Will this be Winston the French bulldog’s year at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show? Or will it be another surprise champion like last year when Trumpet, a glorious bloodhound, beat out Striker the Samoyed and others for best in show? We are following along all night with the action from the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens.
The nice man who taught the puppy class that Charlie the Border Terrier went to said he once saw a documentary about terriers that involved a man bustling dozens of terriers into some sort of van or truck and then taking them to a farm infested with rats, whereupon the terriers turned into bloodthirsty mammalian piranhas, launching themselves down the rat holes and emerging covered in blood with half-eaten rats hanging from their mouths.