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AKC Delegate
Report SEPTEMBER 2025
by MARGARET DICORLETO, Delegate
The quarterly meeting of the American Kennel Club discussion and should be referred to the Bylaws
was held in Newark, NJ September 8 & 9, 2925 committee.
Highlights from the All-Breed Clubs committee Terrie Breen addressed the challenge of rising
meeting: costs and what clubs can do. A few suggestions
were to: negotiate multi-year contracts whenever
AKC has issued a revised Code of Conduct and possible, explore sponsorships from companies,
Civility, a comprehensive document that emphasizes especially dog food companies, ask hotels if they
all aspects of involvement in dog sports. https:// have discounted rates for non-profits, inquire about
images.akc.org/pdf/AKC_code_of_sportsmanship. any discounts available to non-profits, add revenue
pdf producing AKC events such as Fast CAT.
The “run times” of dogs in Fast CAT will now be AKC Government Relations continues to be very
posted. busy monitoring proposed bills and issuing alerts.
Conformation, obedience and agility entries A town in New Jersey passed a new law to prohibit
continue to be down, but Fast CAT and Rally entries all dog breeding in the city with no exceptions,
have increased. Similar ordinances are being proposed in other
NJ communities. Please visit www.akcgr.org for
There was discussion of a Board proposal allowing legislative updates.
dogs with Limited Registration to compete in
conformation. Currently dogs with Limited The Citizen Science Task Force continues to focus
Registration can compete in all AKC events except on new and low entry breeds. The numbers are
conformation. This is already a controversial topic, concerning: new and low entry breeds represent 106
with many delegates voicing their opposition. of 203 AKC breeds; 21 low entry breeds registered
The Dog Show Rules committee is not in favor of 10 or fewer litters in 2024.
this proposal. This will be discussed further at the From the Parent Clubs committee:
October Board meeting. If the Board approves it at
that time, it would be voted on at the March 2026 The Targeted Breed Study Group continues to
Delegate meeting. review breed restrictions in other countries. There
was no in-person gathering prior to this meeting.
The importance of registering not just litters but all
individual puppies in a litter was emphasized. Meet the Breeds will be held February 7 & 8, 2026 at
the Javits Center in NYC.
Delegate Gini Denninger offered a preliminary
proposal for the creation of a Resolution Board for There is a proposal by the AKC Board that would
Clubs. Conflicts within a club can have damaging allow specialty clubs to offer classes for dogs of
effects on the club’s ability to function. AKC does similar breeds. This will be discussed further at the
not get involved in handling disputes within clubs October Board meeting.
leaving clubs to deal with contentious matters on
their own. Her proposal included a panel of trained The AKC Archivist, Kim Ross, kim.ross@akc.org,
volunteers who would mediate disputes. It was continues to work on reference requests and to work
determined that this topic needs much further on the backlog of Library and Archives materials.
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