So I know this happened over a week ago, but we up here in the great white North didn’t seem to get access to the show till this weekend. Or maybe I just missed it o.O. I have never really watched a show before, honestly, I guess because I never really caught it. Though there was something that struck me odd about the show, the crowd’s favorite seemed to be the Affenpinscher- who won, and the Old English Sheepdog- who came in 2nd.
Every time they were shown the crowd went wild.Now I realize in that crowd there is a lot of dog experts, but I also know there is mostly just dog lovers. It also seemed clear that they were cheered because, a) the Affenpinscher is so fricken cute, and unique looking and b) the OESD looked like the cutest fluffiest teddy bear. So when the final judge declared the winner’s and they just so happened to be the crowd’s favorite, it made me think, what do they even judge on… Now I am not saying they aren’t deserving of course (I couldn’t help a inside cheer for these two cuties as well) but it was just a thought.. Has anyone else seen it? Anyways the main thing I wanted to focus on was their names!
Now, it is always fun to watch every breed get introduced, but since I can’t put 100+ pictures on here, well I could I guess….. But I decided to focus on the group winners.
Hound group: Day 1: Pandora’s Box (American foxhound)
Toy group Day 1: Banana Joe (Affenpinscher)….pretty darn cute
Herding Day one: Bugaboo Picture Perfect– Reserve winner! (I.need.to.hug.now!)(Old English Sheepdog)
Non sporting group Day 1: Honour to Pillowtalk (Bichon Frises)
Sporting group Day 2: Rip snorter silver charm (wow…) (German whitehaired)
Working group day 2: Claircreek Impression de Matisse (Portugese waterdog)
Terrier Day 2 : Slyfox’s sneek a peak (Fox terrier)- My personal favortie if you can see why
Now obviously, for most of them anyways this is not their “domestic name” ,The fox terrier for example was often called simply “Adam” in the show. But my question is…. if your dog was somehow in the Westminster kennel club (even if he is a mix!) what would his official name be?!
Signing off from Lea and Kirby…or should I say Lea and Monsieur du PDA (pretty darn cute) XD
Oh man! I almost forgot to mention about the wonderful award Clowie at Clowie’s corner gave me! It is quite impressive! And I am so honoured, thanks Clowie, it will appear on my right-side of beautiful award badges!
I pass this award to Dogdaz,
meowmeowmans A.KA. Animal shelter volunteer
Thanks for the blog hop Snoopy!
Kirbysdawgblog 
Adorable 🙂
Thanks Moggies!
I’m a rescue and a product of a puppy mill in Mexico. I’ve always been just “Kyla” and I have no pretensions about a fancy name. I’ll play along with this and choose “Kyla the well-fed”.
Aren’t they all gorgeous 🙂 what fun.. We have never been to a dog show, perhaps they will have one in the summer here. Big congratulations on the beautiful award. xx00xx
Mollie and Alfie
Banana Joe is very cute – I’d never heard of an Affenpinscher till he won. I often wonder how they judge when they get to the stages where they have mixture of dogs – they are so different.
yea that’s what I wonder…..
Oh I had to look again, the German Wirehaired Pointer won the Sporting group, (not Herding). GWP are sporting dogs. 🙂
Our dogs have pretty long names and many times a dog will carry the name of the kennel that bred it. You want a unique name because the AKC will only allow so many dog’s with the same name. They need a way to differentiate dogs. Some people will put parent’s names in the offspring. Our dogs are registered with the AKC so if they ever go to Westminster, they would use their AKC names, (which I have on my blog) and they would get to include their titles. 🙂
The Old English Sheepdog (Herding Group) was a crowd favorite because it was a class dog (meaning not yet a Champion) which went all the way up to compete in Best of Show at Westminster. That never happens. Mostly because this year they allowed class dogs to compete when normally it is just Champions. Not sure if they will do this in the future or not. I think they were trying it out this year.
Ahhhh I see, see I don’t know all the background on it. I think they should if it played out so well this year! And thanks for noticing, I put herding twice for some reason….o.O fixed it though!
I really had to think about that GWP…lol. Getting older, I am. And laughing about names, Freighter is “SRR’s Northern Gales Of November”. When we registered him with AKC, there were enough boxes for all of the letters. However, we also registered him with the UKC (United Kennel Club) so he can run those hunt tests. Well they have less boxes and we had no idea. Too late to change the AKC name. So his UKC name is just SRR’s Northern Gales November…lol…silly!
Ahh I love that name! It actually sounds quite eloquent, but not in a pretentious way, just like a line in a poem or something 🙂
If you are curious how we named our dogs, I did a post on it last January when we got Freighter. It is sort of long, but the name part is toward the bottom….scroll down. 🙂
I’m Baxter, of the Barkingburgh Biscuit family. I have Old English Sheep Dog characteristics, but there’s more floating around in my gene pool. I’ll say, “Sheep Biscuit”?
Ohhh I like that one!
Those are some beautiful dogs! Congrats on the award!
Oink oink,
Katie and Coccolino the mini pig
Eko would be Pineapple Frank
I literally would not be able to think of a better name if I tried, the randomness of it is truly remarkable!
I don’t think I want to know what I’ll be called if I was entered into a dog show. Those are such strange names! BOL.
Congratulations on your award!
I like the old english sheep dog – he looks cool – but the best of all is just KIRBY, that’s for sure ;o) Congratulations to this wonderful Award :o)
Kirby gets my vote
Thanks Speedy! I always knew rabbit’s were the best judge of …….character!
Lordy knows what names the peeps would close/ Lucky for us she has no such opportunity. Looks like a great show. Have a marvelous Monday.
Best wishes Molly
I was just going to say you would end up with a pretty regal one I bet! XD
Pure breed names are always so odd and pretentious, but I think they pretty much have to be. My babies would be: Flash in the Pan and Patches on the Elbows and Cheeks. Or something. But they’re mutts, so they’ll just continue to be Flash and Patches. 🙂
We watch the dog show here and there but we are more the boycotting type since my breed is not even there yet…grrr…and my Kuvasz sister’s breed never wins so it is not all that fun. We feel there is lots of “politics” behind it all anyway.
I would boycott it to Emma it really is about time you get in there!
When I saw Banana Joe’s picture on your Monday Mischief linky, I thought you’d dyed your hair and restyled it! LOL And when I was watching the show and heard ol’ Joe’s name, I thought it sounded kinda like a racehorse name. 😉 I think you’d win for Cutest In Show – they should add that category!
Hahahahah XD I think so too, Kirby though I think he’d enter himself in the herding category as he has a thing for like to herd small insects and such
Congrats on the award Kirby!
Looks like a great show 🙂 As to what do they judge them on, I should think it’s conformation – how close they are to their breed standard. That said, from my own experience of dog shows it’s unfortunately more often based on who you know. ie if you’re a judge in one class and you know someone in that class will be judging your breed/class later then it’s pretty much a dead cert’ that that person will win regardless of the quality of the dog. Likewise if you happen to know the judge and have a good relationship with him/her there’s every chance you’re dog will be placed 1st or very close. Again regardless of quality of dog. Not very fair but very prevalent at higher ranking shows in particular. Though I’ve seen it occur very obviously at times even at little local family shows.
there’s even politics in the dog world! I see why wolves lives are way better already..
Those are some pretty fancy pups! If I was a show dog I guess my name might be One Blue Remington Roo, or something like that 🙂
And thank you oh so much for sharing your award with me!!
I have no idea how they come up with their fancy names for purebreds lol! I wouldn’t even know where to begin with a name for Shiner… Shiner-Kins Lick-a-lot sounds good.
That sounds like it would fit right in!
I think Princess Gracie and Prince Henri are just fine! Banana Joe was a cutie though!
Those are mouthfuls of names. We our glad our Lady didn’t get ideas from them! Lee and Phod
The fox terrier was my favorite! He looks like I would look if I were pure bred and perfect, and not mixed with 6 other dogs and possibly a chimp or a donkey, like Mom says.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Well I think the Affenpinscher takes home the prize for being chimp-like haha so no worry for cupcake there. Yea isn’t his markings just soo cool?!
Thank you so much for the honor. We so appreciate it.
As for being show dogs, we are hybrid multi-breeds and we do not do beauty pageants. Mom says that we are all beautiful in our own way and that perfection is about spirit not flesh (or fur). Dog shows are about making a dog externally perfect based on a set of criteria for a breed. Though we do like to watch the show dogs do their stuff and they do look kind of happy and waggy with their handlers, we think that it is bad public relations for the rest of us. I think you have an interesting take on the crowd part and will think about that. – Lulu Belle and Sofie Bear
I totally know what you mean, out of the five dogs my family and I have had only one has been a purebred and she was a rescue. I myself, love what uniqueness blended breeds have to offer, but I also enjoyed learning about about the dogs in the show 🙂
We watched the first part to see the Dachshunds and then the end to see who won best in snow. That Banana Joe was a real cutie!
Hehe thats what usually end up happening with us! Catch the last 15 minutes!
Eeoww Kirby! Az you can guess da Mum lubbed da Foxhound “Pandora’s Box”….she waz cheerin fer her all thru da show 😉
We lubz yer fancy name!! You iz a winner in our bookz!!!!
xoxo Nylablue n SherriEllen xoxo
I would make a horrible judge because they are all winners to me! Our Millie’s iAKC official name is Mildred Maid of the Mist. I know not very original but my grandparents were Canadian and I loved them both dearly and ” Oh Canada” was already taken! P. S. Please keep Oceana in your thoughts today she is having surgery to remove a 4 cm lipoma. Thank you!
Oh no, I most definetly will Seville! I hope Oceana gets through it with out any complications. Though I am happy you guys have found it and know at least how to take care of it! Let me know her update! P.s I love the name Oceana, and I think Mildred maid of the mist is excellent!
Thank you so very much for expressing your concern about Oceana,she did great and is home recovering! Hugs to Kirby from us !
Oh, Ma was SOOOOO excited to see the Old English Sheepdog in the finals!!! She use to have one, and apparently she just LOVED that doggie to death (not literally , of course!! bol). Her name was Panda (she had panda markings) Von Pooh Pooh. How’s that for ‘pretentious’!! hehehe
Anyhu, I’m STILL waiting for an Airedale to make it to the finals….Oh, dare to dream….
My AKC name is Princess Ruby of Acapulco…don’t ask….
Kisses,
Ruby
OMG, A OES named Panda, can there be anything literally cuter then that, I highly doubt it. Your making me want one so bad now because it is true they are kind of like little pandas! Ruby I saw a Airdale in the running and it immediately made me think of you, maybe next year! And Ruby your names sounds like a princess from a far away land, very mystical! lol
They’re some awesome names!! 🙂 My posh name is “Joe Cool” and I love it! Tee Hee
Big wags,
Your pal Snoopy 🙂
Is that really your name! Thats soo awesome, your way to cool to be over on my blog with a name like that! XD
Hiya Kirbster (still my very favorite name for you pal)…Love your “posh name” Momz sez I’m just too darn scruffy fur a “posh name” but I think I’d like something like”Scruffy’s Favorite Widget” and then my house name could still be Gizmo
Show dogs and breeding dogs have such crazy names. My parents names were, mum- Justin’s Angel and dad’s was Happy Hollow Traveln’ Trooper and when I was registered they were upset that my name was just one name…Maggie
I don’t show or breed, but I have some friends who do. I wish all show folks would love their dogs like family members. Some seem to only like them because of their looks and use them as a trophy… when they are too old or get sick, they throw them out. 😦
Very true, I wouldn’t doubt there are people like that, with these type of things there always seems to be a dark side. Lets just hope these “bad” owners get weeded out more over time with the growth in welfare of animals in all countries 🙂