HANDSOME HOUNDS ABOUND AT KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW.Byline: Terri Hardy Daily News Staff Writer With a brisk tug of the leash and an encouraging cluck from his handler, Dart the beagle beagle, breed of dog beagle, breed of small, compact hound developed over centuries in England and introduced into the United States in the 1870s. It stands between 10 and 15 in. (25.4–38.1 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs between 20 and 40 lb (9. began a smart trot around the ring at Burbank Kennel Club's All-Breed Dog Show on Saturday. Before the judge's watchful eye, the short-legged canine stood with head forward and tail erect - then in a too-excited moment sat on the ground. His chances were dashed. A rather snooty Afghan took the blue ribbon in the hound category. ``He sat when he shouldn't have - it's a baby thing,'' said resigned owner Julie Wright of her 18-month-old dog. ``If he has a good time and semi-behaves himself, that's all I care about right now.'' Poufed, fluffed and trimmed, more than 2,500 dogs are competing in the two-day event, which ends today, said Marilyn Mayfield, president of the Burbank Kennel Club Kennel Club the principal body for maintaining stud books and registering purebred dogs in Great Britain. . ``People come from all over the country to this event. It's very competitive,'' Mayfield said. The show runs between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at Valley College, 5800 Fulton Ave. More than 130 breeds are represented. They range from the familiar standard poodles to the Chinese crested Chinese crested a very small (6 to 12 lb), fine-boned dog with a hairless body. Small numbers of long hairs are present on the lower legs, tail and the head where they are called the 'crest'. breed, which has a hairless body and plumelike hair coming from its head and tail. ``Some of these dogs I can't believe,'' said Jaime Gonzalez of Reseda. ``I was looking at them and thinking, what is that?'' His 4-year-old son Alex was more partial to the better-known breeds. ``I like the ones that are the same as my dog,'' said Alex, the proud owner of a German shepherd. While Gonzalez and his son came just to enjoy the day, other families came to investigate what kinds of breeds would be best with their children. As three little girls kissed and hugged a Great Pyrenees Great Pyrenees, breed of large working dog whose fossil remains date its existence in Europe from the Bronze Age (1800–1000 B.C.). It stands from 25 to 32 in. (63.5–81.3 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 90 to 125 lb (40.8–56.7 kg). , a huge, fluffy bearlike pooch, one anxious mother asked, ``does he drool?'' The dogs compete within their own breeds. Winners, like Dart, go on to compete within larger categories. Victors from those events vie for best of show. Dogs are judged on their conformation con·for·ma·tion n. One of the spatial arrangements of atoms in a molecule that can come about through free rotation of the atoms about a single chemical bond. , and handlers - many of them professional - do their best to show off their charge. Their job was made tougher in the unrelenting heat, aspooches panted and dozed. Handlers misted them with water and dipped their paws in pails. Little Dart was strapped into a sporty green terry cloth wrap to beat the heat. After his event he got a squirt of water and then chewed contentedly on a toy. ``He's a sweetie, he gets real excited by the applause,'' Wright said stroking his droopy droop v. drooped, droop·ing, droops v.intr. 1. To bend or hang downward: "His mouth drooped sadly, pulled down, no doubt, by the plump weight of his jowls" ears. ``He did real well.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) Dee Wildenstein grooms Speedy, a keeshond Keeshond (kās`hŏnd) (pl. Keeshonden), breed of medium-sized nonsporting dog raised in Holland for several hundred years and introduced into England in the year 1900. It stands about 18 in. bre ed, at the canine competition being held this weekend at Valley College. (2) John P. Wade judges a basenji basenji (bəsĕn`jē), breed of medium-sized hound whose origins can be traced back several thousand years to Africa and the courts of the Egyptian pharaohs. It stands about 17 in. (43.2 cm) high at the shoulders and weighs about 23 lb (10. during the Burbank Kennel Club event. (3) Jeanne Lorang puts a silky terrier through its paces. Gus Ruelas/Daily News |
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