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French bulldog named "Dave's Line of Clean Pine Lake" meekly awaiting his command of the head of its representation at the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden.

"Many people at home," said David Frei, "probably thinking that dogs from Westminster to spend their time lounging on cushions and satin dog eats good fit."

But some 2,500 purebred dogs will compete in the 135th annual Westminster Kennel Square Garden Club show tomorrow and Tuesday at Madison harbor a secret, "said Frei.

They are not really very different than 10 or 20 dogs, the average New Yorker walks every day in the streets and in the neighborhood.

"The public sees this dog show so disciplined in the ring," said Frei, who for 22 years and NBC say the show on the USA. "What they do not see is that even the dog outside rolling in the mud or slime or excretion of black on your pants.

"This is the real point we're trying to do the show - that champion dogs, but they are still dogs, you have pets, they are family members .."

Okay, it is also true that the laboratory or the next door mixed blood is not on national television in the competition for the prestigious award from the World Dog Show - Best in Show at Westminster (8-9 clock States United tomorrow from 9 to 11.00 clock tomorrow on CNBC Tuesday and 8-11 Clock, USA).

All participants at Westminster have won the "Champion" designation to compete in other shows, and the 50 best show dogs in the country last year, 46 will compete here.

But the owner said, free is not only a great number of Bon Bon. "You can be a nuclear physicist at the show-ring and the man or woman next to a will, a professor at Columbia, or sometimes just really -. Epagneul Breton Who"

Dogs. The great equalizer.

"If you go just a game of basketball,] you never know and have a dunk contest with Kobe [Bryant said Frei." But if we Westminster clock, you can watch the dog sitting
next to you on the couch and say, "You know, if we just cut the biscuits for dogs, you get some exercise and have some sites that you might be there."

And then the dog may also be the reward for the television coverage of the attention of millions.

The Perk has reached a crescendo three years ago, when a beagle named Uno has swept the show like Sherman through Georgia.

"Uno was the most charismatic winner we've ever had," said Frei. "Probably in the history of the show. People have a dog. He was white to the Macy's parade, he went to the house, he threw the first place in the baseball games. It was the dog of America. "

Uno is as hard as an act to follow, however, the 2009 winner, Stump, he said.