Good Citizen Dog Scheme, the UK's largest dog training programme
The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme is the largest dog training scheme in the UK. Its aim is to promote responsible dog ownership and in turn, enhance our relationship with our pets and to make the community aware of the benefits associated with dog ownership.
Getting a dog is one of the rare occasions you actually choose a member of your family! So if things are going to work out, your choice must be a good one. So what happens when you find the right dog and bring it home? Will it behave itself in your home? Will it get on with your family and what will it be like when you take it out? These are just a few questions that new dog owners will ask themselves when bringing a dog into the home. How do you learn to live with your new dog?
The Good Citizen Dog Scheme Guidelines handbook is available to purchase from the Online Shop book section. Price is £3.00.
Top Dog Gromit – the new face of the Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme
Gromit, the good looking and intelligent half of the Oscar® winning duo Wallace and Gromit, is to become the new face of the Kennel Club’s Good Citizen Dog Scheme - the largest dog training programme in the UK.
Yesterday, during a break in the filming of the new Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wallace was overheard congratulating Gromit and stating that his new found responsibility was not to be sniffed at. Gromit wagged his tail and frowned questioningly at his faithful ‘Master’. Will Wallace now realise who has brains, the looks and the breeding in this partnership? Watch this space!
This new and exciting collaboration between the Kennel Club and Aardman was announced at Crufts 2008.
On behalf of the Kennel Club, Caroline Kisko said: “It’s very exciting for the us to have Gromit as the new face for the Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme. The scheme promotes responsible dog ownership through training in which both dogs and owners take part together, and over 230,000 dogs have now passed through the programme. Gromit is the ideal good citizen as anyone who has seen any of the Wallace and Gromit films knows! Gromit is the most responsible dog of all, a role model for not only dogs, but also for their owners to follow!”
Sean Clarke, Head of Marketing and Licensing at Aardman added: “Gromit is probably the most popular of the Aardman animated figures and we are extremely pleased to be joining forces with the Kennel Club as Gromit is the perfect fit for the Good Citizen Dog Scheme. Gromit epitomises everything the scheme stands for - well behaved, well trained dogs - and is an example for all owners and dogs to achieve”.
