Westminster Kennel Club – Non-Sporting Best of Breed List Monday, February 11, 2019 New York, New York ***Check back throughout the day as we update the Best of Breed list!*** American Eskimo Dog Bichon Frise Boston Terrier Bulldog Chinese Shar-Pei Chow Chow Coton de Tulear Dalmatian Finnish Spitz French Bulldog Keeshonden Lhasa Apso Lowchen Norwegian [...]
Westminster Kennel Club – Herding Best of Breed List Monday, February 11, 2019 New York, New York ***Check back throughout the day as we update the Best of Breed list!*** Australian Cattle Dog Australian Shepherd Bearded Collie Beauceron Belgian Malinois Belgian Sheepdog Belgian Tervuren Bergamasco Berger Picard Border Collie Bouvier des Flandres Briard Canaan [...]
Show Name: Central Indiana Kennel Club, Inc. Location: Indianapolis, IN Show Date: Saturday, February 9, 2019 Total Entry: 1638 Best In Show Judge: Mr. Houston Clark Show Photographer(s): Booth Photo • Website: www.boothshowphoto.com Dog Reg: GCHG Chesterhope Never Ask Why For Daykeyne [Dog] Breed: Pointer Handler: Mark Bettis Owner: T Buckley & J & J [...]
The most likely theory about the origin of the Sennenhunde (mountain dogs) in Switzerland is that they descended from dogs that traveled from the ancient Far East via Epirus and Greece to Italy.
They are frozen in time and sometimes deceptively real. Perpetuated in stone or bronze, looking over water, streets, parks or squares, dog statues can be found all over the world.
Europe’s most important show (after the World Dog Show, which is often held in Europe, but not every year) the Europe Dog Show, has large entries–in lighter years 7-8,000, and 12-14,000 dogs in stronger years. Much depends on the time of year, judges, host city, etc. This year’s show was held at a good time, more or less in central Europe, had a good judge list, and drew more than 15,000 dogs.
Let’s face it. The judging business has been suffering through quite a dry spell in recent years. Nothing highlights that sad fact more drastically than a little walk back to the days when this sport had so many great judges; we’ve forgotten half of them.
Okay, ladies, if I refer to “LBDs”, I am sure you know precisely what I mean. For the uninitiated, “LBDs” are little black dresses. Our closets have several at any given time. There is often an occasion that requires us to reach into the closet or to run out to shop for one.
It’s that time of year again. Westminster is looming large. So let’s take a look at what’s waiting in the wings. In other words, who’s judging? The headlin- ers really don’t need much of an introduc- tion but here’s a brief rundown just to get us in the mood.
When Bo, my young Chesapeake Bay Retriever, finished his junior hunter title last summer, the conservative cost figure for each of those ribbons, I thought, was probably about a thousand bucks apiece. However, when I took a look at my tax summaries for the past two years, it was clear that I underestimated the cost of each of those ribbons by about one-third!
