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MARCH 2010<br />
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Contents<br />
FEATURES<br />
30 Your Well-Behaved Pocket Pup<br />
When it comes to training, one size does not fit all.<br />
By Lindsey Kamrath<br />
34 Champions in Miniature<br />
A pair of extraordinary Poodles, immortalized by the<br />
Little Lady Dog Painter.<br />
By Susan Brown<br />
36 Gland Illusion<br />
When good dogs go bad, it<br />
may be the result of a sluggish<br />
thyroid.<br />
By Barbara Wicklund<br />
40 “One Giant Game of<br />
Hide-and-Seek”<br />
The GAZETTE talks to some of<br />
the K-9 rescue teams on the<br />
ground in Haiti.<br />
By Mara Bovsun<br />
MARCH 2010<br />
COLUMNS/DEPARTMENTS<br />
2 PRESIDENT'S LETTER<br />
4 AKC® UPDATES<br />
8 SHOW SHOTS<br />
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=3"> Contents FEATURES 30 Your Well-Behaved Pocket Pup</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=4"> President's Letter Congratulations are due to the</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=6"> AKC® Updates Edited by BUD BOCCONE Feeling </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=7"> W ith the recent </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=8"> AKC Updates Barkfest: Only the 2 Ceiling</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=9"> AMERICAN KENNEL CLIPS In this special editio</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=10"> SHOW SHOTS Photos by CAROL BEUCHAT (except where</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=12"> WIN SHOTS Judge Don</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=14"> On All Fronts Sadie is the Lady AKC/Eukanu</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=15"> Edited by REBECCA WALLWORK Best in Stats </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=16"> On All Fronts CANINE CULTURE REPORT Book News Dog</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=18"> Better Breeding BY JEFF GROGNET, DVM A Begin</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=19"> needed to do this procedure. The most common m</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=20"> The Judge's Eye BY LINDSEY KAMRATH A husba</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=21"> COURTESY OWNER The Kroghs also empha</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=22"> The Versatile Dog BY JULIE NICONY Two Terri</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=24"> The Versatile Dog fence better than most. I kne</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=26"> Nutrition BY CAROLINE COILE, PH.D. Why Sma</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=27"> In Case of Hypoglycemia If your puppy is dro</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=28"> Healthy Dog Edited by LINDSEY KAMRATH Chiro</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=29"> </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=30"> Healthy Dog Specialists assess nutrition (malno</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=31"> </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=32"> your well-behaved pupopket When it comes to tr</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=33"> Lennon wasn't like the other dogs at the rally tr</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=34"> Training can dispel the stigma that small dogs ar</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=35"> “I had trained the first one because I had see</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=36"> CHAMPIONS in Min</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=37"> A pair of extraordinary Poodles, immortalized by </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=38"> GLAND ILLUSION When good dogs go bad it may be t</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=39"> A top-scoring Shiba Inu in agility suddenly refus</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=40"> Medicine Helps Just five days after the GSD st</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=41"> several trainers in her area who help the owners </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=42"> The GAZETTE talks to some of the teams who were o</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=43"> “One Giant Game of Hide-and-Seek” None of it made</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=44"> Doak, a 2½-year-old black Labrador Retriever, </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=45"> Dogs and handlers of NY Task Force 1 Urban Search</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=46"> Smithey and Doak take a much-needed break. In the</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=47"> GOLDEN RETRIEVER COURTESY NATIONAL DISASTER SEARC</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=48"> AKC SHOPPER & familydog </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=49"> BREED COLUMNS spotlight: Chihuahuas Highlighting </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=50"> TOY Group About the Breed Columns Breed Columns I</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=51"> The Organized Exhibitor Getting your Brussels Gr</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=52"> TOY Group dog, they need to get to the eggs at or</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=53"> By sharing this wisdom, you hope to help this</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=54"> TOY Group I got my pillow and retired to the </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=55"> “Just a Dog”? When we lose one of our beloved </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=56"> TOY Group My vet identified the gro</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=57"> never experienced such a painful and frightening </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=58"> TOY Group Shih Tzu Eyes Over the past few years </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=59"> Protecting Our Dogs Toy Fox Terriers hate cold w</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=60"> NON-SPORTING Group The Fine Line Where do we dra</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=61"> and raising all kinds of hell! When it was all ov</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=62"> NON-SPORTING Group Upcoming National Specialty P</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=63"> The Finnish Spitz, Its Master's Dog Observing fr</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=64"> NON-SPORTING Group Evaluating the Keeshond Puppy </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=65"> Colarlie's Shan Bangalor, going back to import, t</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=66"> NON-SPORTING Group Schipperkes are independen</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 67" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=67"> Grow Old Along With Me The reality program curre</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 68" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=68"> HERDING Group Providing Exposure to Herding Expo</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 69" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=69"> In 1911, Robert Kaleski, who wrote the origin</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 70" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=70"> HERDING Group everyday occurrence, but breeders a</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 71" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=71"> plants for dogs is not a foreign one, Brodsky say</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 72" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=72"> HERDING Group know is purebred but doesn't look l</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 73" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=73"> likely to be adopted are those who are large and,</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 74" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=74"> HERDING Group An interesting exercise is to t</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 75" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=75"> How did Buhunds get started in competi- tive </a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 76" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=76"> HERDING Group wonder in the faces of kids when th</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 77" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=77"> shape and appearance of the silhouette. A sen</a>
<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 78" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=78"> HERDING Group more than once a day, and for a pre</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 80" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=80"> WHY DOES MY DOG DO THAT? FIND OUT in the</a>
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<a title="March 2010 AKC Gazette.pdf page 84" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b572cc6b?page=84"> & familydog </a>
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