BELMONT — Jennifer Wood of Franklin has been preparing for the 4-H Dog Show at the Belknap County Fair for months. She has competed in dog shows for the past four years, and this year the 16-year-old, who goes by Jenny, adopted two new dogs, a German shepherd named Apollo in January, and a border collie named Percy in December. Jenny has put a lot of time into training her new pets.

“You're training them all year round, basically. And I think a lot of people go to a fair, and they see the cool animals, and they just kind of assume that they're bred that way or something,” Jenny said. “We put a lot of hours into not only caring for them, but training for them, and that goes through all the species.”

4-H, which stands for head, heart, hands and health, is a youth development organization p

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