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National and local breed, field, and hunt clubs - Meet other hunters and trainers in your area through a local club or organization! Sorted by state.

AHDC - American Hunting Dog Club - Formed "to preserve and improve the opportunity for the enjoyment and appreciation for the American hunting experience and heritage... primarily through educational activities." All hunting dogs, pointers, retrievers, and spaniels, are tested on land and in the water.
 
AKC - American Kennel Club - The largest and the most recognized kennel club. They focus on the "purebred dog" and responsible ownership through education. The non-profit organization holds conformation shows, obedience shows, hunting tests, and field trials. In all but the hunting tests, dogs compete against each other for placement points which eventally accumulate for a championship title.
ALL AKC HT/FT Club listings
Local Retriever-AKC chapter web sites which hold HT/FT
Local Spaniel-AKC chapter web sites which hold HT/FT
Local Pointing Dog-AKC chapter web sites which hold HT/FT
 
ANKC - Australian National Kennel Council - To promote excellence in breeding, showing, trialling, obedience and other canine related activities and the ownership of temperamentally and physically sound pure bred dogs by responsible individuals across Australia.
 
CKC - Canadian Kennel Club - "Encourgaing, guiding, and advancing... the interests of pure bred dogs and their responsible owners and breeders Canada", eh. Its the AKC of Canada.
Local Retriever-CKC chapter web sites which hold HT/FT
Local Pointer-CKC chapter web sites which hold HT/FT
 
ENCI - Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana (Italy) - Promotion and development of the Italian breeds.
 
FCI - Federation Cynologique Internationale - Recognizes 330 breeds. Each of them is the "property" of a specific country. Aims to promote and protect cynology and purebred dogs by any means it considers necessary.
 
HRC (UKC) - United Kennel Club Hunting Retriever Club - They promote "total dog" registry, "one that performs and looks equally well". Conformation shows, obedience shows, field trials for points leading to championship titles. Hunting tests are non-competetive.
Local HRC-UKC chapter web sites
 
KC - The Kennel Club (UK) - The primary object of The Kennel Club is to promote in every way, the general improvement of dogs.
 
NAHRA - North American Hunting Retriever Asscociation - Mostly Retrievers but all breeds are tested and issued passing certificates. Formed to "preserve the hunting instincts of our retreiever breeds".
Local NAHRA chapter web sites
 
NAVHDA - North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association - Only Pointing breeds are registered and allowed to test in NAVHDA. Their club purpose is to "foster, promote, and improve" the versatile pointing breeds. Tests are non competetive and include land, water, and tracking.
Local NAVHDA chapter web sites
 
NSTRA - National Shoot-to-Retrieve Association - Open to all pointing breeds, testing is "conducted under conditions closely resembling actual wild bird hunting" where dogs earn points towards a championship title.
Local NSTRA chapter web sites
Wisconsin Series Bird Dog Challenge - A NBDCA sanctioned non-for-profit bird dog trial organization that holds primarily holds off-season trials.


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