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Licensed by the United Kennel Club, Inc.
 EVENTS
Below is a partial listing of the events that the United Kennel Club offers. If you find one to be of interest to you, please check the UKC Website to see when the next one is scheduled.
CONFORMATION
Conformation Events, or Dog Shows, are competitive events that evaluate a dog’s structure as it compares to a written description of the perfect specimen of that breed, called a standard. The judges must be familiar with not only the standards of the breeds they judge, but with the Conformation rules and regulations as well. Dog shows may be held for one breed, several breeds or all breeds, depending on the experience of the club in managing such events.
OBEDIENCE
Obedience Events test the training of dogs as they perform a series of prescribed exercises at the command of their handler. There are several levels of competition, ranging from basic commands such as “sit,” “come” and “heel,” to scent discrimination and directed retrieves over jumps, that are based on the dog’s level of accomplishment, and the classes are further delineated by the experience of the handler as well.
AGILITY
Agility Events are fast-paced exercises in which the handler directs the dog through a course involving tunnels, sway bridges, jumps and other obstacles in a race against the clock. The dogs are scored for the manner in which they negotiate these obstacles and the time elapsed to complete the course.
WEIGHT PULL
Weight Pull Events give dogs an opportunity to perform a function that comes naturally to many dogs, one that they obviously enjoy. Dogs are placed in a harness and pull a weighted vehicle a prescribed distance. The weight vehicles operate either on wheels, on snow or on a rail system. The dogs are scored based on how much weight they can pull and by the proportion of their body weight to the amount of weight pulled. From the smallest of breeds to the largest, all dogs can compete.
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