Keith Carter raises his arm after hearing that his Rottweiler, Ch. Carter's Noble Shaka Zula, won "Best in the Working Dog Class" during the130th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Monday.
Posted on 02/14/2006 10:30:19 AM PST by NYer
NEW YORK - When he was a boy, Hiram Stewart took a bus to Virginia, put a puppy in a paper bag and cradled it all the way home to New Orleans.
For more than three decades, he’s cared for dogs in the Big Easy. Usually champion dogs, the kind that will reach the Best in Show ring this week at Westminster.
Still, nothing prepared him for what he saw happening to pets around town after Hurricane Katrina hit. Like that pair of little beagles with the pleading eyes, chained inside a garage.
“Every time a car would drive by, they’d come out, hoping it was their owner,” Stewart said. “I knew the situation better than those two poor dogs did. It wasn’t going to be just a few days.”
Stewart believes those beagles came out OK. But thousands of their companions didn’t, and America’s most prestigious dog show remembered them — and those who helped — with a moving tribute Monday night at Madison Square Garden.
Hours earlier, the Westminster Kennel Club show started a day after the biggest snowstorm in city history blanketed New York. A total of 2,622 dogs in 165 breeds and varieties were entered — some didn’t make it because of the bad weather, though there was no exact count.
A colored bull terrier named Rufus, the top-winning pug ever, a Rottweiler led by a former Florida State linebacker and a Dalmatian called Boomer were the big winners Monday night.
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Agent Kathy Kirk reacts to her dog's victory as she parades Champion Rocky Top's Sundance Kid, a colored bull terrier, in the terrier group, Monday, Feb. 13, 2006, at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New YorkThe dog won the terrier group. 2:48 p.m. ET, 2/13/06
War on Terrier ping.
Wake me when the hearding group is on so I can watch the corgis (Pembroke and Cardigan).
Called her a b*tch, I think.
Dog's saying, "Do not dub me shaka zula."
Human interest stories.
Only, with dogs.
:0)
Right! See you then.
I heard the the favored Norfolk Terrier was mugged by a Bull terrier..
I'll be watching, too
Here are the group winners that will be competing this evening.
Ch Grangefield Inquisitive
Breed: Welsh Corgi (Cardigan)
Ch Riverside Wicked Wonderful
Breed: Welsh Corgi (Pembroke)
Anything else is just a dog.
I herd that was on tonight.
:{) oops
Wonder if any Muslims will be there to protest the Great Danes. ;-)
It's not fair because Goldens are just the best of the best -- the kindest, most noble breed of them all. All the others are nice, but the Goldens are pure gold!
Max with one of my grandsons. 'Nuff said!
And yes, I like all the others too, but not enough to trade in my rescue Golden.
Is anyone going to post a picture of that handsom Dalmation that won the non-sporting group?
The herding group is on.
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