America's Dog

10 Comments POSTED ON Feb 13 2008 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

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Uno is the first beagle ever to win the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Snoopy and Underdog are cheering.

“He’s a people’s dog, a merry little hound,” Wilkerson said.

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John A. Walsh says:

02/13/2008 at 9:29 am

Heidi, you and Andrew Sullivan seem to be thinking along the same lines…

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/the-beagle-ha-1.html
Lea Hernandez says:

02/13/2008 at 9:41 am

We are proud beagle owners here, in spite of the fact that our merry little dog was brought home by the dogcatcher last week.
Alan Coil says:

02/13/2008 at 10:16 am

The look in his eyes says it all:

I’M THE BEST AND YOU CAN LICK MY B@!!$.
Patrick Dean says:

02/13/2008 at 10:44 am

I heard he bribed the judges with an Andrew Wyeth original.
Edward Liu says:

02/13/2008 at 11:15 am

I thought the look on his eyes was saying, “I’d much rather be napping” or “I really wish that guy would get his hand off my ass.”
Chris says:

02/13/2008 at 12:15 pm

That dog is going to do a lot of “breeding”.
Mark Coale says:

02/13/2008 at 12:42 pm

“turn your head and bark”
michael says:

02/13/2008 at 3:41 pm

wow, the first beagle? and for a “merry little hound”, he sure doesn’t look it. But that’s probably due to the long hours of being prodded by everyone.

On a side note, if you ever want to hang with some fun people, go out drinking around the area bars when the show is in the city, they are a pretty fun bunch of out-of-towners.
Alan Coil says:

02/13/2008 at 9:43 pm

I used to participate in dog shows and met some pretty nice people, but I never associated much with the people that show dogs at Westminster, because most of the dogs at that show are owned by the rich.
michael says:

02/15/2008 at 7:14 pm

I guess I was hanging with some of the less rich. :) I remember them telling me that there was some black tie formal thing going on, but they were not into all the formal things for the show.