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Dog Shows

2012 Westminster Dog Show Non-Sporting Group Results

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Moving on to the Non-Sporting Dogs.

Reminding you of my picks:

  • Bichon Dognews Got to Get You Into My Life (“Phil”)
  • Chow Chow Dreamland’s American Revolution (“Jefferson”)
  • Shiba Inu Fanfair’s Without a Trace at Glenchester (“Tracer”)

And here are the dogs picked by the professionals as Best of Breed, leading to their inclusion in the Best of Group judging:

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Dog Shows

2012 Westminster Dog Show Toy Group Results

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The Toy Group Winner has been named!

First, to remind you of my picks:

  • The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Sheeba Mark Twain (“Tom-Tom”) – Received an Award of Merit!
  • The Pomeranian:  Dreamweavers Dirty Dancing (“Johnny”)
  • The Pug Kenshei’s That’s the Way It Is (“Walter”)

Here’s who actually won Best in Breed and advanced to the Toy Group ring:

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Dog Shows

Handicapping Westminster

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While they only name breeds, not specific dogs, the oddsmakers in Las Vegas have chosen a winner for the big Westminster Dog Show, which starts tonight.

The “Wizard of Odds”, Johnny Avello, has predicted the correct breed as winner for the past five years. This year, his top pick is the Smooth Fox Terrier, at 6 – 1 odds. His other favorites are the Pekingese (7 – 1) and the Boxer (8 – 1). Here’s the complete list.

And how could he go wrong with a Terrier? Dogs from this group have won Best in Show titles in 46 of the 135-year history of Westminster shows.

The Hound, Toy, Non-Sporting, and Herding group competition will be televised live Monday on USA Network from 8-9 PM ET and continuing on CNBC from 9-11 PM ET. The Sporting, Working, Terrier, and Best In Show competition will be televised live Tuesday on USA Network from 8-11 PM ET.

If you can’t get to a television during the show, check in here frequently. I’ll be live-blogging the winners of each group as they are broadcast.

Check out my picks in the new issue of our bi-weekly newsletter,  Straight Poop, and feel free to comment below on who you think will win!

Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!

Dog News

Special Boy; Special Dog

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Michele Asselin for The New York Times
When a friend referred me to this article from the NY Times, I glanced at it and the first thing I noticed was that it was 8 pages long.  Since I have the attention span of a housefly, I couldn’t imagine reading the whole thing, but I was hooked from the first paragraph.  As an adoptive mother of disabled children, I recognized the struggles this Atlanta family was facing after adopting a boy and a girl from Russia.
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Dog Fun

Mexican Lion Dog

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I have no idea whether or not this is true, but here’s the scoop from TaurusArmed.com. This is the story of a Garage Owner in the East of Northampton who gave his dog a haircut.

He was sick and tired of thieves breaking into his garage shop to steal tools, etc.

So he came up with this idea to give his dog a haircut. He put the word out that he had a new Mexican Lion that would attack anyone that tried to break in or climb his fence.

Would-be thieves saw the “Lion” from a distance and fled the scene.

See below for the pix.
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