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French Bulldog wins top prize at National Dog Show

Well, it’s my favorite day of the year. Uh, you gather around all of these dogs, as I mentioned, 2000 of them, more than 200 different breeds. They’re all in the back uh, backstage area, uh, in their breed competitions. And you know, you’ll see 75 of the best German shepherds you’ve ever seen All competing just to be the top Shepherd to go into the group competition to hopefully get into the best in show competition. So, it’s *** very competitive day. It’s uh, but the nice thing about it is when you put 30,000 people that are in there, in the arena, out there in oaks Pennsylvania, uh, and 2000 dogs in the same room. Everybody’s having the best day of their lives, everybody’s smiling, everybody’s happy. And it underscores what dogs do for us in our lives. They round off the edges, they take the otherwise brittle ends of our lives and screw them out. It really, you know, it really is true and it’s, it’s, it’s uh, they’ve adapted as we’ve adapted. Uh People, people just love the dogs and, and it carries on to the actual day that we uh share the event on thanksgiving day. Uh, we encourage people to send in videos to us and I gotta tell you, I am, I am *** laughingstock watching these dogs, some of them will sit on the sofa, they will watch the show intently, they will hop down, walk over to the television set in the corner of the room, sniff the television set and then walk around to the back of the tv set, looking for the actual dog because they know it’s there. The perfect dog. My son asked *** question, as little boys do of me and my wisdom and all that I knew, is there *** dog that is perfect? He asked on *** whim. Well, I thought, and I thought about where to begin. He’d have ears that were floppy or cropped and alert and eyes that were sleepy, who are perky and Burt the, but they have been, there was one particular one where *** handler uh, looked the other way for *** moment and let slip the, the uh, the leash and this dog decided to make *** run for it and ran around the arena for four or five full laps. And it was hysterical because nobody could stop the dog. It was just, I’m sorry, I’ve had it, I’ve gotta make my run here. It’s just too too slow for me. So anyway, the dog was finally back in the hands of the handler, went fine. But the funniest one was truly when one year in the best of show competition. Now, that’s the seven best dogs and the great dane was chosen as one of those best dogs and they’re all competing for best in show. So they had their, their moment of time to run through the arena and they’re introduced individually. Well, the great dane comes by the NBC desk there, the where David and I are broadcasting from and stops and looks me right in the eye And squats down and leaves *** pile on the floor. That you wouldn’t believe. It took *** hazmat team to come out and clean it up. It stopped the show for 20 minutes and it was, I had I died because that dog was looking me right in the eye. And just, I think it was an editorial comment. That’s the way I took The dog that is perfect. Would be covered in spots or maybe one color and then have spots. Not it’d be small as *** teacup or big as *** house with *** nose that seemed flattened or wrong as *** mouse. It’s women. He’d hunt with *** coat flying free or be dainty and delicate and he’d be *** she as I struggled to answer and not with *** clue. My son with *** smile set out of the blue with the wisdom of Children, but he already knew the dog that is perfect. Is the one next to you

French Bulldog wins top prize at National Dog Show

Who’s a good boy? This year, it’s Winston.Winston the French Bulldog won Best in Show, the top spot, at this year’s 21st Annual National Dog Show presented by Purina. Winston is the first French Bulldog to ever win the competition’s top prize.”They have cornered the market on energy, enthusiasm and just pure spunk,” show host John O’Hurley said of Winston and his handler, Perry Payson.Winston beat out hundreds of dogs to win Thursday’s prize. The Kennel Club of Philadelphia’s dog show airs every Thanksgiving following the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and is the most-watched dog show in the country. The dogs sometimes train for years in an effort to win the national title.Last year, Claire — a Scottish Deerhound — made history as the first dog to win the top title two years in a row. Every year, the dogs compete against other dogs in their breed to determine the best in breed. Then, all those winners compete against each other at the group stage — Sporting, Hound, Working, Terrier, Toy, Non-Sporting and Herding. The seven very best dogs in their group then compete to win best in show.This year is the first to feature the Mudi and Russian Toy, two newly recognized breeds. But this isn’t Winston’s first bout with fame: He also competed in the Westminster Dog show earlier this year.

Who’s a good boy? This year, it’s Winston.

Winston the French Bulldog won Best in Show, the top spot, at this year’s 21st Annual National Dog Show presented by Purina. Winston is the first French Bulldog to ever win the competition’s top prize.

“They have cornered the market on energy, enthusiasm and just pure spunk,” show host John O’Hurley said of Winston and his handler, Perry Payson.

Winston beat out hundreds of dogs to win Thursday’s prize. The Kennel Club of Philadelphia’s dog show airs every Thanksgiving following the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and is the most-watched dog show in the country. The dogs sometimes train for years in an effort to win the national title.

Last year, Claire — a Scottish Deerhound — made history as the first dog to win the top title two years in a row.

Every year, the dogs compete against other dogs in their breed to determine the best in breed. Then, all those winners compete against each other at the group stage — Sporting, Hound, Working, Terrier, Toy, Non-Sporting and Herding. The seven very best dogs in their group then compete to win best in show.

This year is the first to feature the Mudi and Russian Toy, two newly recognized breeds.

But this isn’t Winston’s first bout with fame: He also competed in the Westminster Dog show earlier this year.