AKC Group Standards
Download AKC approved breed standards by complete group for use on any portable electronic device.
Judges Study Guide
No single written guide is ever comprehensive enough to be the only learning tool utilized in preparation for judging a new breed. We urge you to seek other educational opportunities to broaden your base knowledge and to see and examine as many of the breed as possible. Study Guides may be considered as educational tools to be used to enhance your knowledge; they will not replace seminars and educational components on an application.
Mentor Lists
Parent Clubs determine the requirements for the Parent Club approved mentors. Not all Parent Clubs have supplied a mentor list.
Breed Standard Tests
- Video on Measuring and Weighing Technique
- Measuring and Weighing Dogs Study Guide
- Junior Showmanship Judging Guide
- Affenpinscher +
- Afghan Hound +
- Airedale Terrier +
- Akita +
- Alaskan Malamute +
- American English Coonhound +
- American Eskimo Dog +
- American Foxhound +
- American Hairless Terrier +
- American Staffordshire Terrier +
- American Water Spaniel +
- Anatolian Shepherd Dog +
- Australian Cattle Dog +
- Australian Shepherd +
- Australian Terrier +
- Azawakh +
- Basenji +
- Basset Fauve de Bretagne +
- Basset Hound +
- Bearded Collie +
- Beauceron +
- Bedlington Terrier +
- Belgian Laekenois +
- Belgian Malinois +
- Belgian Sheepdog +
- Belgian Tervuren +
- Bergamasco Sheepdog +
- Berger Picard +
- Bernese Mountain Dog +
- Bichon Frise +
- Biewer Terrier +
- Black and Tan Coonhound +
- Black Russian Terrier +
- Bloodhound +
- Bluetick Coonhound +
- Boerboel +
- Bolognese +
- Border Collie +
- Border Terrier +
- Boston Terrier +
- Bouvier des Flandres +
- Boxer +
- Boykin Spaniel +
- Bracco Italiano +
- Briard +
- Brittany +
- Brussels Griffon +
- Bullmastiff +
- Bull Terrier +
- Cairn Terrier +
- Canaan Dog +
- Cane Corso +
- Cardigan Welsh Corgi +
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniel +
- Cesky Terrier +
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever +
- Chihuahua +
- Chinese Crested +
- Chinese Shar-Pei +
- Chinook +
- Chow Chow +
- Cirneco dell'Etna +
- Clumber Spaniel +
- Cocker Spaniel +
- Coton de Tulear +
- Curly-Coated Retriever +
- Czechoslovakian Vlcak +
- Dachshund +
- Dalmatian +
- Dandie Dinmont Terrier +
- Danish-Swedish Farmdog +
- Doberman Pinscher +
- Dogo Argentino +
- Dogue de Bordeaux +
- Dutch Shepherd +
- English Cocker Spaniel +
- English Foxhound +
- English Setter +
- English Springer Spaniel +
- English Toy Spaniel +
- Entlebucher Mountain Dog +
- Field Spaniel +
- Finnish Lapphund +
- Finnish Spitz +
- Flat-Coated Retriever +
- French Bulldog +
- German Pinscher +
- German Shepherd Dog +
- German Shorthaired Pointer +
- German Wirehaired Pointer +
- Giant Schnauzer +
- Glen of Imaal Terrier +
- Golden Retriever +
- Gordon Setter +
- Grand Basset Griffon Vendeen +
- Great Dane +
- Great Pyrenees +
- Greater Swiss Mountain Dog +
- Greyhound +
- Havanese +
- Ibizan Hound +
- Icelandic Sheepdog +
- Irish Red & White Setter +
- Irish Setter +
- Irish Terrier +
- Irish Water Spaniel +
- Irish Wolfhound +
- Italian Greyhound +
- Japanese Akitainu +
- Japanese Chin +
- Kai Ken +
- Keeshond +
- Kerry Blue Terrier +
- Labrador Retriever +
- Lagotto Romagnolo +
- Lakeland Terrier +
- Lancashire Heeler +
- Leonberger +
- Löwchen +
- Maltese +
- Manchester Terrier +
- Mastiff +
- Miniature American Shepherd +
- Miniature Bull Terrier +
- Miniature Pinscher +
- Miniature Schnauzer +
- Mudi +
- Neopolitan Mastiff +
- Nederlandse Kooikerhondje +
- Newfoundland +
- Norfolk Terrier +
- Norrbottenspets +
- Norwegian Buhund +
- Norwegian Elkhound +
- Norwegian Lundehund +
- Norwich Terrier +
- Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever +
- Old English Sheepdog +
- Otterhound +
- Parson Russell Terrier +
- Pekingese +
- Pembroke Welsh Corgi +
- Peruvian Inca Orchid +
- Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen +
- Pharaoh Hound +
- Plott +
- Pointer +
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog +
- Pomeranian +
- Poodle +
- Portuguese Podengo +
- Portuguese Podengo Pequeno +
- Portuguese Water Dog +
- Pyrenean Mastiff +
- Pyrenean Shepherd +
- Rat Terrier +
- Redbone Coonhound +
- Rhodesian Ridgeback +
- Rottweiler +
- Russell Terrier +
- Russian Toy +
- Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka +
- Saint Bernard +
- Saluki +
- Schipperke +
- Scottish Deerhound +
- Scottish Terrier +
- Sealyham Terrier +
- Shetland Sheepdog +
- Shiba Inu +
- Shih Tzu +
- Siberian Husky +
- Silky Terrier +
- Skye Terrier +
- Small Munsterlander +
- Smooth Fox Terrier +
- Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier +
- Spanish Water Dog +
- Spinone Italiano +
- Staffordshire Bull Terrier +
- Standard Schnauzer +
- Sussex Spaniel +
- Swedish Vallhund +
- Teddy Roosevelt Terrier +
- Tibetan Mastiff +
- Tibetan Spaniel +
- Tibetan Terrier +
- Toy Fox Terrier +
- Treeing Walker Coonhound +
- Weimaraner +
- Welsh Springer Spaniel +
- Welsh Terrier +
- West Highland White Terrier +
- Whippet +
- Wire Fox Terrier +
- Wirehaired Pointing Griffon +
- Wirehaired Vizsla +
- Xoloitzcuintli +
- Yakutian Laika +
- Yorkshire Terrier +
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