Scenes from the Dog Show

If you watch something other than football on Thursday, you might be tuning in to the National Dog Show which actually took place in Philadelphia over the past weekend. I made a short visit to see whether it might be a good venue to sell our book next year (jury is out on that) and wandered the benched area, which is always fun. These are some competitors.

The first is a golden, same color as Phoebe but you can see that the breed standard seems to be much smaller than my goldens--short legs and big heads seem to be the desired traits.
These bichons made quite a photo. They were posed on three separate grooming tables, one next to the other and at one point they were all looking my way. Didn't quite capture all three but these two are pretty cute.

This Old English sheepdog did not make it to the best of breed for the Herding class in the national Show but was still pretty cute!