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AKC Breeder Symposium: Form & Function Course with Laura Reeves!
01/06/2023 - 01/08/2023
You’re Invited! AKC is excited to bring dog breeders a new opportunity!
Get front and center to a world-class line-up of breeders, veterinarians, and canine experts! Join us Friday evening for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and fun at the AKC Breeder Symposium Reception!
Educate to Elevate
Dog breeders are stronger together. As it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate through credible and trustworthy information, AKC is thrilled to host this 3-day educational event to elevate, encourage, and ignite your passion for breeding dogs. Breeders will earn a certificate for attending to show your knowledge, understanding, and dedication to breeding!
Come visit the PDT booth, enter the drawing for PDT swag & just say hey!
Saturday – Form & Function – 9:15
This course covers the importance of a breed’s function to preserve breeders. Each one of the recognized breeds is a living, breathing conduit to specific people, places, and times of history. Our role as responsible, preservation breeders is to serve as curators of the purebred dog. Preservation breeding, breeding to the standard — written to describe the dog that did its job the best — breeding to continue seeking to achieve the *ideal*, the FORM that served our breeds’ FUNCTION, is how we can best bring history to life now and into the future.
Sunday – Form & Function – 10:30
This course covers the importance of a breed’s function to preserve breeders. Each one of the recognized breeds is a living, breathing conduit to specific people, places, and times of history. Our role as responsible, preservation breeders is to serve as curators of the purebred dog. Preservation breeding, breeding to the standard — written to describe the dog that did its job the best — breeding to continue seeking to achieve the *ideal*, the FORM that served our breeds’ FUNCTION, is how we can best bring history to life now and into the future.