Here you can find information about past events we’ve held, including links to photos.
Fast CAT – September 2026
Friday, September 11th – Sunday, September 13th, 2026, at H.W. Banner Park in Omaha, NE
Scent Work Seminar with Khara Schuetzner
Monday, July 13th, 2026 at the North Elkhorn Fire Station
Scent Work Trials – July 2026
Friday, July 10th – Sunday, July 12th, 2026 at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, IA
NKC Total Dog Experience – May 2026
Friday, May 15th – Sunday, May 17th, 2026 at Sandhills Global Event Center in Lincoln, NE
Facebook Photo Album | Junior Showmanship Facebook Photo Album
Fast CAT – April 2026
Friday, April 17th – Sunday, April 19th, 2026 at H.W. Banner Park in Omaha, NE
Holiday Party – December 2025
Held Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 at the Omaha Marriott
Facebook Photo Album
NKC Tracking Test – November 9th, 2025
The Nebraska Kennel Club held their Tracking Test November 9, 2025 at Chalco Hills Recreation Area in Omaha, NE.
The test filled with 3 TD and 4 TDX entries. We had 2 Australian Shepherds, Akita, Golden Retriever, Basset, Petite Basset Griffon Vendeen and a Grand Basset Griffon Vendeen.
Our judges this year were Carol Ruthenberg and Kim Kearfott. Both judges laid some amazing tracks.
Plotting day was cold with rain off and on and test day was cold and windy.
We had 2 passes this year:
TD Track 2 was an Akita. This team started strong on the first leg. The dog did seem to give each corner a thorough check. They did get to the glove and I did get their picture as the handler proudly raised it to the judges.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Stone and Umbro Moro Stone Jones BCAT TKN VHMA on their new Tracking Dog Title.
TD Track 3 was an Australian Shepherd. This team started strong! On the last leg the dog got distracted by the gallery, but with some patience the handler got him refocused and made it to the glove.
Congratulations to Saige Bell and Highpoint’s Something About That Sound on their new Tracking Dog Title.
Sadly, there were no passes for the TDX’s.
Pictures will be posted on our website: Nebraska Kennel Club – Nebraska Kennel Club
I would like to thank Jan Hague for taking such good care of our judges.
I would like to also thank all of our volunteers which included some new people interested in tracking: Dawn Thrapp (Chief Tracklayer), Sharon Brewer (TD Tracklayer), Ron Weaks (TD Tracklayer), Dian Quist (TD Tracklayer), Annie Kelley (TDX Tracklayer), Shelly Rehmeier (TDX Tracklayer), Mary Kramer (TDX Tracklayer), Dawn Thrapp (TDX Tracklayer), Lori Tranmer (Chief Cross Tracklayer) Rachael Ptacek (Cross Tracklayer), Jim Clayshulte (Cross Tracklayer), Erica Radach (Flag Carrier), Bre Clayton (Flag Carrier), Ellen Plouzek (Driver), Jan Hague (Driver for Judges), Ron Weaks (Raffle tickets), Norine Nieman (Treasurer) and everyone who stayed to help clean up afterwards.
A HUGE thanks to the following people and businesses who donated to our event and raffle to help make this event possible. The raffle and money goes towards our expenses.
Nature Dog Rise Animal Wellness and Rehabilitation
Sue Volkmer
Shelly Rehmeier
Ron Weaks
Norine Neiman
Sharee Newman
Gerianne Darnell
Kari & Jeremy Medbury
Juli Jurgens
Elizabeth Shotkoski
Annie Kelley
Lisa Fox
I feel that our club survives thru our members who all share that special passion for dogs and dog events!
Sincerely:
Shelly Rehmeier NKC Tracking Test Chair/Secretary
AKC Scent Work Trials – December 2024
NKC hosted its last event of the 2024 at Werner Park in Sarpy County on December 6-8, 2024. We couldn’t have had nicer weather for December! Our judges (Johnnette Ulch, Sharon Dowell, Brenda Bruce, and Jeff Hartzler set fun and challenging searches for our teams to conquer. This trial was the biggest trial we have had at Werner Park and required some class juggling to keep our judges under their maximum judging times! Overall, we had 70 people showing 99 dogs in 637 runs. There was a 60% pass rate for the entire weekend which included the Detective classes. The fastest run of the weekend was 2.40 seconds in Novice B Exterior. Zarah, owned by Dahna Huddleson, achieved this fast time.
Friday, we held our detective and buried trials with 65 teams competing. For the first time our detective trials filled with 20 runs in each trial. We even had a waiting list!
Saturday and Sunday, we had one trial each day consisting of handler discrimination, interiors, exteriors and containers. There were 84 competing teams on Saturday and 81 teams on Sunday.
Six dogs and handlers achieved super title this weekend. On Friday, we had two dogs and handlers achieve their Detective Titles. They were Riley, owned by Lori Tranmer and Rayna owned by Gerianne Darnell, both club members!!. That was a trifecta for Rayna this year. She also earned her Obedience Trial Championship and Rally Championship earlier in the year (not to forget that she also got her TD too)! Thank you to Judge Jeff Hartzler for presenting badges to our new detective dogs. We also had four dog and handler teams finish their Overall Master Titles. They were Pip, owned by Trish Burbach; Quincy, owned by Teresa Barney; Caper, owned by Jenny Vincent; and Smash; owned by Jen Howell. Congratulations to these six exceptional teams!
Fast CAT Event – September 2023
Saturday, September 16th & Sunday, September 17th, 2023 at H.W. Banner Park in Omaha, NE
The Nebraska Kennel Club hosted AKC Fast CAT events on September 16th & 17th, 2023 at Banner Park in Omaha. The events were a great success and we’d like to thank everyone who participated for their support.
Click below to view results from the Fast CAT Event:
2023 AKC National Tracking Invitational
September 9th & 10th, 2023
The Cornhusker Kennel Club and Nebraska Kennel Club co-hosted the 2023 AKC National Tracking Invitational on September 9th & 10th, 2023. The event was a great success and we would like to thank all the judges, volunteers and exhibitors for their support.
For full information please click here to visit the website for the 2023 AKC National Tracking Invitational. Also, click here to visit the Facebook Group Page for the event.
AKC Detective Trials – July 2023
Sunday, July 30th, 2023 at the Margre H. Durham Center at Bellevue University
Our thanks to the judges, volunteers and exhibitors for helping make our Scent Work Detective Trials a great success.
AKC Scent Work Trials – July 2023
Friday, July 14th – Sunday, 16th, 2023 at the
Iowa Western Community College
The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank the judges, exhibitors and volunteers for making our July 2023 Scent Work Trials a great success!
Nebraska Kennel Club Dog Show – May 2023
May 20 & 21, 2023 at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln, NE
TWO ALL-BREED CONFORMATION SHOWS, TWO OPEN SHOWS, TWO BENCHED COONHOUND EVENTS, THREE OBEDIENCE/RALLY EVENTS AND HEALTH CLINICS ALL IN TWO DAYS
We would like to thank all the exhibitors, the judges, and volunteers for helping us celebrate our 100th Anniversary at our 2023 Conformation Show! This show was dedicated to the members that worked tirelessly to found and build this club, the celebration for 100 years of Pure-Bred Dogs and planning for the next 100 years of “all things dog”.
Fast Cat – April 2023
April 22-23, 2023 at H.W. Banner Park in Omaha, NE
The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank all the exhibitors, volunteers and the judges for their help in making our April 2023 Fast CAT even a great success!
Click below to see the results from the Fast CAT event.
Scent Work Trials – December 2022
Held December 9-11, 2022 at Werner Park in Papillion, NE
We held 2 Detective Trials on Friday and Scent Work Trials on Saturday and Sunday.
Tracking Tests – November 2022
Tracking Tests were held Nov 13, 2022 at the Chalco Hills Recreation Area, 8901 S. 1554th Street, Omaha, NE 68138. The tests were a great success and we’d like to thank the judges, exhibitors and volunteers for all their hard work!
FastCAT – September 2022
September 16-18, 2022 at H.W. Banner Park in Omaha, NE
The weather for this weekend was much better than our last 2 Fast CATs not nearly as windy and we had only 1 hour rain delay. It took longer on Saturday to get ribbons and times out as we worked with a new secretary. This improved much for Sunday. The numbers and new titles are as follows:
35 dogs participated in Fun Runs. We had 289 runs with 260 qualifiers!
Thank you to the participants and volunteers that made this a successful event.
Earned their BCATs: Ila, Brummy, Winston, Halen, Cora, Luna, Mayva, Ju’le, Vada, Kola, Pipa, Neri, Opal
Earned their DCATs: Xyon, Taylor, Arya, Pip
Teagun earned her FCAT2!
Congratulations on your new titles!
Sincerely,
Ron Weaks NKC Fast CAT Chair
Beginner & Advanced Tracking Classes
Saturdays starting September 24 Thru October 29, 2022
Location: First class will be held at Chalco Hills Recreation Area, other week’s location will vary.
Class Fee: $75.00
Instructors: Shelly Rehmeier & Sue Volkmer.
Cost of the class will be $75.00 per team. Money will help with expenses for our Tracking Test. Classes will be held Saturday mornings starting with the Beginner Class at 9:00am and Advanced class at 10:30am rain or shine unless it is severe weather.
The following classes will be offered:
Beginner class: (4 spots) Teams that are just starting or are already started and need help.
Advanced Class: (3 spots) Dogs that are getting ready for a TD and/or Certification.
If the Advanced level does not fill, more Beginners may be added. Classes are small to allow a lot of training time for each team. Beginner class will be approx. 1 to 1.5 hours. Advanced class will be as long as needed. Week 1 will be held at Chalco Hills Recreation Area. Subsequent week locations may vary.
We look forward to seeing you at our classes and thank you for supporting NKC Tracking.
Scent Work Detective Trials – July 2022
There were two Scent Work Detective Trials held on Sunday July 31. 2022 at the Dowell Farm, in Glenwood, IA.
Both trials had 13 entries. Trial #1 had 2 passes, Trial #2 had 4 passes. Congratulations to each of the passing teams!
The Scent Work Detective Class offers an integrated search environment with an unknown number of hides in a variety of elements. The intent of the Detective Class is to emulate as closely as possible the work of a true detection dog.
Scent Work Trials – July 2022
Held July 15 – 17, 2022 at Iowa Western Community College
2700 College Road, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
We would like to thank all of our exhibitors, judges and volunteers for their help making this trial a success.
Nebraska / Platte Valley Cluster Dog Show – May 2022
May 21 & 22, 2022 at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln, NE
We would like to thank the Exhibitors, Judges, and all the volunteers for making the 2022 Nebraska / Platte Valley Cluster Conformation Show a great success! Click the link below for more photos from the show:
Fast CAT – April 2022
Held April 22nd – 24th, 2022 at Banner Park in Omaha, NE
We’d like to thank everyone for their help with our April Fast CAT event!
Scent Work Trials – December 2021
Held December 10th – 12th, 2021 at Werner Park
We’d like to thank the judges, volunteers and exhibitors for making our Scent Work Trials were a great success!
Photo Galleries
Click the links below to view photos from the event.
Gallery 1 – Friday (Detective Class) | Gallery 2 – Saturday Morning | Gallery 3 – Saturday 12:45 – 3pm |
Gallery 4 – Saturday 3pm – Close | Gallery 5 – Sunday Morning | Gallery 6 – Sunday Noon – 3pm |
Gallery 7 – Sunday 3pm – Close
Photography by Devin Garvey of Devin’s Purple Poodles
NKC Tracking Tests – November 2021
Held November 14, 2021 at Chalco Hills Recreation Area
We’d like to thank the judges, exhibitors and volunteers for making our tracking tests a success! We had one TD pass and no TDX passes.
Photos now available! Click here to view!
Photography by Devin Garvey
Fast CAT – October 2021
Held October 23rd – 24th, 2021 at the Sarpy County Fairgrounds in Springfield, NE
Mother Nature was not very cooperative with our Fast CAT event, providing us plenty of rain, and in fact the Sunday afternoon session had to be canceled due to lightening. We’d like to thank everyone who provided support for the event despite the weather.
2021 AKC National Tracking Invitational
Held October 16 & 17, 2021 at Branched Oak Recreational Area in Raymond, NE
The 2021 AKC National Tracking Invitational was hosted by the Cornhusker Kennel Club of Lincoln NE and the Nebraska Kennel Club of Omaha NE. The event was a great success and we wish to thank the judges, exhibitors, volunteers, the AKC and everyone else involved for their support.
For more information about this event, visit the official website:
2021 AKC National Tracking Invitational Website
AND, to view photos from the event please visit the photo gallery:
Scent Work Trials – July 2021
Held July 16 – 18, 2021 at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, IA
Photos now available!
The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank everyone for making our Scent Work Trials a great success! Photos are now available, click here to visit the photographer’s website.
Nebraska / Platte Valley Cluster Dog Show – May 2021
Held May 22nd – 23rd, 2021 at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln, NE
The Nebraska Kennel Club and Platte Valley Kennel Club would like to thank all the exhibitors, judges and volunteers for making the 2021 Nebraska / Platte Valley Cluster Conformation shows a great success!
PHOTOS!
Fast CAT – April 2021
Held April 24 – 25, 2021 at the Sarpy County Fairgrounds in Springfield, NE
Photos Now Available!
Click here to visit the photographer’s website for photos from the Fast CAT® Event.
Our Fast CAT® Event was a great success, and we’d like to thank all the exhibitors, the volunteers, and the Huntmaster for their support. Dogs had a lot of fun!
Scent Work Trials – December 2020
Held December 5th – 6th, 2020 at Werner Park
The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank all the exhibitors, judges, and volunteers who helped make our December 2020 Scent Work Trials a great success. Special thanks also to our host facility Werner Park, home of the Omaha Storm Chasers! And, special thanks and congratulations to everyone for adhering to the guidelines established to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
Photos!
To view photos from the event, please click here to visit the photographer’s website.
Scent Work Trials – July 2020
The NKC held Scent Work Trials on July 10 – 12, and we’d like to thank all the exhibitors, judges, and volunteers who helped make them a great success. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique challenge so we’d especially like to thank everyone for adhering to the rules and guidelines that were established. Who would have guessed that face masks could make such a fashion statement?
This is a very small selection of photos from the event, to see the entire set (over 1,300 photos!) visit the photographer’s website at http://www.joeomar.com/NKC202007SWHome.html
Scent Work Trials – December 2019
Held December 7th – 8th, 2019 at Companion Dog Club in Omaha, NE
We would like to thank the judge, volunteers, and all the exhibitors for making our December Scent Work Trials a great success! To view photos from the trials please visit the photographer’s website via the link below:
Tracking Tests – November 2019
Held November 10th, 2019 at the Chalco Hills Recreation Area in Omaha, NE.
Weather for the tests was excellent, mostly sunny with temperatures in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Two Tracking Tests (TD) and three Tracking Dog Excellent (TDX) tests were run, with both TDs passing. The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank the exhibitors, judges, and volunteers for making the tests a great success!
Below is a small selection of photos from the event. For more photos please click here to visit the photographer’s website.
Barn Hunt Trials – October 2019
Held October 19th – 20th, 2019 at Companion Dog Club in Omaha, NE.
We would like to thank the exhibitors, judges and volunteers for making the Barn Hunt Trials a great success! Photos are now available for viewing / downloading at the photographers website, please click the link below:
Membership Meeting – Omaha Police K9 Unit – October 2019
At the October membership meeting on 10/16, representatives from the Omaha Police K9 Unit gave us a presentation on the Unit’s history and achievements and also gave us a “drug sniffing” demo! Providing the presentation were Officer Jeremy Wedel and his partner K9 Dug from the K9 Unit and Deborah Gombert, the program coordinator for the Friends of the Omaha Police Department K9 Unit. Our thanks to Officers Jeremy Wedel and K9 Dug and to Deb Gombert for a very interesting and informative evening!
To learn more about the Omaha Police K-9 Unit, please click here.
Scent Work Trials – July 2019
Held July 5th – 7th
The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank the exhibitors, judges, and volunteers for making our July Scent Work Trials a great success.
Click here to visit the photographer’s website and view/download photos from the event.
Click here to view a video from the Scent Work Trials. (Our thanks to Irina Harrington for sharing)
Nebraska/Platte Valley Cluster Dog Show – May 2019
Held May 18 – 19, 2019 at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln, NE
The Nebraska Kennel Club and Platte Valley Kennel Club would like to thank all the exhibitors, judges and volunteers for making the first Nebraska Valley Cluster All Breed Dog Show a great success.
Photos from the event can be viewed by clicking here. These are a small selection of candid photos, not Winner’s Photos. If you wish to view Winner’s Photos please click here to visit the website of show photographer Pete Melia.
Below is a small selection of candid photos from the event. For more candid photos please click here to visit our photographer’s website.
Scent Work Trials – December 2018
Held December 8th – 9th, 2018, at Companion Dog Club in Omaha, NE
The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank all the exhibitors, judges, and volunteers who helped make our December 2020 Scent Work Trials a The NKC Scent Work trials were a great success! We would like to thank the exhibitors, judge and all the volunteers for their support!
Photos!
To view photos from the event, please click here to visit the photographer’s website.
NKC Tracking Tests – November 2018
Held November 11, 2018 at the Chalco Hills Recreation Area in Omaha, NE
NKC Tracking Tests were a great success! Our thanks to Judges Jane Jonas and Inge Suchanek, to the exhibitors, and to all the volunteers for their efforts! Congratulations to the winners!
Photos now available! Click here to view!
Barn Hunt Trials – September 2018
Held September 15th – 16th, 2018 at Companion Dog Club in Omaha, NE
The Nebraska Kennel Club would like to thank the judges, volunteers, and exhibitors for their support in making our Barn Hunt Trial a success!
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS
Barn Hunt Practice – September 2018
Held September 1st, 2018, at Companion Dog Club in Omaha, NE
Barn Hunt practice went great! We’d like to thank all the volunteers and participants!
Photos now available!
Visit the photographers website to view photos from the event, including hi-resolution photos suitable for printing.
Scent Work Trials – July 2018
Held July 6 – 8, 2018
The NKC Scent Work Trials were a great success! We would like to thank the Judge, Exhibitors and Volunteers for all the hard work!
PHOTOS NOW AVAILABLE!
Photos are now online at the photographer’s website. Click below to go to the website
Nebraska Kennel Club Dog Show – May 2018
Held May 19th – 20th, 2018
The Nebraska Kennel Club’s 2018 Conformation show was a great success! The NKC would like to thank the Exhibitors, Judges, and all the volunteers for their efforts.
For photos from the event please click here.
For Winners Photos, please visit the website of the Show Photographer Melia Photography
AKC Sanctioned B-OB Matches – January 2018
Held Sunday, January 14th, 2018 at Companion Dog Club in Omaha, NE
For photos from the even, please visit the photographers website.