through our telephone advice and referral system. Our members are interested in purebred dogs registered with the American Kennel Club, and our members exhibit their dogs primarily in conformation, obedience, rally, or agility shows. We meet at 7pm, on the fourth Tuesday of each month except there is no meeting in July, and we have our awards dinner in December.  Interested guests are always welcome!!
Meeting Location - Idaho Fish & Game Building, 600 S. Walnut, Boise, ID -7 pm- go around back to the meeting room entrance (map)
Meeting Date & Program:
    July 27 - No meeting in July
    August 24 - Trish Saras, DVM, discussing Holistic Veterinary Medicine
    September 28 - Our own Alice Peterson, AKC Obedience Judge, discussing what is new in AKC Obedience

What I Learned at the Dog Show....
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If you watch the AKC/Eukanuba Invitational or the Westminster dog shows on TV, you may get the impression that only rich people in fancy clothes with fancy dogs can be part of the dog show world. Nothing could be further from the truth!! You can choose to participate at any level of involvement or expense that suits you - in conformation, in agility, in obedience, or rally. Come to our meetings, come to our events, meet our members to see the real world of dogs and dog shows.

NAIA - the Reasonable View NAIA National Animal Interest Alliance
The Mission of NAIA is to promote the welfare of animals, to strenthen the human-animal bond, and to safeguard the rights of responsible animal owners.

DID YOU KNOW THE AKC . .

is a not-for-profit organization. (unlike any other registry!!)

is the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world.

sponsors more than 21,000 dog events per year, including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, hunt tests, field and earthdog trials, and coonhound events.

began the AKC Companion Animal Recovery (CAR).  As of March, 2009,  3,987,366 companion animals are enrolled in CAR database and 359,991 lost pets have been successfully reunited with their owners  www.akccar.org

conducts more than 5,600 inspections annually to insure the integrity of the AKC registry and monitor care and conditions at kennels across the country.

features a Canine Good Citizen program - A 10 step test that certifies dogs who have good manners at home and in the community.

created and supports the AKC Canine Health Foundation, which funds research projects focusing on the genetics of disease, the canine genome map, and clinical studies.  AKC has donated $22 million to the Canine Health Foundation since 1995.  www.akcchf.org

awards $170,000 in scholarships to veterinary students and vet tech students.

Nearly 5,000 dog clubs in the United States hold affilitated events under the umbrella of the AKC for competition of AKC-registered dogs.  Some are national parent clubs, others local specialty clubs, and still others are devoted to a broad variety of events including agility, obedience, field trials, lure coursing, and herding tests and trials.

Even more information is available at American Kennel Club website: www.akc.org

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ICCKC   P.O. BOX 7133    Boise, ID 83707    (208)388-1514
email: info@icckc.org

 
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