In a half hour, Oscar will be walking to MSG for the Westminster Kennel Club. Tagging along will be the Wall Street Journal to add a second part to yesterday’s Front Page Story. Remember if you go, to cheer for Greater Swiss Mountain Dog #18, Ring 3, at about 10am!
Oscar The Grouch (Swissy #18) and his owner David, thankful of being able to show at Westminster Kennel Club, will be donating $500 later today to Angel On A Leash a charity chaired by David Frei, which has one of the best therapy dog programs out there. Oscar encourages other Westminster competitors and Greater Swiss Mountain Dog owners/breeders to donate what they can, to help this worthy charity.
Short clip of Oscar, Ashley, and the Westminster Dogs of NYC on the NY Daily News’s website. Oscar’s cousin the entlebucher has a cameo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLebN76tpmw
Recently Oscar received his first piece of hate-mail. You know you hit it big when that happens.
“Wider Audience, really, noone has a website for their ‘pet’ dog, dog websites are for show, breeding or performance brags/info.
And you wouldn’t like what people are saying because of that, let’s just say not positive”
“You many not like it, but I was actually trying to help you. Though I think at this point you may have succeeded in alienating the entire swiss community, so I don’t really see the point anymore.”
Thank you to the Times-Picayune for suggesting to read up about Oscar to learn about Westminster. Oscar’s owner David was offered a job near New Orleans a few years back. It’s possible Oscar might of ended up as the dog from New Orleans instead of NYC if David had taken that job.
http://www.nola.com/tv/index.ssf/2012/02/tv_linkzilla_daily_westminster.html
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Johnny Avello, the director of the Wynn Las Vegas casino’s sports book handicaps Oscar The Grouch’s chance of winning Best In Show at Westminster Kennel Club at 600 to 1. The bookies always are right, after all the NY Giants were 100 to 1 to win the Super Bowl and the St Louis Cardinals were 250 to 1.
Bloomberg owned by NYC Mayor Bloomberg, spans a tv channel, radio station, financial terminal, and website which reaches millions of viewers. They just covered Oscar as a top-ranked Greater Swiss Mountain Dog who will be walking to Madison Square Garden.
Oscar’s is wearing his red swiss collar which was purchased at Alpenschatz. They have a temporary store in the basement of Hotel Pennsylvania for the Westminster Kennel Club shows. Otherwise their website is linked below.
Oscar The Grouch was just in the opening promo for the Westminster Kennel Club on USA!
A Youtube Video Cites Oscar the Grouch as being in the “Canine 1%”. Will the other 99% protest Oscar on his walk to Westminster Kennel Club tomorrow morning?
MarketWatch.com, a website of 4.5 million viewers, talks about Oscar The Grouch (Swissy #18) and how sleeping at his own home and walking to the show could give him an advantage at Westminster Kennel Club. They refer to Oscar as NY’s hometown hero.
Looking at the breed entries posted online, Oscar The Grouch’s competitors are on average 3.2 yrs old, 1.3 years older than Oscar. However Oscar has been selected over his competitors in the ring before including his own father back when he was first starting his show career.
There will be MAJOR Grouch Alerts coming soon, we’ll break the news on Facebook. Stayed tuned….
The Wall Street Journal, the largest daily newspaper with a circulation of 3.5 million readers, names Oscar The Grouch (Swissy #18) as the dog to root for at Westminster Kennel Club.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204795304577219643566702620.html
This afternoon Oscar walked by Hotel Pennsylvania posing for pictures with the editor of Dog Fancy Magazine and assorted tourists as best he could. After all, Oscar had his eye on a berner passing by. Each tourist would ask if Oscar was a shaved bernese mountain dog or a large version of that new breed (entlebucher). They were each explained Oscar The Grouch is a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog.
Exclusive pictures of NBC shooting Oscar and David for their opening promo to the Westminster show.
Oscar The Grouch met 2011 Westminster champion Hickory today. Hickory is a beautiful Scottish Deerhound. After exchanging pleasantries, Hickory wished Oscar (Swissy #18) good luck at ring 3 this Tuesday, 10am at the Westminster kennel club show at Madison Square Garden.
