More than a 150 canines participated in the Lady Slipper Kennel Club’s weekend dog show (July 22-23) at the Kensington Community Gardens arena. There were large breeds and small breeds, hairy breeds and hairless ones – dogs of all shapes, colors and sizes. And they were all competing for brightly colored ribbons and bragging rights in their groups. Among the many breeds represented at the show were whippets, basset hounds, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Great Danes, Samoyeds, Schnauzers, beagles, Finnish Spitz’s, Great Pyrenees, Irish wolfhounds, rottweillers, Alaskan Malamutes, Skye Terriers, Cairn Terriers, Pekingeses, Italian Greyhounds, Pugs, Toy Fox terriers, Papillons, Chinese Crested, Welsh terriers and Tibetan spaniels

Story and photos by Jim Brown.
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