Find A Club
You must join DVG America through an DVG America club. As a club member, you can participate in local trials, and you get a subscription to DVG America Magazine. In addition, you may hold local, regional, and national office, and participate in the regional and national championships. Local club fees will vary.
DVG clubs are located throughout the United States and Canada. To locate a club near you, click on the area of the map that corresponds to your region. Or select your region from the list above.
If there is no nearby club, contact one of the regional officers for help.
You may also choose to start your own club! Instructions are here. To assist you with paperwork, policies and any other questions you may have concerning forming a new club, you can email our Forming Club Assistant, Melissa Hepler
DVG has several categories of members, and different categories have different dues amounts. Click here for a table that illustrates the categories and associated dues. Club dues and / or fees would be in addition to these amounts.
- North (USA - CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA**, VT, WV) (CANADA - NB, ON, QC)
- Southeast (AL, FL, GA, MD, MS, NC, SC, VA**)
- Midwest (AR, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, OK, SD, TN, TX, WI)
- West (USA - AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY) (CANADA - AB , BC)
*States contains clubs belonging to both North and Southeast KGs
Can’t find a club in your area?
Start your own DVG America club! Email our “Forming Club Assistant”, Melissa Hepler
jmhepler@comcast.net
DVG stands for Deutscher Verband der Gebrauchshundsportvereine, or the German Association of Working Dog Sport Clubs. DVG is the oldest and largest Schutzhund training organization in the world. Begun in 1903, DVG was Germany's first police and service dog club and has now grown to nearly 30,000 members. DVG exists for only one purpose -- training and titling dogs of all kinds. In addition to Schutzhund and advanced tracking degrees, it offers obedience and tracking titles, providing competition opportunities for all people who love to train dogs, even the smallest of breeds.
DVG is made up of fourteen geographic regions (Landesverbands), thirteen of which are in Germany. The fourteenth is LV DVG America. The American Landesverband is divided into four local regions (Kreisgruppen), whose presidents sit on the LV Board.
LV DVG America sends a representative to Germany each year to the annual business meeting to vote on Board and membership affairs.
What is DVG?
