Handsome boy. Congratulations!!
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Handsome boy. Congratulations!!
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Ooh, he is gorgeous!!
Hansome boy indeed! Congrats to the winners. Can't wait for the videos to be uploaded 
Yay Blade!
He is all around gorgeous, but I especially love his hocks and long second thighs. I think he and Della are the only B's I know with hocks that really catch my eye that way. I can't explain why, they just look really beautiful to me.
-Nicole
Big congrats to all of them, way to go Blade..
And just to plug the Westminster Kennel Club with reasons to go to a responsible breeder, from their website
Buy Dogs From A Breeder
The Westminster Kennel Club continues to firmly believe and advocate that the best source for a puppy or adult dog for your family will always be those responsible breeders who produce puppies with the goal of improving the health and physical traits of that breed. To accomplish that, responsible breeders continuously study their pedigrees and breeding stock, do health checks on all of their dogs involved, properly raise and socialize their puppies, and stand behind their puppies. Responsible breeders are proud of their dogs and participate in activities and organizations that further their knowledge of their breed and their dogs.
As we have for many years during our televised broadcast, The Westminster Kennel Club will continue to make the following announcement: "If you are planning to add a dog to your life and have come to look over the best of the best, please note, no dog you have seen here (yesterday or today) came from a pet shop, or was the 'product', if you will, of a puppy mill. If you want a dog, go to the people who care - the dedicated specialty breeders who have made dogs like those you see here - a lifetime effort. Talk dogs with dog people who care and understand."
Has anybody else spent all day refreshing the videos page online, in hopes of seeing the basenji breed? And is anybody else now frustrated because they're exhausted and really need to go to bed, but you keep staying up for "just 5 more minutes" in hopes it will be loaded by the time you brush your teeth, let the dogs out for the last potty break, etc?
Has anybody else spent all day refreshing the videos page online, in hopes of seeing the basenji breed? And is anybody else now frustrated because they're exhausted and really need to go to bed, but you keep staying up for "just 5 more minutes" in hopes it will be loaded by the time you brush your teeth, let the dogs out for the last potty break, etc?
Join the crowd. I'm just annoyed now.
Thanks for posting the results and the video to watch 
I just want to ask a couple of questions from across the deep dark pond, if I may !!!
Down in the bottom right hand side of the page, it has the entries… I was wondering if those entries correspond to who the actual dog is, we are watching in the ring ??? It looks to me like there are more dogs than entries ???
Who was the Bl/Wh please ???
Last one... Just curious as to the awarding of the AOM. We dont have these down here in Aus at all. Are the 2 dogs that received this award, the 3rd and 4th best dogs, in this judges eye ??? Not as good as the 2 winners, but good enough to make special mention of them ??? I mean no rudeness in this question, I am just really curious about what it is all about :).
Its lovely to watch the video. Everyone talks about how different it is showing in America to the UK but i think it looks pretty similar actually, its just the placings that confuse me!
I just watched the pug judging video… WOW... Pugs are HUGE in america! Whats going on with that? Was not impressed with them at all...
I was impressed that the announcer added a disclaimer in his description of the breed this year. He used the normal description of it being the barkless dog, but caveated it by saying "this dog is not for everyone". Just as the novice hostess commented after the description "why wouldn't everyone want a barkless dog"?
Congratulations Blade.
And glad that the whippet, greyhound, and scottish deerhound won in the hounds group - I was getting tired of the beagles winning. And glad to see the other groups also had "non-traditional winners".
I was encouraged to see how much air time Blade and Erin got - I was thinking maybe that meant they made the cut at least… but not to be.
It just seems fitting though, whenever we have gone to Group, seems like they ALWAYS pull the PBGV and the Whippet in front of and behind us! (In 'regular' groups, they are not alphabetical as they are at Westminster)
Yeah, I thought Blade got a lot of air time Sometimes I feel like if you blink, you'll miss the basenji.
Thanks for posting the results and the video to watch
I just want to ask a couple of questions from across the deep dark pond, if I may !!!
Down in the bottom right hand side of the page, it has the entries… I was wondering if those entries correspond to who the actual dog is, we are watching in the ring ??? It looks to me like there are more dogs than entries ???
Who was the Bl/Wh please ???
Last one... Just curious as to the awarding of the AOM. We dont have these down here in Aus at all. Are the 2 dogs that received this award, the 3rd and 4th best dogs, in this judges eye ??? Not as good as the 2 winners, but good enough to make special mention of them ??? I mean no rudeness in this question, I am just really curious about what it is all about :).
AOM's are award to the ones that were highly being considered for Breed, on that day, not as good as the one the judge picked for breed, but high up in consideration.
You would need to look at the breed entries and see who was absent, then on the video, in the beginning is it according to the catalog numbers as to the order they are shown.
So, in looking at the video, seems they were not in catalog order… need to match the armband with the catalog (if you can make out the armband)
I recently found out Callie's sire, Sundiata's Pi R Squared will be shown! Can't wait to see it!
He's the sire of my Zuri, too
I see 2 of her brothers in him so much!
I love to see all those georgous B's :o
But it's difficult to stop watching, when you see the list of all the interesting breeds :rolleyes:
So, in looking at the video, seems they were not in catalog order… need to match the armband with the catalog (if you can make out the armband)
I don't know if it showed on the video but one of the first things the judge did was put all the boys up front.
He's the sire of my Zuri, too
I see 2 of her brothers in him so much!
Callie has Pi's ears… not fully upright when she's relaxed. I call her Gremlin sometimes
