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The Canadian Kennel Club (or CKC; French: Club canin canadien), founded in 1888 and chartered under the Animal Purebred Act, is one of the national kennel clubs of Canada. It maintains breed registries services for those purebred dogs approved for its control by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , and provides governance for all CKC-approved dog ...
Barbet d'Arret, circa 1915. The Barbet as it is known today is a fairly rare and recent breed development. Over the centuries, the breed existed in various forms, at times serving simply as a companion or guardian dog, but more often utilised as an all-around flushing or working dog.
Barbet may refer to: Barbet (dog), a dog breed; Various birds in the infraorder Ramphastides. Capitonidae, the family of the New World barbets; Lybiidae, the family of the African barbets; Megalaimidae, the family of the Asian barbets; Semnornithidae, the family of the toucan-barbets; USS Barbet, a coastal minesweeper commissioned on 29 ...
The Canadian Lowline Cattle Association defines its objectives as including "maintain the purity and improve the breed" of cattle as well as collecting maintaining breed information and publishing a Herd Book. [2] The Essex Pig Society is building up the numbers of the Essex Pig, formerly thought to be an extinct breed of the domestic pig. [3]
ACFA/CAA — American Cat Fanciers Association [7] — United States; ASFE — Asociacion Felina Espanola — Spain; CAA — Cat Aficionado Association — China (shares the ACFA standards) CCA-AFC — Canadian Cat Association — Canada; CCC — Chats Canada Cats — Canada; CFA — Cat Fanciers' Association [3] — Worldwide, originating from ...
The Canadian Cat Association's primary goal is to promote responsible pet ownership and development of pedigreed cats in Canada. CCA-AFC's primary services to its members include maintaining an accurate registry of pedigreed cats, sanctioning cat shows (including licensing affiliate clubs, recording titles, and scoring the All Canadian Awards [2]), setting breed standards, and training judges ...
The toucan barbet is larger than the prong-billed barbet and considerably heavier. [6] They possess large, swollen bills and lack strong sexual dimorphism in their plumage . [ 7 ] The plumage of the prong-billed barbet is orange-brown, and that of the toucan barbet is more distinctively patterned with black, red, grey and gold.
The bearded barbet is a common resident breeder in tropical west Africa. It is an arboreal species of gardens and wooded country which eats fruit, although the young are fed on insects. It is found in well-wooded areas with plentiful fig trees. It will enter gardens for fruit. [9]