During early years of the 21^st century a small group of well known chowists decided to form the North Florida Chow Chow Club. Although the membership was small, they had a history of being active Chow fanciers.

Our first year of activity consisted primarily of trying to get new members and drum up enthusiasm for our club. We started with a chairperson and a recording secretary to organize our meetings. A decision was made to keep it this way until membership had increased to the point where we could have elections.

Before you knew it, we were able to start having fun matches. These seemed to go over very well and created the kind of excitement our club was looking for. People who had not been a part of the club, showed up for the matches and from there joined the club.

By the time our first year ended we had enough members to have elections. We were able to fill the positions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and three board members.

We immediately forged a constitution and sent it to the AKC for approval along with official recognition of the clubs name. Within a couple of months our club name (North Florida Chow Chow Club) was accepted and we were an official AKC club.