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Simon Garfield is a popularising writer with a light touch and a wide range of interests. His big hit was a charming and erudite book about fonts called
Just My Type, but he has also written book-length studies of, among many other things, the Mini, stamp-collecting, wartime diaries, competitive wrestling, tiny things and the colour mauve.
Now it is the turn of dogs. This book is just as amiable as youâd expect from Garfield, but itâs also a bit too whimsical and wearyingly disorganised. You could write it off as a rush job done as a publishing proposition â dogs sell â except itâs odder and less cynical than that. Garfield clearly really does love dogs. Here, he writes like one. He woofs and bounds around the subject and frequently vanishes into the undergrowth in pursuit of phantom rabbits. You find yourself wishing he wore one of those collars, probably illegal, designed to concentrate the attention by deliver
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Whippet Bourbon Wins Best in Show at 20th AKC National Championship Presented by Royal Canin
National Champion Beats Out More Than 4,000 Dogs
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ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ GCHP CH Pinnacle Kentucky Bourbon, a Whippet known as Bourbon triumphed over more than 4,000 competitors to earn a $50,000 cash prize and the title of Best in Show at the AKC National Championship Presented by Royal Canin, held December 12-13, 2020 in Orlando, FL. Bourbon, owned by Justin and Cheslie Smithey, K. Latimer, J. Descutner, and N. Shaw of Sugar Valley, GA and bred by Justin Smithey and Yvonne Sovereign, was crowned America s National Champion by Best in Show judge Mr. James A. Moses after a weekend of intense canine competition.