Westminster Dog Show

The Messiah lives!

 

wha? beagle or beagel?

and anything's better than another fuckin' poodle

 

I watched part of one dog show (Kentucky basketball) before finding the real thing.

Any of 'em except that poodle.

 

I've always disliked the dog-show scenario. Breeding dogs just for their looks, rather than brains and noses, just creates more Britney Spears of dogdom. Working dogs and field trials are a whole 'nother thing, though. Nothing like watching someone put a retriever through its paces from 100 yards using only visual and aural signals. Beats watching somebody trot around a ring with a leashed, pampered pooch, IMHO.

 

Absolutely. Great to see the love for the beagle here. They are great, great dogs and Uno is a deserving winner.

Uno rocks. Pure and simple. What a cool dog.

It's about freakin' time that a dog that doesn't exist merely to shake and piss all day, a dog that is actually a dog and not a blown-up gerbil, a dog that doesn't look like you can wipe your ass with it and cast it aside got the props it so richly deserved.

Mrs. Birdscribe and I used to watch Westminster religiously. For seven consecutive years, she picked the Best in Show based on looking at the anal, snobby judges. Seven freakin' years of looking at the judge, listening to that toady David Frei or the late Roger Caras slobber over the gerbil or gerbils du jour and picking that dog.

As for breeds, give me a beagle, boxer or that cool rastadog -- the komondor -- anyday.

 

We've got a full-blooded beagle in our house. When the breed won last night, we went and woke ours and got it drunk. Figured it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime things, like when the Bears win the Super Bowl.

On a related note, our beagle fuckin' loves Grolsch.

 

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As newbie, I hesitate to correct someone of your august stature on thie board. But those are fox hounds, not beagles.

 

NOT POO-dle!? !?

 

Please hand in your man card on the way out

 

I'm looking forward to next year when a German Shepherd wins. It's been 21 years — they're due.

 

So has it really been 21 years, or just three?