Ya’ll remember Trapezoid Head right!? Well he’s BACK to congratulate the Best in Show pup winner: a five-year-old Scottish Deerhound named Hickory. Check out all the contestants here, and our FAVORITE HERE OMG.
Thanks to original sender-inner Kerry L. and the Chicago Tribune photographer Kuni Takahashi.
I LOVE BICHONS.
Haaa, they look like toys!
Everytime I see dogs with this kind of hairstyle, I just want to eat them.
Pup looks a little…..perturbed. Maybe doesn’t like the current style?
His haircut makes me think of a certain Mel Brooks movie…
I agree he looks perturbed, perhaps a little annoyed. Fuzzy = cute, though!
He reminds me of this guy:
i am obsessed with gary and his spongehead! i can never convince anyone to go see him when he has shows at the casino.
Me too!
Ape Man 1: Dear me. What are those things coming out of her nose?
Dark Helmet: Hey, hey, watch my helmet.
Ape Man 2: Spaceballs?
Ape Man 1: Oh, sh@t. There goes the planet.
Hickory looks like a real dog, not an etiolated floofball.
Okay, I tried to post a link to a picture but I couldn’t.
DOG LOOKS LIKE GARY SPIVEY.
Sorry for the multiple postings! Instead of consent, I took silence to mean Disapproval (hmph).
Ok, the Bich-yawn Frizzy thing is cute. But the Scottish Deerhoud has kilt me.
260Oakley – The blurb says he likes to chase wild animals, so he might get up your kilt, if your not careful
Well, she ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog after all
(Hickory is a not-so-wee lassie)
After her grand tour, Ol’ Hick is going to retire and make babies!
*wanders off to find pics of Deerhound pups…*
260Oakley – Lassie eh, don’t tell me Timmy has fallen down the well again.
A very close friend and I have this whole theory where Lassie lives at an Old Actors’ Home and Lassie sits, chain-smoking, at a ratty, old dinette set in the kitchen….
“JEEZ if Timmy doesn’t friggin’ learn to
STAY AWAY from that stupid well, I’m gonna go ballistic, one of these days ….”
I had the honor of knowing a Scottish Deerhound a few years ago. He was an amazing dog– he was enormous with those wild eyebrows, and he was so quiet, sweet and gentle, he was almost angelic. He was one of the sweetest creatures I;ve ever known.
O/NO – You brought tears to my eyes, I can just picture a superannuated Lassie,
probably with Rintintin and Champion the wonder horse.
These show dogs seem composed, but what would happened if a squirrel got loose in the ring?
They are dogs.
it’s so fluffy I could DIE!
Let’s let a squirrel loose at Westminister and see what happens…
“SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!” “SQUIRREL!”
And so on.
Once they mentioned that back in the day, (before the present management) a rat dropped out of the rafters during a terrier judging. It got ugly very quickly.
If it’s the same incident the late Roger Caras wrote about in one of his books, it was a mouse, and it ran beneath the stands next to a group of Lakeland Terriers. It did not get that ugly- but only because all the dogs were on lead. If they hadn’t been, Mr. Caras wrote, “what a pile of very expensive fur that would been !”
As things were, Mr. Caras continued, “I’ve never seen a group of dogs in the ring that was as ‘on’ as those Lakelands !”
The hunter dogs would have a Field Day!!1
Oh my
Bichons rule! Deerhounds drool!
(keedink)
I would name my bichon “Mr. Sta-Puff.”
[channeling Dan Akroyd]
“…I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something that could never, ever hurt us. Mr. Sta-Puf.”
aw, it’s not his fault he has a sno-cone for a head.
(but I do lurves me some deerhound… big doggehs are where it’s at, folks, no doubt)
*snerk* “sno-cone for a head”
That has me visualizing adding some sour green apple Kool-Aid into this puppeh’s coiffure ….
*giggle* Pup’s ‘do is itching for some syrup, no?
Please raise your hand if you are the one who calls them “Bitchin’ Frisbees”. I remember that comment from another Bichon post here, and I absolutely crack up everytime I see one now and think about it.
baahh hahahah there’s one across the street from me – THIS IS HIS NEW NAME
: D
One of the fake band names my pals and I came up with in the 80s was “Bitchin’ Freeze”.
That front one looks like Bob Ross reincarnated as a puppy… and he’s NOT pleased.
“How the heck do you expect me to paint Happy Little Trees in this getup?!?”
Gawd I miss that show.
(giggle) Bob Ross.
His painting was wonderful; and that sure was some ‘do, wasn’t it?????
Hickory is from Warrenton, VA. I have friends who live there. Beautiful, beautiful country!
Scottish Deerhound takes “The Best in Show” title at the West Minster dog Show A bigger upset than Appallation State beating Michigan.
Appalachian is my old school!
it was a lovely day when we beat ‘em!
rather than an ‘upset’ for the BiS title, shouldn’t we be happy that it, too, went to the underdog?
I’ve been a fan for years but they’ve rarely even made it to the finals. I was practically screaming at the end.
Plus, it’s always a bonus when a breed that’s never won wins. Plus, it’s always a plus when it’s not a terrier. Enough with the terriers already!
Maybe off topic, but since it’s the contraction of “you all,” the word is “y’all.”
Nice dogs, btw.
Hey, I’m glad I’ve finally stopped using youse. I’m now trying to stop y’all so if I use you all as a transition, I’m happy.
He looks so angry. He does not like his little hair cut.
Here’s video of the beautiful Miss Hickory!
She was on the Early Show this AM, and acted very much like the deerhound I knew– very sweet and quiet and bashful:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/scottish-deerhound-wins-westminster/9742-1_53-50100367.html
Thanks for the vid clip! What a lovely dog. And soooo big! In this setting, you can see she’s as big as a pony! Well, one of those little ponies, anyway. I realized she was big when anyone stood next to her, but in the show ring she somehow seemed… less rideable
.
She’ll be a wonderful mom.
There was a deerhound, a Scottish deerhound
Who wandered far away and showed off far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulder
He’s showed in many a place, and showed and won.
He’d seen the glory and told the story
Of doggies glorious and wins victorious
But his owner’s singing, his tail is wagging
Cause he showed at Westminster
And there he won!
It was this doggie, this Scottish doggie
Who won Best in Show The first deerhound’s best in show
The judge loved him; his owner hugged him
And he got treats and cups to take back home!
Ooops….Hickory is a girl! Please change lyrics to reflect if you feel like singing.
Janet – I have the misfortune to remember Andy Stewart singing the original song
If you want to refresh your memories, it’s on YouTube.
Insert as chorus:
Because these dogs are not highland dogs
They’re not island dogs, they’re no my land’s dogs
THough these dogs awfully cute may be
They didn’t win the SHOW!
Oh, I also remember the original Scottish Soldier song. I was a teenager then, and it played on the radio. Rather a shock when, years later, I’m listening to the entire opera of William Tell by Rossini – and up pops The Scottish Solider, played up tempo!
I’m not sure about y’all, but my jaw dropped when I clicked on the Kuni Takahashi link and found my screen covered with hardcore war and conflict-zone photos. Thursday, unrest in Afghanistan *click*, Saturday, some fluffy thing at a dog show *zoom, click*. The unpredictable life of a photographer.
this dog looks like Will Ferrell.
My Bichons have never looked like that. Not sure if I should be disappointed or relieved.
Relieved, trust me.
When I first had Bichons I’d take them to a groomer who knew the “show cut”. He’d fluff them up to within an inch of their lives. Do you know how long that fluff lasts? One trip to the water dish and half the face goes, one trip outside and the coat is smeared with dirt and full of prickly things. It’s a bonus when something dead is found and rolled in. Then the whole ‘do goes down the drain because you have to bathe them.
Redo of Chorus (I should think this out first, I know – but then no one would see it because the would be long since onto something else)
But these dogs are not first-place dogs
They’re not Worst-Place Dogs
But they’re not First Place Dogs
THough these dogs awfully cute may be
They didn’t win the SHOW!
One word — floof