December 7, 2010
FACES OF DOGS 2 This past Saturday and Sunday I had a glorious time at the Eukanuba/ AKC National Show Dog Championship, the second largest dog show in America, after Westminister. Dog galore: two hundred and two breeds! I spent most of my time prowling the grooming and prep areas where up-close-and-personal is possible — including patting. I did watch some of my favorite breeds in the ring: Basset Hounds, Bull Terriers, Newfoundlands, Border Collies, Australian Terriers, Great Pyrenees; as well as some of the newer, exotic (to us) breeds: the Dogue de Bordeaux ( giant reddish mastiff type), Treeing Walker Coonhounds, Norwegian Lundehunds (with double dew claws on all four feet to aid in cliff climbing to snare sea birds), Entlebucher Mountain Dogs, and the Xolotzcuintles (three sizes of Mexican Hairless dogs). I took hundreds of photographs, including continuing my Faces of Dogs project, and those are the images what I decided to put up on facesofdog.com. (Coming later: “Tails and Toes,” “Hair of the Dog.”) All except one dog in this gallery were actually competing.

FACES OF DOGS 2

This past Saturday and Sunday I had a glorious time at the Eukanuba/ AKC National Show Dog Championship, the second largest dog show in America, after Westminister. Dog galore: two hundred and two breeds! I spent most of my time prowling the grooming and prep areas where up-close-and-personal is possible — including patting. I did watch some of my favorite breeds in the ring: Basset Hounds, Bull Terriers, Newfoundlands, Border Collies, Australian Terriers, Great Pyrenees; as well as some of the newer, exotic (to us) breeds: the Dogue de Bordeaux ( giant reddish mastiff type), Treeing Walker Coonhounds, Norwegian Lundehunds (with double dew claws on all four feet to aid in cliff climbing to snare sea birds), Entlebucher Mountain Dogs, and the Xolotzcuintles (three sizes of Mexican Hairless dogs).

I took hundreds of photographs, including continuing my Faces of Dogs project, and those are the images what I decided to put up on facesofdog.com. (Coming later: “Tails and Toes,” “Hair of the Dog.”) All except one dog in this gallery were actually competing.

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