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Obviously, the entire dog show industry is insane. We all saw that documentary. But it’s not insane because of how these lovable companions are put through the types of rigors and vicarious dream displacement that should be reserved for pageant children. It’s not insane because of how the time and care that owners often put into getting their dogs show-ready far outweighs the time and care they put into most other aspects of their lives and it shows. It’s not insane because of how the strict judging standards and the formal seriousness of the competition completely overwhelms the spontaneity and animal nature of what being a dog actually means.
It’s insane because how can you just pick one?!!! Look at these wonderful guys!
AWWWWWWWW. You look good, girls! It’s like the Puppy Bowl all over again. You put Schroeder in there and watch him nap up all the awards. Literally. By napping.
Of course, Videogum loves a winner. We’re as much about the overdog as we are about the under. So we have to give the champ his due. From the New York Times:
At 10 years old, Stump the Sussex spaniel should be well into his dotage. Instead, the dog who technically retired four years ago took home Best in Show on Tuesday at the 133rd Annual Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden, becoming the oldest to win the award.
Stump, officially named Ch. Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee, might have surprised aficionados, who had their eye on a giant schnauzer, but the crowd clearly preferred the jaunty spaniel. Stump was greeted with deafening applause each time he plodded around the ring.
Congratulations, Ch. Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee. Congratulations, EVERYONE!
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Makes Little Debbie look like a pile of puke.
Really, Gabe? You – who seems to have such a finely tuned bullshit detector and are cynical towards nearly everything – you think the Westminster dog show is just cute, and that’s that?
I was really hoping for some kind of rant on what a strange and fucked up display of eugenics and human ridiculousness the strict and at-times-cruel over-breeding of pure-bred dogs is. They inbred those little beasts until they’re blind and deformed, and then they keep going. And then they sell them for 5 grand, while 50,000 unwanted dogs get the gas chamber each year.
But, yeah, I guess some of those big furry ones are cute, too.
Sarah Mclachlan? Is that you?
dude, it IS cute… in a Gattaca-for-dogs kind of way.
That’s just a rip-off of Logan’s-Run-for-dogs.
he totally did make reference to how weird it was.
did you read the post?
also, just to be clear, the people who breed deformed dogs aren’t representative of all breeders, any more than the child molesting priests are representative of all priests.
there are some pieces of shit in every jar of nuts. (ew.)
most breeders really, really care about their breed, to the point of being militants, and carefully screen their litters for defects. they do everything in their power to make sure all non-show dogs go to stable, good homes. the ones who don’t are gross monsters, mos def, but it’s a little much to generalize the entire dog breeding/showing world as monstrous.
also did you see the shiba? so cute.
ahahha Woofy Goldberg at 0:25
How do they get Stump from Ch. Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee?