Mississippi State Kennel Club

10/10/2026

10/06/2026

When you make a hunting breed more acceptable to hunters, landowners, and regulators while also putting quality dogs back into the hands of responsible breeders, you can save a breed with common sense.

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10/04/2026

10/01/2026

09/26/2026

"Release the hounds!"
🖼️Amy Gessner Larson (American, b.1954). "Penn Marydel Pandemonium", 1988. Watercolor. Gift of the Art Show at the Dog Show.

09/24/2026

Lundehund Eyes: The Tie Braker

In our September Norwegian Lundehund Association of America column, Kristina Maze provides a detailed description of her breed’s almond-shaped, two-toned, dark-rimmed eye. She suggests that for judges confronted in the ring with two evenly matched Lundehunds, eye color is a “glaringly obvious tie breaker unique to this breed.”

The Lundehund eye, evolved for the specialized job of puffin hunting, is also, Kristina writes, remarkably expressive: “Like other primitive dogs, many Lundehunds express indifference—toward strangers out in public, those in the show ring, and, when obstinately ignoring their wishes at home, their human caretakers—not through physical posturing but rather through the windows to their little ‘Lundie’ souls. This author calls the not-so-subtle side eye one of her Lundehunds throws ‘the look of haughty derision.’ An AKC judge playfully describes the steely-eyed gaze she has met during Lundehund table examinations as ‘barely disguised disgusted forbearance.’ ”

(Photo: courtesy Hilde Simonsen)

Read the full column, along with Toy, Non-Sporting, and Herding Group columns, in the September Gazette.

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09/19/2026

This pristine 82-year-old photo makes its digital debut here.

Columbia KC, 1944: Black Cocker Spaniel Gilfran’s Getaway takes BIS under judge George N. Owen. The handler is Clint Callahan, a familiar face in many of the mid-20th-century win shots in our collection. Callahan was a key figure in the early years of the Professional Handlers Association. He served as PHA president and was a Life Member.

Getaway, owned by Mrs. G.M. Burdett, of Washington, D.C., was a steady winner and prolific sire of the 1940s. He was among the Cockers whose bloodlines informed the breed’s heyday of the postwar years. (Sargent Studios photo)

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