I was just speaking with my friend Colin, which we do every couple days. Most of the time we talk about news going on at the shows. Colin is very intuitive and tends to know what’s going on before most, so it’s really a gossip catch-up, which is always fun, LOL. On this day he was going on about a Facebook post he read. In the post, the person was starting a new venture. Colin clearly thought they were not experienced enough in that field to go ahead with such a project.
Researchers have unraveled more information about the genetic POMC mutation that makes some Labrador Retrievers perpetually hungry.
There come times in our lives when we have the responsibility to take a good look at where we are, where we have been, and where we should be going.
Westminster is, by nature, a fairly shocking experience. But it turns out that even the seasoned professionals are not immune to some mental shakeups in this curious environment.
The main tenet of the dog show was founded on the premise of “evaluating breeding stock”… Sure, it started out with Sportsmen comparing their hunting dogs because they thought theirs were better than the others. That sort of thinking is still in play to this very day, with a few thousand variations. But there is one thing that has never changed, and that is every dog has/had a breeder!
Goldilocks may have thought the wolf had a big brain, but alas, not so much the dog.
The very first Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers, two of them, arrived here from Ireland in 1946. Interest in the breed was not forthcoming however, and, although they were shown the following year at Westminster, early efforts to earn breed recognition met with defeat.
I’d never seen a hotel with its face ripped off, a scatter of metal, brick, and branches strewn across the lawn. The nine-mile ride from Houston’s Hobby Airport to the NRG Center was a grim reminder of Hurricane Beryl’s path. Just ten days before the Houston shows and seminars, Beryl came to town and left its mark. But the show club members and the DJAA continued to work through it amid difficult circumstances.
Some win photo’s are easier to come by than others. And those darn trollies… Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle TV!
During my time as an exhibitor, then professional handler, I had the good fortune of showing under some judges I consider to be the finest dog men and women of their time.
