It takes more than a dogged spirit to become a member of the Las Vegas Valley Schutzhund Club. The dog club originally started as a breed suitability test for German shepherds. The test would ...

Schutzhund is the German word for "protection dog." It's also the name of a sport in which different breeds of dogs compete, and it's growing in popularity. Schutzhund originally was developed in ...

Moving from the Chicago area to Galesburg in the early 1980s as a young man, Al Govednik wasn't well prepared for the culture shock. Restaurants closed early. Bowling alleys were shut down before ...

NEWARK — Joel Monroe stands behind the German shepherd and pets its coat, while Kyle Krotter faces the dog, stroking its snout. Wearing thick padded overalls, the men seem well-protected from claws ...

Approaching the Chelmsford town limits on Gorham Street, the large sign reading “Abby Kennels” is hard to miss. Here, one can find Kevin Lanouette’s dog training facility. Sitting on an old apple ...

Few people who meet Gloria McCarthy and her dog would guess that she had once been a professional ice skater or that skating and dogs had anything in common. But they do. Training. When McCarthy was a ...

A top dog trainer is planning to bring to Hong Kong a century-old sport that tests canines on how well they can serve and protect their master. Felix Ho Fei-yin, a leading athlete in the German sport ...

Windy Pool's life revolves around dogs and her two daughters. Every Tuesday, the IPO trainer drives to the outskirts of Corpus Christi to Labonte Park to train dogs, most of which are German Sheperds.

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