In the early hours of Monday, February 6th, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked eastern Turkey, the homeland of our beloved Kangal Dogs. The reports are beyond imagination, with already over 20,000 presumed dead and masses of people without shelter or water in below zero conditions. KDCA is making a donation of $1500 to humanitarian efforts in the devastated region. We feel it is important that our friends and colleagues understand we value the Turkish people. If you would also like to...

Jan Dohner Our ability to maintain an open registry within the UKC and under the control of the club is invaluable to our breed. The pitfalls of closed registries with limited gene pools are well known. Our responsibility to carefully evaluate new dogs is highly consequential and complicated by a continually changing situation. In general, the Single Registration Committee of the KDCA works to register Kangal Dogs who are the offspring of non-UKC registered parents that are adequately...

Jan Dohner What is a dog breed? We often answer this question with a list of breeds recognized by an organization such as the AKC. However, the simplest definition comes from the global Food and Agricultural Organization, which once said a breed is what a group of people in a specific area say a breed is. This definition also comes very close to describing the term landrace as it applies to dog breeds. The common definition of landrace breed is a locally adapted, traditional variety of a...