What can we do to drive up the standards of dog breeding practices in the UK in order to improve canine health?

Martin Clunes is one of Britain's best loved actors. He is well know for his role as Gary in the genre defining show Men Behaving Badly but since then he has gone on to explore a whole host of challenges. His most recent exploit saw him set off on a worldwide adventure to discover why the relationship between humans and dogs has lasted so long in the documentary A Man and his Dogs. K9 Magazine caught up with him...

In this latest installment of K9 Magazine we're celebrating. We're celebrating because it's our 25th anniversary edition and we thought what better way to do that than be celebrating the very thing that makes us tick, THE DOG!! A truly bumper edition with no shortage of entertainment, information and a copy that Pete Wentz + Fall Out Boy fans the world over will want to get hold of as a keepsake...

Veterinarians and dog owners are today welcoming new research that delivers the promise of an extended happy life together for millions of dog owners and their pets...

With over 400 acres of unspoilt Kent countryside there is camping, walking and exercising space in abundance. The show boasts a number of excellent arena displays and attractions for you and your dog as well as have a go activities including the Dogstable Course, My Dogs Got Talent & Agility...

The RSPCA have made issued a clear statement of intent to the Kennel Club, either reform the pedigree dog world or stand accused of tacit endorsement of animal cruelty...

Officials in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva have come up with an innovative method of identifying poop scoop dodgers by setting up a DNA database of local dogs...

He is pragmatic about his situation and doesn’t complain about it, rather he simply shines a different light on it and enables others to see the funny side of his story. He was born in Egypt and is a practicing Muslim, here is his hilarious, provocative and inspiring story of how a Beagle puppy called Oliver enabled members of Ahmed’s community to overcome their preconceptions and embrace Ahmed as a member, not of the Arab-American community, but as a member of the dog loving community...

Some dog breeds acquired names that have no absolutely no mystery about them at all. The Golden Retriever, the English Short Haired Pointer and the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever being cases in point, they’re breeds that do exactly what it says on the tin. But other breeds have such seemingly weird and wonderful names we thought it about time we uncovered the origins of these monikers...

With more and more ‘designer’ or hybrid dogs making the headlines featuring the likes of Puggles, Golden Doodles, Cockerpoos, Pome-Pekes and other elaboratly titled canine crosses, it prompted us to wonder, exactly how did we arrive at Afghans, Airedales and Alaskan Malamutes when all we started with was the good, old fashioned Wolf? What precisely is a dog breed and how on earth does one go about creating one?

What is the dingo? Is he a direct descendant of the wolf or is he a wild dog which was once domesticated, then turned wild again? This puzzle is as frustrating as the proverbial chicken-and-egg progression.