Your Voice counts!
Sport with our working dogs is not just a sport: the working K9-Society depends on it.
If we want to keep dogsport alive, keep our healthy and capable working dogs, then we need to step up for our interests. It's time to come together and speak with one voice. Become part of the K9-and-Sports Community!
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News & Updates!
The BSP: also particularly exciting for us, as K9andSports ambassadors Luca Strässer, Jogi Zank and Björn Gießen successfully took part. Horst-Dieterträger and Linda Kies had great conversations with SV President Roswitha Dannen and SV Vice Daniele Strazzieri.
The Cooperation Authorities working group, led by SV performance judges Horst-Dieterträger and Ralf Meins, works hard. The first K9andSports breeding event will take place on October 21, 2023 on a site in Ennepetal. Representatives of the authorities and K9andSports ambassadors will take part. All breed breeding and sports clubs that are part of the VDH were invited. The aim will be to find a consensus on the characteristics that the working dog should have and a possibility of breeding-relevant testing.
What is worth waiting for!
Official feedback from the authorities that they want to work with K9andSports, to promote the exchange between breed clubs, sports associations and the service.
We founded K9andSports in March of this year.
It is one of our priorities to cooperate and share knowledge with the service dog keeping authorities, including police, customs and military.
On May 16, we had the great honor to introduce our initiative at the Working Group of K9 program administrators, a regular event held by the federal and state governments.
This Working Group with representatives from all 16 federal states consists of the heads of the service dog schools and a representative from the ministry. In addition, representatives from the military, customs and the Federal Police are present.
We are more than excited about the great discussions we already had. We discussed in particular breeding selection tests, the role of dogsport as a selection tool for today's service dogs and ways how to improve this system as well as cooperate.
We are sincerely convinced that such cooperation will serve both K9 program administrators as well as the sport and before all, the working dog breeds.
After the Youngstars Camp 2022 in Germany had such a great success, now one is coming in Sweden. Patrick Aaronson was able to find helpers, judges and trainers to volunteer. All participants under the age of 25 take part free of charge.
Mia Skogster initiates meetings of Malinois breeders to create K9andSports Finland ry. In addition to promoting youngsters, the aim is to develop a breeding test in cooperation with the service dog school of the Finnish police.
Together with service dog handlers from the police, military, customs and rescue dog organisations, we analyze what dogs need to bring with them in order to be operational. The goal is to create a catalogue, which must be part of a breeding review. The DMC licensing regulations will be the first to be adjusted according to the results. What do we want to achieve with it? That dogs go into breeding that are suitable for sport and service. And that the authorities can gain insights from the review that are specifically relevant to them. To make it clearer, a few examples that need to be checked more extensively in the future: nose work, environmental safety (e.g. undergrounds, working in the dark).
Last Tuesday the group "Promotion of young people" met. We took stock on the one hand and made a lot of great plans on the other!!! We made a start with the free seminar places for our Joung-Stars - now it goes into the next round. Our next goal is to inspire new people for our great sport and to infect them with the fascination of working dog sports. The Young-Star project will of course remain and will be further developed.
We are confident - let us surprise you 💪🏻
We want sport and service to come together again, as in the past, as far as breeding is concerned. To this end, we have started talks in many countries. In a working group we are working on catalogs which properties are important for the various authorities: police, military, customs and also in rescue dog work. What the goal is: we want to align the breeding selection in such a way that these traits are also tested, as far as they can be inherited. Various breed clubs are already involved here.
Youth work has picked up speed. We get so many free seminar places that we have to organize how we can publish them in a meaningful way. Jany Böhm opens an online mentoring program for young helpers. And the topics are expanding: now we not only cover IGP, but also have the first Mondio seminar on offer. Seminars on search dogs, mental training and soon physio. We are pleased how many clubs want to support young people and how many trainers are active. The nicest thing is that all places are always taken immediately.
On March 14, ambassadors from many countries met for 2 hours in the second online meeting to discuss how to proceed with the "K9 and Sports" initiative and to present the first results from the working groups.
The first young people have already been able to take part in seminars held by our ambassadors: among others with Connie and Peter Scherk, Bernd Föry, Sina Bosch & Oli Knospe. You can find out more about this on our Instagram and Facebook accounts.
We have already been able to organize several seminar places for our young stars (<25 years).
You can find more information under the category "Youngstars"
Always up to date?! Follow us on Insta and Facebook! (Links to Insta and Facebook in the footer)
Last Sunday, our ambassadors met for a 2hour online meeting to discuss how to move forward with K9-and-Sports.
Christa Bremer, Vice-President of our German Kennel Club and Ambassador, had wonderful and motivating words to us: “… We all together should find a way that politicians and people outside of working-dog-sport learn that the sport is not only one of several existing sports, but a requirement (Anm. for society)!”
The goal of the meeting was to decide on working groups and assign valuable members.
They will work on the following topics starting now.
Each Working Group will present their progress in the next meeting of all ambassadors in three weeks.
We are coming together and organizing ourselves. It is quite a task to bring together administrators and the sport world, it is quite a task to find the right people to drive things like scientific studies, public relations measures that actually reach the public and not just dogsport fans ..
But we will do everything to move ahead. Help us by growing the community and collect signatures from your dogsport friends!
#DoghandlersUnited #OneVoice4Workingdogs
We have both an Insta- and a Facebook Account for K9&Sports ow! Follow us and stay updated!
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/k9andsports/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/K9andsports/
On Sunday, January 29, we will meet with all ambassadors to agree on working groups.
We will keep you posted how it went!
You are incredible - we are heading for the number of 5000 signatures - for this 1000 thanks!!!
The list of ambassadors is also getting longer and longer and every day we are able to recruit further valuable members from many nations and different areas of responsibility.
Currently we are working on a concrete plan how we can concretize our goals and to achieve them. We want to establish working groups that can exchange ideas on the respective topics or promote our cause in their own countries.
We will put all our heart and soul into presenting the sport of working dogs with its different areas in society in a positive way and putting it in the right light!!!
Together we are strong! We had you up to date!
We founded K9andSports in March of this year.
It is one of our priorities to cooperate and share knowledge with the service dog keeping authorities, including police, customs and military.
On May 16, we had the great honor to introduce our initiative at the Working Group of K9 program administrators, a regular event held by the federal and state governments.
This Working Group with representatives from all 16 federal states consists of the heads of the service dog schools and a representative from the ministry. In addition, representatives from the military, customs and the Federal Police are present.
We are more than excited about the great discussions we already had. We discussed in particular breeding selection tests, the role of dogsport as a selection tool for today's service dogs and ways how to improve this system as well as cooperate.
We are sincerely convinced that such cooperation will serve both K9 program administrators as well as the sport and before all, the working dog breeds.
After the Youngstars Camp 2022 in Germany had such a great success, now one is coming in Sweden. Patrick Aaronson was able to find helpers, judges and trainers to volunteer. All participants under the age of 25 take part free of charge.
Mia Skogster initiates meetings of Malinois breeders to create K9andSports Finland ry. In addition to promoting youngsters, the aim is to develop a breeding test in cooperation with the service dog school of the Finnish police.
Together with service dog handlers from the police, military, customs and rescue dog organisations, we analyze what dogs need to bring with them in order to be operational. The goal is to create a catalogue, which must be part of a breeding review. The DMC licensing regulations will be the first to be adjusted according to the results. What do we want to achieve with it? That dogs go into breeding that are suitable for sport and service. And that the authorities can gain insights from the review that are specifically relevant to them. To make it clearer, a few examples that need to be checked more extensively in the future: nose work, environmental safety (e.g. undergrounds, working in the dark).
Last Tuesday the group "Promotion of young people" met. We took stock on the one hand and made a lot of great plans on the other!!! We made a start with the free seminar places for our Joung-Stars - now it goes into the next round. Our next goal is to inspire new people for our great sport and to infect them with the fascination of working dog sports. The Young-Star project will of course remain and will be further developed.
We are confident - let us surprise you 💪🏻
We want sport and service to come together again, as in the past, as far as breeding is concerned. To this end, we have started talks in many countries. In a working group we are working on catalogs which properties are important for the various authorities: police, military, customs and also in rescue dog work. What the goal is: we want to align the breeding selection in such a way that these traits are also tested, as far as they can be inherited. Various breed clubs are already involved here.
Youth work has picked up speed. We get so many free seminar places that we have to organize how we can publish them in a meaningful way. Jany Böhm opens an online mentoring program for young helpers. And the topics are expanding: now we not only cover IGP, but also have the first Mondio seminar on offer. Seminars on search dogs, mental training and soon physio. We are pleased how many clubs want to support young people and how many trainers are active. The nicest thing is that all places are always taken immediately.
On March 14, ambassadors from many countries met for 2 hours in the second online meeting to discuss how to proceed with the "K9 and Sports" initiative and to present the first results from the working groups.
The first young people have already been able to take part in seminars held by our ambassadors: among others with Connie and Peter Scherk, Bernd Föry, Sina Bosch & Oli Knospe. You can find out more about this on our Instagram and Facebook accounts.
We have already been able to organize several seminar places for our young stars (<25 years).
You can find more information under the category "Youngstars"
Always up to date?! Follow us on Insta and Facebook! (Links to Insta and Facebook in the footer)
Last Sunday, our ambassadors met for a 2hour online meeting to discuss how to move forward with K9-and-Sports.
Christa Bremer, Vice-President of our German Kennel Club and Ambassador, had wonderful and motivating words to us: “… We all together should find a way that politicians and people outside of working-dog-sport learn that the sport is not only one of several existing sports, but a requirement (Anm. for society)!”
The goal of the meeting was to decide on working groups and assign valuable members.
They will work on the following topics starting now.
Each Working Group will present their progress in the next meeting of all ambassadors in three weeks.
We are coming together and organizing ourselves. It is quite a task to bring together administrators and the sport world, it is quite a task to find the right people to drive things like scientific studies, public relations measures that actually reach the public and not just dogsport fans ..
But we will do everything to move ahead. Help us by growing the community and collect signatures from your dogsport friends!
#DoghandlersUnited #OneVoice4Workingdogs
We have both an Insta- and a Facebook Account for K9&Sports ow! Follow us and stay updated!
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/k9andsports/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/K9andsports/
On Sunday, January 29, we will meet with all ambassadors to agree on working groups.
We will keep you posted how it went!
You are incredible - we are heading for the number of 5000 signatures - for this 1000 thanks!!!
The list of ambassadors is also getting longer and longer and every day we are able to recruit further valuable members from many nations and different areas of responsibility.
Currently we are working on a concrete plan how we can concretize our goals and to achieve them. We want to establish working groups that can exchange ideas on the respective topics or promote our cause in their own countries.
We will put all our heart and soul into presenting the sport of working dogs with its different areas in society in a positive way and putting it in the right light!!!
Together we are strong! We had you up to date!
On March 14, ambassadors from many countries met for 2 hours in the second online meeting to discuss how to proceed with the "K9 and Sports" initiative and to present the first results from the working groups.
The first young people have already been able to take part in seminars held by our ambassadors: among others with Connie and Peter Scherk, Bernd Föry, Sina Bosch & Oli Knospe. You can find out more about this on our Instagram and Facebook accounts.
We have already been able to organize several seminar places for our young stars (<25 years).
You can find more information under the category "Youngstars"
Always up to date?! Follow us on Insta and Facebook! (Links to Insta and Facebook in the footer)
Last Sunday, our ambassadors met for a 2hour online meeting to discuss how to move forward with K9-and-Sports.
Christa Bremer, Vice-President of our German Kennel Club and Ambassador, had wonderful and motivating words to us: “… We all together should find a way that politicians and people outside of working-dog-sport learn that the sport is not only one of several existing sports, but a requirement (Anm. for society)!”
The goal of the meeting was to decide on working groups and assign valuable members.
They will work on the following topics starting now.
Each Working Group will present their progress in the next meeting of all ambassadors in three weeks.
We are coming together and organizing ourselves. It is quite a task to bring together administrators and the sport world, it is quite a task to find the right people to drive things like scientific studies, public relations measures that actually reach the public and not just dogsport fans ..
But we will do everything to move ahead. Help us by growing the community and collect signatures from your dogsport friends!
#DoghandlersUnited #OneVoice4Workingdogs
We have both an Insta- and a Facebook Account for K9&Sports ow! Follow us and stay updated!
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/k9andsports/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/K9andsports/
On Sunday, January 29, we will meet with all ambassadors to agree on working groups.
We will keep you posted how it went!
You are incredible - we are heading for the number of 5000 signatures - for this 1000 thanks!!!
The list of ambassadors is also getting longer and longer and every day we are able to recruit further valuable members from many nations and different areas of responsibility.
Currently we are working on a concrete plan how we can concretize our goals and to achieve them. We want to establish working groups that can exchange ideas on the respective topics or promote our cause in their own countries.
We will put all our heart and soul into presenting the sport of working dogs with its different areas in society in a positive way and putting it in the right light!!!
Together we are strong! We had you up to date!
On March 14, ambassadors from many countries met for 2 hours in the second online meeting to discuss how to proceed with the "K9 and Sports" initiative and to present the first results from the working groups.
The first young people have already been able to take part in seminars held by our ambassadors: among others with Connie and Peter Scherk, Bernd Föry, Sina Bosch & Oli Knospe. You can find out more about this on our Instagram and Facebook accounts.
We have already been able to organize several seminar places for our young stars (<25 years).
You can find more information under the category "Youngstars"
Always up to date?! Follow us on Insta and Facebook! (Links to Insta and Facebook in the footer)
Last Sunday, our ambassadors met for a 2hour online meeting to discuss how to move forward with K9-and-Sports.
Christa Bremer, Vice-President of our German Kennel Club and Ambassador, had wonderful and motivating words to us: “… We all together should find a way that politicians and people outside of working-dog-sport learn that the sport is not only one of several existing sports, but a requirement (Anm. for society)!”
The goal of the meeting was to decide on working groups and assign valuable members.
They will work on the following topics starting now.
Each Working Group will present their progress in the next meeting of all ambassadors in three weeks.
We are coming together and organizing ourselves. It is quite a task to bring together administrators and the sport world, it is quite a task to find the right people to drive things like scientific studies, public relations measures that actually reach the public and not just dogsport fans ..
But we will do everything to move ahead. Help us by growing the community and collect signatures from your dogsport friends!
#DoghandlersUnited #OneVoice4Workingdogs
We have both an Insta- and a Facebook Account for K9&Sports ow! Follow us and stay updated!
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/k9andsports/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/K9andsports/
On Sunday, January 29, we will meet with all ambassadors to agree on working groups.
We will keep you posted how it went!
You are incredible - we are heading for the number of 5000 signatures - for this 1000 thanks!!!
The list of ambassadors is also getting longer and longer and every day we are able to recruit further valuable members from many nations and different areas of responsibility.
Currently we are working on a concrete plan how we can concretize our goals and to achieve them. We want to establish working groups that can exchange ideas on the respective topics or promote our cause in their own countries.
We will put all our heart and soul into presenting the sport of working dogs with its different areas in society in a positive way and putting it in the right light!!!
Together we are strong! We had you up to date!
Our focus!
We want to educate the public about the value of working dogs to society. We want to counteract prejudice against these dogs and sports. We want to actually reach the public by making use of modern channels.
We will cooperate with administrators of working K-9 Programs in connection with sport, public relations and breeding.
We want to support and engage with children and young adults who are interested in both sports and K9-related jobs - whatever breed they may have, wherever they may live.
For more Details, read here: https://k9-and-sports.com/faq/
If you want to know, who will actively drive these projects, read here: https://k9-and-sports.com/wer-steht-dahinter/ .
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