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 work with their dogs primarily in AKC conformation, obedience, rally, or agility events.   We meet at 7pm, on the fourth Tuesday of each month - except we have a picnic rather than a regular meeting in July, and our annual 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)
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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 22,000 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) which has reunited more than 380,000 pets with their owners  www.akccar.org

conducts thousands of inspections annually to monitor care and conditions at kennels across the country and to insure the integrity of the AKC registry.

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 over $20 million to the AKC Canine Health Foundation since 1995.  www.akcchf.org

is the only registry that incorporates health screening results into its permanent dog records, and offers the largest set of DNA programs to verify parentage and genetic identity.

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.

Much 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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