3,200 dogs set to strut at Westminster show next month
NEW YORK — In the Year of the Dog, which one will have its day at the Westminster Kennel Club show?
About 3,200 dogs are getting ready for America’s most prominent canine competition, set for Feb. 10, 12 and 13. As it happens, this year’s Best in Show winner will hold the title during the Chinese zodiac’s Year of the Dog, which begins a few days later.
“Of course, every year is the year of the dog at Westminster,” show spokeswoman Gail Miller Bisher said at a news conference Wednesday.
The televised show centres on picking the top purebred dog from as many as 202 breeds and varieties at New York’s Madison Square Garden.