Westminster Dog Show

[The AD]

Anyone else watch it last night? Some beautiful dogs won best in group. There was a GSD, a doberman, a dalmatian, an Irish setter, etc. And the winner ends up being a Pekingese! Come on, this isn't a dog, it's a dust mop!

[stuckathuntermtn]

That looks like something you could put on a stick and use to dust hard to reach places.

It's fun to watch dog shows sometimes, but I really hate what the breeding has done to dogs. Look at that scrunched face. Recipe for disaster.

[hutash]

"Best in Show" was not a comedy, it was a 100% accurate documentary.

That dog proves it.

[Skistack]

"Best in Show" was not a comedy, it was a 100% accurate documentary.

That dog proves it.

"And to think that in some countries these dogs would be eaten"

[smmokan]

I can't believe that damn dog won best in show. What a joke.

Answer me this... how are some of these breeds "purebred"? The announcers made a comment several times last night that "this breed actually has parts of breed x, y, and z." Wouldn't that make it a goddamn mutt? Not that there's anything wrong with mutts, but holy shit- some of the "breeds" they've created are pretty obvious mixes.

[grskier]

Every breed is a mix of this and that... A mutt is a dog that is several breeds, a pure bred is a dog that has parents of the same breed.. if you had two mutts of the same exact breeds, and bred them, you could have the first generation of a new breed so to speak.. it's more complex than that, but it's the general idea.

[OSECS]

I can't believe that damn dog won best in show. What a joke.

Answer me this... how are some of these breeds "purebred"? The announcers made a comment several times last night that "this breed actually has parts of breed x, y, and z." Wouldn't that make it a goddamn mutt? Not that there's anything wrong with mutts, but holy shit- some of the "breeds" they've created are pretty obvious mixes.

Man, that's just racist....

[Tippster]

"Best in Show" was not a comedy, it was a 100% accurate documentary.

That dog proves it.

After the dog show I was on an El Al flight to Haifa faster than a walnut could roll off a henhouse roof.

[BmillsSkier]

I like watching the shows to see some beautiful dogs. I'm not anti small breeds either. They're judged against a standard, not against other dogs, just like every other one in the show. So it's not that some tiny, yippy dog beat out my prefered breeds, but just that some small yippy dog conformed better to that dog's standard than everyone else. Keep that in mind and you'll get less upset watcing conformation shows.

Now, I personally dislike that there never seems to be any Border Collie love in these things. Some attribute it to a split in BC people, some hate having them in conformation shows and prefer to judge them on their working ability and smarts and this hesitancy seems to have bled over to shows like Westminster.

[The AD]

Despite poking fun at the winner, I do enjoy watching the show because of the sheer diversity of dog breeds. There are some really cool dogs. OK, some not so cool, but different strokes for different folks...

that some small yippy dog conformed better to that dog's standard than everyone else.

True, and I'm sure experts on these breeds can tell the difference, but to us laymen we're thinking "looks like a little lump of fur with a pug face, just like every other Pekingese..."

[toast2266]

Fucking dog has papers dude.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Well, I was at my usually Starbucks on my mac, and he was across the street at another Starbucks on his mac...

[userA]

i like the dogs but cringe at the folks showing these animals.
most look like hunched over trolls scooting around the ring, kibbles in their mouth coaxing their charge to look it's best.
just hoping for better
bobby

[L7]

I like watching but christ some breeds piss me off. Not so much the dog, more what they do to them. I watched the Eukanuba show recently and a German Shepard won best in group but could barely fucking walk. Setters and spaniels are bred to hunt not sweep crumbs off the floor with their coats. If a terrier uses crazy glue and hair gel to accentuate the muzzle then it just doesn't have the muzzle they want. I've seen labs win that ANY normal person could tell are too fat. They had a service dog group with an awesome looking Shepard that could walk with normal hips and the announcer says the group winner has low hips to help with balance...... it couldn't fucking walk normal.

[sidewall]

This was a cool dog from 2010

[milton]

[fool]

Apparently there was a dog in the Westminster Dog Show that also just ran/is about to run the Iditarod. I couldn't find it online but I heard it on the radio...pretty damn cool.

[DeeAre]

"Oh yea... the bitch.... Pekingnese, hyperactive, lost in Highland Park area. She was half-dead when I found her."

[skifishbum]

^^
thats cool he/she should have won
one year a newfy won
why would lewis and clark take a yapper dustmop on an epic journey to explore the west?

[BmillsSkier]

This was a cool dog from 2010

Shiba-inu, I think? Neighbor's got one if that's the name. Cool dog. Good size.

Fucking great!

Apparently there was a dog in the Westminster Dog Show that also just ran/is about to run the Iditarod. I couldn't find it online but I heard it on the radio...pretty damn cool.

Fucking cool!

why would lewis and clark take a yapper dustmop on an epic journey to explore the west?

Why would Tibetan monks have Lhasa-apsos guarding the temple? Every dog has a purpose.

[Downbound Train]

I was bummed that a Guinea Pig won.

I thought that Dalmation was bad ass.

[fishbenk]

Colbert's take on the dog show.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...xrs=share_copy

[f2f]

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Norwegian Elkhounds never win at these shows.

[skifishbum]

Why would Tibetan monks have Lhasa-apsos guarding the temple?

obviously because they didn't have anything worth stealing
or they would have a real guard dog