Dogs at the event may have elaborate hair-care routines and appearances that resemble sculptures or Victorian-era paintings.
Various dog breeds, including Airedale, Silky Terrier, Wire-haired Pointer, Xoloitzcuintli and Komondor can be petted at the event.
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is both a competition and a petting zoo.
FLUSHING, N.Y. — If you play it right, the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is not just a competition for the finest-bred dog. It is also a fancy petting zoo.
You can pet them all — from Airedale to Yorkie, silky terrier to wire-haired pointer, hairless Xoloitzcuintli to moppish Komondor. You can pet them even when their hair-care routine is an elaborate, six-hour process with mousses and gels more exquisite than most humans use on themselves. You can pet them even when they look like a sculpture, or a Victorian-era painting of royal dogs on a hunt. You just have to ask nicely.
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is not just a competition for the finest-bred dog, but also a petting zoo. Visitors can pet various breeds of dogs at the show including Airedale, Silky Terrier, Wire-haired Pointer, Xoloitzcuintli and Komondor. You can pet them even when their hair-care routine is an elaborate, six-hour process with mousses and gels more exquisite than most humans use on themselves. You can pet them even when they look like a sculpture, or a Victorian-era painting of royal dogs on a hunt. You just have to ask nicely.
Kaz Hosaka, veteran handler, won for the second time with Sage
Sage is the 11th triumph for poodles at Westminster
Monty finished second in the competition and is a solid, powerful and spirited dog handled by Katie Bernardin during pregnancy due to his need for stimulation
Sage is the first female Best in Show winner since 2020.
Sage is a dog from Houston, Texas. Her breeder and handler Kaz Hosaka competed in his last Westminster show after 45 competitions.
Sage is the fourth Miniature Poodle to win Best in Show.
Poodles have won Westminster’s Top Prize twelve times, and were one of the most represented breeds this year with 43 entrants.
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The article contains some inflammatory rhetoric when it refers to Sage as a 'new feminist hero' for being the first female Best in Show winner since 2020. This is an appeal to emotion and a false dichotomy, implying that only females can be feminist heroes and that this achievement is significant only because of her gender.
Sage the Miniature Poodle has won best in show at the 2024 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. She's a new feminist hero by being the first female Best in Show winner since 2020.
