Off the I-15

THIS JUST IN … UNO WON!

A beagle has won the Westminster Kennel club show for the first time in the dog show’s history. Uno, a three-year-old beagle, was named Best in Show Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, according to the Associated Press. 

So a beagle made history. Well, mine just makes a mess.  

Uno, a beagle, won the hound category at the Westminster Kennel Club Show last night and could win Best in Show later tonight (actually, in about 24 minutes. If I’m still writing then, I’ll update you). It’s the first time that a beagle has won its breed competition and the first time since 1939 that a Beagle has even advanced to the final seven.     

So why has one of the country’s most popular dogs, according to the Associated Press, never taken home the bacon (Best in Show)? Well, I believe I can shed a little light on this one.     

Don’t get me wrong here, I love my roommate’s beagle, Bailee, but she is a terror. Bailee prefers toilet paper, couch cushions, shoes and chairs to the toys she leaves around the house. She is always wound up (I credit that to sleeping all day while the house is empty) and just decided a month or so ago to bark at everyone who comes through the door.    

She’s the cutest thing in the world, and certainly at my house, when she’s watching TV with you, sleeping curled up between your legs or chasing after a ball in the backyard, but when she’s nipping at your fork as you try to eat dinner or standing on the table when you come home lapping up a beer she just knocked over, you can understand why the beagle has not faired well at the most prestigious dog show.     

With that said, Bailee is young, and I hope she grows out of it to be just like Uno.
   
Isn’t she cute?    

The Best in Show competition will also bit editor against editor at the Desert Dispatch. Uno of course represents Bailee, my dog, and an Australian shepherd who won the herding category represents Scott Shackford’s dog Zander. Though Zander is only part Aussie.     

Aaron Aupperlee | city editor 

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