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The Biggest Woofs from The Westminster Dog Show
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is a canine institution, celebrating it's 136th year in 2012. This year, as always, the competition was biting, the participants were top-notch (and adorable) and the potty breaks were plentiful. Check out the choicest bits of kibble from this year's show, including the top dogs, a…
NEW YORK, (AFP) -- It has been around for over 3,000 years, but Mexico's famous, usually hairless, "Xolo" dog is making a big splash as a "new breed" at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show here this week. Tiny Chabella, descended from a breed the Aztecs considered sacred, is representing the Xoloitzcuintli (which means "hairless dog" or more broadly "dog of the god Xolotl") for the first time at the show. The event packs Madison Square Garden and is considered the second-oldestUS sporting event after horseracing's Kentucky Derby. This year, the show is welcoming six breeds into its ranks for the first time, even though the Xolo is a household name in Mexico, if not next door in the United ...
GCH Pawsinn Threeponds Lancelot (Lance) winning his Newfoundland Best in Breed title. Lynn Nuss The ribbons have been awarded, the dogs have gone home, and the green carpet's been put away for another year, as two days of canine celebritydom ended Tuesday night in New York City. The 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show culminated in Scottish deerhound Hickory's triumphant Best in Show win at Madison Square Garden. It was the first time the breed had captured the purple and gold ribbon and silver bowl at Westminster. Five-year-old female Hickory took a victory lap around Manhattan on Wednesday -- including appearances on various TV shows, a steak lunch at famed Midtown restaurant Sardi's ...
War hero Rhonda Cornum with her dog, Amber, at Madison Square Garden. Damon Dahlen, AOL When you've been shot in the back and captured by the enemy after your helicopter was shot down in a war zone, a dog contest, no matter how competitive, must present little to be fearful of. Just ask Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, a prisoner of war in the first Iraq conflict in 1990 and more recently the owner of Amber, a Gordon setter entrant in the 2011 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. The 56-year-old -- born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., and now living near the Pentagon in Virginia -- was a pilot on a search-and-rescue mission when she was taken prisoner. She was held for a week before being ...
Damon Dahlen, AOL The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show welcomed six new breeds in 2011, and none was more popular on the opening Monday than the redbone coonhound. Crowds flocked to ring five at 11 a.m. ET to see the finest examples of the breed -- known for its agility and muscular build -- grace the green carpet at Madison Square Garden in New York City. And top prize for the newest breed on the block went to Rufus, a beautiful and playful 14-month-old redbone coonhound from Kentucky. ...
Booth As many pet owners know, sometimes you don't choose the dog: The dog chooses you. That was the case for Chicago-area resident Larry Lentz who, through a number of unusual and almost fateful circumstances, went from grieving pet owner to Iraqi War vet to boxing gym owner and handler of a No. 1 in all-breed points Chesapeake Bay retriever. Lentz will be showing his best friend, Moose, at the Westminster Dog Show tomorrow. ...