The competition was ruff, but Malachy put his best paw forward and totally dogged his enemies.
The annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is one of the fiercest, furriest competitions around — and it just got a new champion. A four-year-old Pekingnese named Malachy was named top dog Feb. 14 in New York, making him the first of his breed to win the competition since 1990.
So what was the key to Malachy’s success? Dignity, apparently.
“He doesn’t run,” his handler David Fitzpatrick tells the Associated Press. “He has a dignified Pekingese gait.”
Seriously, why can’t the Olympics be this adorable? I’d watch.
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Margaret Wild
Posted at 9:39 PM on February 22, 2012
Congratulations to dear little Malachy and his devoted handler David Fitzpatrick, you two make a great team!
Maria Frisby (Ms. Pennsylvania 2004)
Posted at 9:56 AM on February 15, 2012
Congrats Malachy! Malachy is so precious! He looks like a winner. He reminds me of my shih tzu Booker.
Maria Frisby- Ms. Pennsylvania 2004
(U.S. Beauties)