US EditionThe Westminster Dog Show Is Turning 150. Here's What Has - and Hasn't - Changed over Time
The 150th Westminster Kennel Club show features 2,500 dogs across 212 breeds and highlights ongoing debates over breeding practices and dog welfare, organizers say.
- With the 150th annual show set to start Saturday, the Westminster Kennel Club begins in New York City, featuring 2,500 dogs from 212 breeds, with semifinals and finals late Tuesday at Madison Square Garden.
- Over time, the event began as the 'First Annual New York Bench Show of Dogs' in 1877, organized by Gilded Age hunters who met at the Westminster Hotel, and added a Best in Show trophy in 1907.
- Television and streaming broadcasts have expanded Westminster's reach, with Christopher Guest researching the show for his film, 'Best in Show,' which helped broaden its audience.
- In recent years animal welfare activists have demonstrated and PETA has organized oxygen-tank protests for flat-faced breeds, while club President Donald Sturz highlights donations to veterinary scholarships and shelters.
- Club leaders say they aim to balance tradition with broader access while keeping the focus on love of dogs, despite evolving breed standards and physical traits influenced by better canine nutrition.
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The Westminster dog show is turning 150. Here's what has -- and hasn't -- changed over time
When some Gilded Age gentleman hunters organized a New York event to compare their dogs, could they have imagined that people would someday call it the World Series of dogdom or the Super Bowl of dog shows? Of course they couldn’t. The World Series and the Super Bowl didn’t exist. Nor, for that matter, did the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty. But the Westminster Kennel Club’s dog show did, and still does. With the 150th annual show set …
The Westminster dog show is turning 150. Here's what has
NEW YORK (AP) — When some Gilded Age gentleman hunters organized a New York event to compare their dogs, could they have imagined that people would someday call it the World Series of dogdom or the Super Bowl of dog shows ? Of course they couldn’t. The World Series and the Super Bowl didn’t exist. Nor, for that matter, did the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty. But the Westminster Kennel Club’s dog show did, and still does. With the 150th…
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The Westminster dog show is turning 150. Here's what has - and hasn't - changed over time
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