Winning Beauty Tips From the Dogs of the Westminster Kennel Club
Fur on fleek.
Was it New York Fashion Week this week? These beauties didn't notice. They were too busy strutting their stuff at the 140th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. We sent photographer Alan Winslow to capture the fluffy fashions and beauty routines of these perfect pups.
Hudson
Hudson is an Irish Setter from Nashville, Tennessee. He gets a bath, a towel, a brush and blow dry to get ready for the show. Every once in a while, he gets sprayed down with a mixture of conditioner and water to reduce his static hair.
Avexu Mondavi
Avexu Mondavi is a Spinone Italiano from the Finger Lakes. She gets a bath a couple of days before the show but then is allowed to play and get a little dirty in order to bring out the features and texture of her course coat.
Karnovanda Steven Cold Bear
Karnovanda Steven Cold Bear is a Siberian Husky from Wisconsin. For exercise, he loves to play in the yard with three other dogs and a flock of sheep, but he has worked hard to minimize the stains on his coat.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is a Glen of Imaal Terrier who doesn't like to eat before he goes in the ring. Grooming starts early for Cormac whose hair gets stripped twice a year. The new hair grows in more course and dark. His special treat after a hard days work is homemade fresh chicken jerky.
Flash
Flash is an American Staffordshire Terrier who was snapped just before he stepped into the ring. He has no secrets (that he wanted to reveal) to get ready for the show—just a balanced diet.
Barnaby
Barnaby is from Toronto and was one of the top English Pointers in Canada last year. In his spare time, he works as a therapy dog. He needs a lot of exercise and three meals a day in order to maintain his tidy figure. To get ready for the show he takes a bath with a special shampoo for sensitive skin, his nails get dremeled, his whiskers and hair trimmed and he gets a powder of corn starch on his coat.
Minka
Minka is a Bedlington Terrier from Morristown, New Jersey. She naturally has a fantastic coat so she just focuses on good healthy living with lots of tug of war with other dogs. Minka eats the same meals as her owners—there's nothing she doesn't like the taste of.
Pandy
Pandy, a Kuvaz from California, uses mousse in his hair to give it volume. To stay in shape, he runs next to a bike for three miles a day but he also loves to eat steak and watch TV.
Trey
Trey is a St. Bernard and a gentle giant from Connecticut. His grooming secret is a bath that takes roughly five and a half hours. Why? Because it's important to get him completely wet to the skin and completely dry and when you're as big as him it takes a while. If he wasn't working, he would be laying in snow or taking a nap.
Knightley
Knightley from New Jersey is a Mastiff that is so low maintenance that all he needs is his chicken chew toy and a little shine spray the day of the show. To keep his 200-pound figure, he gets very little table food but loves chicken and liver as a treat when he leaves the ring.
Laika
Laika is a Samoyed and a Brooklynite who loves string cheese, carrots, and cucumbers after a hard days work. She's a social butterfly who enjoy visiting friends, running around and sledding.
Trouble
Trouble (who is never any trouble) is a West Highland White Terrier from Baltimore. To get ready for the show he's completely hand groomed—no hair is cut with scissors, it's gently pulled by hand to form its layers. He uses a whitening shampoo in order to keep his bright coloring.
Ethel
Ethel is an Australian Terrier who loves chasing critters in her backyard to stay in shape.
Tiger
Tiger is a 10.5 year old Brittany who spends 30 minutes daily on the treadmill and gets a message every other week to stay looking young.
Bookie
Bookie is a Great Dane who exercises with a group of seven other dogs. After working out, he loves to veg out on the couch and get his belly rubbed. To keep his lean 170-pound figure, he eats eight cups of food a day.
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