Best of Breed?

Time for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog show to come on again...yawn.  Hours and hours of dogs running counter clockwise once...then dumping up on the examining table to be probed....then run clockwise once more.

The one on the left?  Feed him coal and he will shite diamonds.  The one on the right?  We need to party!

This is how we pick the "Best of Breed" of each dog? Because the only requirements seem to be maintaining your posture and dignity as some strange human picks at your parts. I'm actually surprised that they don't make the dogs prance around with books balanced on their heads finishing school style!

Does your dog have a talent?....judges don't care. Are you a retriever breed that could care less about actually retrieving?...no?...are your haunches tight?...good enough.  They had a dog actually relieve itself in the judging area a few years ago...that's right, it wasn't even housebroken. 

If dog show judges got a hold of the Ms. USA pageant, they would dispense with all the talent and questioning. Just divide up all the contestants into groups they could judge(eastern, Midwest, southern, ethnic, and valley girl) and then have them stand mute as they measured them with calipers!

It's time to have an insurgent style dog show. I want a talent show, have the organizers seen "stupid pet tricks" all these years? Have a costume review so the dogs can sparkle a bit. Finally I want to see the dogs do what the announcers at the Westminster say their breed is bred to do. Your a rat dog...catch a rodent...Herder...do it...working breed...pull a sled. How can you be a "Best of Breed" if you can't actually do what you were bred to do?

I know this probably sounds nit picky...but the reason people love dogs is that they have personalty...quirks. I don't see any of that in this stale dog show.