DOG-EARED with Lisa Davis & the Health Power podcast.

SPECIAL DOG-EARED with Lisa Davis EP #21: Petrendologist Charlotte Reed Shares Insider Details about The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show This Weekend!

May 05, 2023
DOG-EARED with Lisa Davis & the Health Power podcast.
SPECIAL DOG-EARED with Lisa Davis EP #21: Petrendologist Charlotte Reed Shares Insider Details about The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show This Weekend!
Show Notes Transcript

Lisa is joined by Charlotte Reed who shares some great info about The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this weekend! Charlotte Reed is the leading pet trend and lifestyle expert. Millions have had the opportunity to watch her on Better TV, CNN, Comedy Central, Fox & Friends, Nate Berkus, The View, Steve Harvey, Today's Show, VH1 and The Willis Report as well as many other televisions and radio shows around the globe, discussing “The What’s New” for pets and their people. Reed is the Executive Producer and Host of “The Pet Buzz,” a syndicated pet talk radio show, airing throughout the United States. She is a Contributor to Dogster and Catster magazines and has worked as the Pet Solutions columnist for “First for Women” magazine, providing money saving tips to their readers. Charlotte has been a popular blogger for NBC’s Petside.com and Pet360.com. As the Happy & Healthy Pets blogger, Reed provided health and wellness pet care tips for Prevention.com readers. Charlotte is also the author of "The Miss Fido Manners Complete Book of Dog Etiquette" (Adams Media, 2007). Currently, she is writing her second book about pets and money. Additionally, she served on the New York State Veterinarian Board for nine years, helping to set veterinary policy and educational standards for the State of New York. Reed is a graduate of Lafayette College and Fordham University Law School.

The Westminster Kennel Club, established in 1877, is America's oldest non-profit organization dedicated to the sport of dogs. The Club hosts the iconic Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the second-longest, continuously held sporting event in the U.S., and since 1948, the longest nationally televised live dog show. This year the Westminster Kennel Club Dog show presented by Purina Pro Plan is held from May at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City from Saturday, May 6th to Tuesday May 9th.  Dog lovers can watch the coverage on Fox Sports.

Watch the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show & its other activities , May 6, 7, 8 & 9.  You can watch the Live Streaming of the breeds during the day at WestminsterKennelClub.org and the evening and other activities on Fox Sports. For specific information of breeds, time, Fox Sports Channels and other information, once again, visit the WestminsterKennelClub.org.

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dog , people , breed , westminster , churchill , wally , toy , years , french bulldog , great , hammy , love , day , akc , shown , pet , westminster kennel , westminster kennel club , turns , charlotte 

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Lisa 
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Does your dog do well today? Answering this question is a fantastic pet trend. ologists Charlotte Reed she's also here to talk about West minster Kennel Club now this little history was established in 1877. It's America's oldest nonprofit organization. Dedicated to the sport of dogs. The Club hosts the iconic Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show the second longest continuously held sporting event in the US and since 1948. The longest nationally televised live dog shows you're here to answer our questions about the judging about the new breed and the AKC this year how many dog breeds will be in the show and much more. Charlotte Reed is a leading pet trend and lifestyle experts millions have had the opportunity to watch her on Better TV, CNN Comedy Central Nate Berkus the view and many more. Charlotte is the executive producer and host of the pet Buzz is syndicated pet talk radio show airing throughout the United States. Charlotte is also the author of the Miss Fido manners, Complete Book of dog etiquette. Currently she is writing her second book about pets and money. All right, does your dog do

Charlotte 
2:09
my dog? Lot does. When I'm in the bathroom, throw himself against the door to come and watch me sit on the toilet. How's that? And the thing is, he won't jump on or that one, the one dog I'm thinking of Wally who's the smallest. Carl himself against the door. You know, when you're living alone in there, no kids, you don't always close the door. But most of the time I close the doors you want a little privacy. So while he will hurl himself against the door, and then he'll walk into the bathroom and then sit on the mat and then just fall asleep. Whereas if hammy comes in then Churchill comes in, he'll do the same thing. But if Hamby comes in, he wants to jump on you while you're sitting on the toilet. So that's what my dogs do. Well, three out of four of them enjoy being with me so much. They want me they want to see what's going on in the bathroom.

Lisa 
3:03
Now the first question that I ask every guest is when did your love of dogs begin? 

Charlotte 
3:08
Oh my dogs. My love of dogs began really soon after I was born, believe it or not. My brother, who is now deceased, decided that he wanted to give me a doggie present. So he brought home a dog a few days after I came home from the hospital. Oh, wow. So my mother wasn't thrilled because my mother had me when she was close to 50. She was I had two kids in college. And she had my brother and it was, you know, the 60s. And he was definitely a child of the 60s. And then she had also another 17 year old 17 and 19 year old at home. So there was a lot going on and to think about having a baby. And now a dog was just insane. But my parents always like dogs, so it wasn't really a problem. And actually, the first dog Fiskars was a border collie mix, and he probably passed away when I was about 12 years old. So he had a very long life. You probably don't if you had a long life, he probably died. He's probably about 12 and a half when he passed on. My first pooch.

Lisa 
4:11
Oh, do you have a dog currently?

Charlotte 
4:14
I do. I have four dogs. I have English toy spaniels. During COVID I lost a few dogs and my cat. You know most people think of me as a dog lover, but I also am a cat lover as well. So I lost my 15 year old Thames. I lost my golden retriever Hannah, who was probably about 13 years old. And then I lost my beloved Thai who was for many, many years, my TV dog, so I haven't. So I have Mauro and he is I actually, I had a friend who was who showed Pekinese is and she showed English toy Spaniels and Maura was about 15 Now he's blind so he has special needs. And I really every day his big engine Wayman is to go outside and go for a walk. So I tried to take him out two or three times a day. Because if not, he would just go from bed to bed to bed. And you know, this way he gets to see the sights and the sounds. And then I have Wally and Churchill, they're about nine months apart. I love my dog breeder and I try to visit her at least every year in Pittsburgh, and I want to go, she called me about six years ago, and she said, I finally have a read, you know, read English toy spaniel for you. Basically, you have an English toy Spaniels, you have broken colors, which is the Prince Charles, which is a tricolour dog and then you have the black and tan. And then you have the solid, I'm sorry, you have the What am I saying? You have the blend on, which is the broken colors. And then you have the tricolours. So then you have so which is nice. I have all four. So then I have Wally, like I said, so I want to go visit the breeder and pick up Wally. And as I was bathing him to put them in the Sherpur bag, you know, it's for them. We're gonna leave for the airport. She said, Oh, it's a two for one day, and I go, What are you talking about? And she goes, well go and pick one of those tricolour puppies. So I came home with two puppies, and then about a year and a half ago. Yeah, I got Churchill. So yeah, so Morrow is kind of the end. The oldest dog is kind of the end of this river series because I had a tie around at times, you know, so. So Mara was the last one and then all the dogs now are named after very famous English statesman. So while he's actually named after Cardinal Wally, Wallasey, Cardinal Wallasey was the chancellor for Henry the Eighth and he actually built Hampton Court he was beheaded because he could not get Henry the Eighth a divorce. Oh, wow. So what's interesting is, so Wally is read as I said, so his show name is backwards. That's the kennel name rise to prominence. And then we have hammy hammy Jones, we like to call him hammy is named after Francis Walsingham and Francis Walsingham is known as the father of spycraft. He was the right handed person for Queen Elizabeth. So he was, you know, a minister, he was, you know, in the church as a Protestant very early on. And during Bloody Mary's reign, the first daughter of Henry the Eighth, they tried to wipe out all of the Protestants so he fled to France, and he was brought back by Queen Elizabeth and he was her right hand until the day he died. So he was also responsible. And a lot of people don't know this he was responsible for the demise of Mary Louise and Mary to us was the mother of Mary Queen of Scots, she ran Scotland until Mary came and took over the throne and then we know about Mary Queen of Scots demise with her cousin Queen Elizabeth. So and then Churchill, we know who he's named after. So and Churchill lived at blood a manner and Churchill is a blood I'm which is a red and white document. Churchill. Come, come, come, come. Here's, let me see. Oh my gosh. So he's my Friskies little pooch. 

Lisa 
8:18
He looks like Charles one of those Cavalier King they

Charolotte 
8:22
actually come in the same four colors. Except they're smaller. And I know it might be difficult to see but he is a snub nose. So he's Brock, a facility dog. So yeah, so So people always if they're not familiar, because the breed really hasn't been popular. Since the war since the 1930s. And the war, World War One and World War Two. Obviously, in England, people were not really paying attention to breeding dogs because obviously the war and it was difficult to feed dogs when rations were, you know, limited. So so yeah. So that's it. Also, Churchill. Winston Churchill was born at blood a manner that's his family home. So and really, they started coming into this country because of the dollar brides. And if you remember Downton Abbey, yes. Love it. The Countess was an American, she was $1 bride. So we started seeing the dollar brides burning them back because they were a toy dog. They were sweet, you know, with the very popular peak. And a lot of people don't know this, but the Pekinese is the really the starting base for a lot of the smaller breed dogs, which a lot of people don't really know. That's why a lot of them have that snub nose like the sheet two and some of the other dogs and then there was I'll tell you my last history fact. There was a man I don't remember his name for the time being. It's not coming to me, but there's a man on the Titanic who survived to use to breed English toy Spaniels, as well as French Bulldogs. He was responsive Well for bringing the French Bulldog to this country. Now I don't there were nine dogs on the Titanic. I don't I'm sure he had dogs with him. I don't think any of the dogs survived. But he in fact did survive. He managed to get to one of the boats. And he was based in Riverdale, New York. What people like to say Riverdale, but it's the Bronx. So there's an area in the Bronx Riverdale, which is beautiful. And the Kennedys live there once.

Lisa 
10:25
Oh, my God, this is so fascinating.

Charlotte 
10:28
You know, it's interesting. A lot of people don't realize, and I'm going to say this because this is this weekend coming up. It's a historic weekend. The Kentucky Derby runs tomorrow. It's 149 years. The race because it's not a day. It's a race. The Kentucky Derby is a race at Churchill Downs. And the Westminster Kennel Club is also starting on Saturday. Let's jumpinto West minster Kennel Club Dog Show. How did the show get its name?


Charlotte 
10:58
Well, it's really funny. There's a group of fairly wealthy sporting gentlemen who lived in Long Island and around New York, who used to show their dogs and go out to Babylon Long Island and hunt a little bit and they would go back into New York City and they would go to the Westminster Hotel, which was on Irving place, and Gramercy Park and then sit around and brag. And at the time, they decided to get involved in the Philadelphia, The Kennel Club, dog club of the Philadelphia Kennel Club, excuse me, decided to do an exhibition in dog show in 1876. And these, these guys decided to go to Philadelphia to help out. And after they went and they saw all of the crowds of people. I mean, remember, there was not television, there was not social media. So these big sporting events like the Olympics, as we know, a lot of those events have kind of gone down in terms of viewership. But these events were so spectacular, people decided to come. And Westminster said, hey, well, we can do that in New York City. And then in 1877, they had their first show. And it incorporated so many, you know, over the years, so many celebrities and political figures, I'll give you an example. The Tsar of Russia submitted a dog. Oh, wow. So imagine the dog coming over on a boat on a train getting here. You had you know, we had our first women judge and the 30s. I mean, it's just it's so crazy. When you think about those things. We had demonstrations by the police, the ASPCA was involved in Westminster. For those folks who, you know, don't? Or are more animal rights issues right now. So they have to realize this is really a celebration of dogs. And yeah, so it's, it's lovely to see all of the breeds. Westminster is extremely special, because a lot of people don't realize this. Westminster predates the AKC. Oh, wow. So a lot of those founding members or members of the Westminster what at the time, it was called the Westminster breeding Association, and then became the Westminster Kennel Club. You know, they were a lot of them were breeding horses and dogs. But, yes, so the show is iconic in that sense. I mean, some people say it's the Super Bowl of dogs. And you know, the only thing that's compare comparable is crops in the UK. They're their annual dog show.

Lisa 
13:45
Right. Now, how does the judging work at the W Casey show?

Charlotte 
13:49
Well, that's a great question. And a lot of people don't realize that so. And also, they watch television at night, too. There's three levels of judging. The first level is the breed competition. I think there's probably like 192 dogs being shown this year, something along those lines. The AKC has 200 registered breeds. There's no There's also varieties, breeds and varieties. So there's 212 breeds and varieties. So what I mean by a variety is when you look at for example, the English toy spaniel or the Doxon, you have smooth coat, rough coat, and wire coat. So that's a variety. Same thing with poodles, you have toy Mini and standard. So that's a variety, all shown. So that's the breed competition. And then also on the first day, you have three sets, four sets of three, the four groupings of dogs and we'll go into that in a minute. And then on the second day when we have Best in Show we have three there's seven groups of dogs that are broken down. So at the breed competition, depending on the group that the dog is in overall group that will go on and that's what's seen on television at night. Okay, okay, so then from breed you have group which we see at night. And then on Tuesday night the last competition is Best in Show. And you know people sit with their golden retriever I say the golden because the golden or the Labrador are very popular breeds of dog. The Labrador up until this past year was 31, the number one AKC registered dog up until this year. So you sit with your pocket and you don't understand why didn't the golden when the golden was so beautiful. But what happens with the dog show is the judges are actually comparing each individual dog to the breed standard, which is set forth by the AKC. So whatever dog looks the best or is just like the breed standard, and that can be the gate. Some dogs kind of kind of gallop sometimes kind of walk slow, there are big bone. So the judge that's why the judge looks at the teeth. Some dogs can have, you know, missing teeth are crooked mouth, but that's a consensus part of the standard. So if you have a dog that you love, go and look at the akc.org American Kennel Club. org website. So you can see your breed standard, and that can even be ear set I set so that's what the judge is looking for. They are judging those dogs compared to the breed standard. And of course, some dogs have a bad day.

Lisa 
16:30
Yeah, that is true. Now what is the new AKC breed being shown?

Charlotte 
16:34
Oh, well, that's really interesting. The AKC breed being shown the 200th registered dog is the Bronco italiano. And this is a gun dog. It's slow moving, it has a big head. It's probably dates back to they think the fourth or fifth century AD but some people even think it's earlier was very fashionable dog up until the late 1800s, where a lot of the English were going to Italy and bringing the English pointer and the English shuttering. So during the late 1800s and early 1900s, we saw a lot of mixing. It was very difficult to find a pure brocco italiano. They're definitely a dog that likes to work the field. And they weren't so much of a gun dog as they were a sporting dog in the sense where they would go out in the field, find the dogs, and then the Italians would throw nets over the quail. That's how they would capture the quail. So it is a very nice dog. It's very comical. And it's a beautiful dog. It's definitely a dog that loves a family. It's not an apartment dog, it needs to have a lot of exercise. So look out for that breed of dog at the 147 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Lisa 
17:52
Now you mentioned that there's 200 breeds right in the show. Is that correct? I think there's

Charlotte 
17:58
about I think there's about about 200. So there's a few breeds that aren't represented. I think there are dogs from about 48 states as well. And then of course, there are dogs that come from all over the world. And I'm sure we'll see dogs from Italy. I'm sure we'll see dogs from Malaysia. One year actually, when King the wire fox terrier won a few years ago with Gabriel wrangle Gabriel is tied with Peter Green for winning the dog show three times. Coming out pulling out Best in Show with his dogs. So Gabriel originally came from Mexico, the dog was bred in Brazil, and now was in the US. So one of the things I asked Gabriel when I interviewed him I said is the dog trilingual? does it speak Spanish, Portuguese and English? And he said I think so. I think so.

Lisa 
18:54
Oh, wow. Oh, I love that. Now what is the largest breed entry?

Charlotte 
19:00
Well believe it or not, it's one of our favorites. It's the golden retriever. There are 51 Golden Retrievers entered this year. Oh Mike, I know can you imagine all that hair all those dogs lined up all those sweet faces you know?

Lisa 
19:16
Well, if people who was in the show know that my heart goes to the pities. I have the sweetest blue nose pit. All he wants to do is cuddle he's just an angel. And then I have a lovely lab as well and more of a white lab than yellow actually. And I don't know if we got him from the shelter. I don't know what his deal is. But he's so he's got kind of course fluffy hair on his back. So we're always wondering if there's something else in there. But oh my god, the shedding. I feel like I live with 51 Labs. I mean, I vacuum three times a day.

Charlotte 
19:46
Well, there's two things obviously American Staffordshire Terriers are being shown at the show, which is that's always a nice thing to see. And, you know, we see stories about the breed that are not always the best Stories, but they're great companions. You know, a lot of it has to do with good finding a good breeder, but it also has to do how you train and treat your dog. So the Environment Matters. You know, dogs are such great family members. And they're not to be stuck in our houses all day, urinating and pee and pooping on pee pads are just going in the yard, they need to get out and they need to move around. And a lot of these dogs, a lot of people don't realize these dogs belong to owners who love them. And when they're not showing a lot of times, whether they're with a handler or they go back home or a breeder owner handler, they're sitting on the couch, just like Churchill here. Yeah, so Exactly. Yeah. It's I mean, that's what's so great about seeing all these great dogs.

Lisa 
20:46
Yeah, I'm super excited. Now in the evening at the show on both Monday and Tuesday night, the breed winners are shown in groups, right, like you were saying, and then how many dog groups are there? Yeah, there's seven.

Charlotte 
20:58
So you have terrier toy? Sporting non-sporting Working hound and hurting.

Lisa 
21:06
Okay. All right. So blue is it would be so the Staffordshire Terriers, right, yeah. And then the my lab would be in the Sporting Dog. What's an example of a non Sporting Dog?

Charlotte 
21:18
The French Bulldog. Okay. They are so cute. And they're the now they're the number one AKC registered dog I was about to ask about that. You know, it's funny. Every, you see them on telephone cases on socks and clothing and sheets. But then you also hear about the horrible kidnapping. And I don't necessarily mean Lady Gaga situation was the people who stole her dog didn't know they were Lady Gaga as dogs. They just stole the dogs. There are cases all over this country and actually wrote an article about dog napping. And because it's so prevalent with the French Bulldog. You know, I offered some tips, and one of the things I'll tell people is, and I was guilty of it until I actually thought about it. And one of the reasons it was really concerning for me was I walked my dogs at five o'clock in the morning. And I had to stop doing it for a variety of reasons. One, I'm walking for dogs. And what if someone pulled up against me and said, pulled out a gun and a lot of cases, whether it's in a rural, I mean, a suburban or city area, it's happened, I'm not going to be able to jump in the car and save the dogs. And if someone has a gun pointed in my face, I'm going to have to give them my dogs. So I stopped walking them early in the morning. And also there's a few loose dogs, a couple of my neighborhood decided to open the gate and let their dog out run around the neighborhood. So it's hard when you're walking for dogs in the morning to deal with any Oh, yeah, craziness, you know, worse.

Charlotte 
22:57
But yeah, it's something and I'm glad that I brought this up, because whether it's dog napping, and you know, obviously, I did a show on the French Bulldog. And that was I had a security expert come and talk about what you would do in those particular cases. But you also have to realize that you have to when you decide that you want to breed and everyone finds a dog they fall in love with it, whether it's at this show or another AKC registered dog or you see a picture or a movie or something you have to before you buy a dog, I always tell people, it's really important to understand what are the significant health problems of that particular dog. So for with the I mean, the French Bulldog, as cute as they are, have a myriad of health problems. You know, they have they're bred a lot of people have done extreme breeding. So you have that nose really flat and that face flat, right, a lot of them have breathing problems, skin problems, spine problems, they do not take the heat well. So you're not going to give that dog a lot of exercise. As the hot weather, you know, we get into the summers out of the spring and into the summer season. So I mean even the Bronco has, has kidney problems. And it's funny when I was interviewing the president of the Bronco italiana club turns out, she works. She's a veterinarian at the University of Florida and a lot of her research in the last few years have involved the brocco italiano but at any dog, you know, like, for example, with Rottweilers, there was a study done at the Royal College of Veterinary Medicine in the UK. And they just did a study an ACL, you know, my and it turns out the Rottweiler the Bijon are prime candidates in the UK for having ACL surgery, which is you know, we're talking anywhere from eight to $10,000.

Lisa 
24:49
Yeah, blue had to have both of his done, which was interesting and he blue also as a pity he's got skin issues, he's got allergies, he gets ear infections all the time. And then Benji, now that he's nine he had As terrible arthritis as allowed or,

Charlotte 
25:03
and that's why it's important to keep you know, talk to your vet about weight. And make sure your dog is staying slender without being emaciated as possible because, you know, overweight dogs suffer from joint problems. They suffer from diabetes, respiratory problems. And it's really hard. You know, we love I always say we love our dogs to death, we want to keep giving them treats.

Lisa 
25:31
So I think that is so important. Now, Charlie, don't you have a book?

Charlotte 
25:35
I do? I have the misfire actually. Believe it or not. It's here I have the Miss Fido manners, Complete Book of dog etiquette. I'm actually I wrote this book. Because when I wrote the book, there was a time when people started doing all these fashion shows and taking their dogs traveling. The misconception is that people started taking traveling with their dog in the last 15 to 20 years. That's not true. Think about one of our favorite movies, which is Murder on the Orient Express. Do you remember that movie? Lisa? Yeah. And the princess Dragomir of.isa  I remember seeing her in her glory. And she had her and Helga her housekeeper held up those two Pekinese. Yeah, so. And then the other thing that I always remind people of, I'm gonna say about 12 years ago, actually, even longer, probably in the late 90s, early 2000s, Louie Vuitton came out with recreated or re manufactured their famous dog bag, and people were buying it in droves. They couldn't keep it in stock. But once they got the bag, they'd show it off with the promise, that bag was so heavy to carry your toy dog in. And what they didn't realize that bag was I originally created for train and ship travel. Ah, so the bag is kind of bulky and has a handle, it's really hard to maneuver with a strap. In some cases, it can be way more than your dog. So, you know, I mean, it's just it's one of the things that you always that we need to think about, you know, like, how if we why we buy the dogs that we do. I mean, for me, I have toy dogs now I've always had big dogs, but when I started really working in television, I needed a dog that can be washed in a hotel bathroom, right? And didn't need a lot of fancy grooming. And it just so happened there was a magazine called Dog and kennel. It was the last issue of the dog and there was a blend of English toy and I was in the I was thinking about getting a pappy on. And then, you know, with his great ears and you see them the small dogs always competing in agility the pappy yawns and then I saw this breed and I was like, that's the breed for me.

Lisa 
27:47
Right now. Do you have to worry about the problems because isn't their nose a bit smushed up to

Charlotte 
27:51
there is. So I what I do is I walk generally, I walk my dogs three times a day. I mean, coming from New York City now I live in Florida, but so i i walked them early in the morning, like I this morning, I walked in probably around six o'clock when it's still cool. And then I try to walk them before 10 again, and then I walk them in the evening, probably around seven and then you know, during the rest of the day, because I work from home, they go in the yard.

Lisa 
28:18
All right, what are what are their personalities like?

Charlotte 
28:23
It's funny because a friend of mine once said to me, those English toys have no personality, they have plenty of personality. They're just kind of laid back. They're really a one. They're a one person dog. They're kind of you know, it's funny, I just did. I was just writing something for an article about cat breeds. And I was writing on the Scottish Fold and, and I wrote something along the lines of it's a great cat. But even if it's it's fine for a busy household, but and they're they're loyal to one person. And that's probably why Taylor Swift likes them so much. So there,is they're loyal. They're easy, they're easy to take care of them and you could wash the dog in a bathtub. You have to pay attention to the falls and their skin and around their eyes and clean their ears because any dog that has a folded ear to clean them a lot. Okay, but they're easy to take care of and they will watch you at a distance like I mean, I'm remember having my golden Cockers I'd be, you know, sitting on the couch or working and they'd be lying on my feet right up against me. You know, they'll they'll just look at you from afar see what's they'll follow you into the next room. They'll follow you into the bathroom, but they're just kind of like, hey, they're highly intelligent, and they're easy to deal with. There. It might not be a breed for a house with a lot of young boys who are running around there. I'm not saying they're a delicate dog, but they are to a certain extent. And when I go to bed at night, there is At least to English toys in the bed. Oh, that's sometimes hammy who's not a big cobbler. He will sleep in the bedroom. Occasionally he might jump up on the bed for like 10 minutes. But he's not like he'll cuddle with me. He's, you know, it's just interesting. I mean, Churchill, in some ways changed the dynamic because he's very active. He's a puppy. He loves everybody loves all the dogs here. So he kind of inspired hammy and Wally to play they're not really necessarily big players, you need to have a group of them all running around jumping on each other. But it's a quiet dog. I'm not. I'm not a person who wants a barking dog. So even though I have a toy dog, I'd never have a Yorkie Barker's, you know, Hannah, my golden would bark if somebody rang the doorbell. Or she heard something outside. I like a quiet house.

Lisa 
31:01
That is just me, Charlotte, I would love for you to come back. I want to read your book, because I read all the books cover to cover. So we can have having my book I thought in depth I don't actually, I will make sure you, you get what nice Charlotte, tell us about your nationally syndicated radio show the pet buzz, that's sure.

Charlotte 
31:20
It's a labor of love. It's the it's the measuring line of my week. I've been very fortunate that when I did the radio show, which and then in turn becomes a podcast, it airs depending on local markets anywhere from Friday to Tuesday, which means I really have to plan. You know, like we did our Kentucky Derby show the week before last, or Westminster show will air this weekend. Because I always have to think about that in terms of when people get the information. And then we put our podcast on Monday. You know, I like to say which is very unusual that anyone from the ages of 12 to 75. can enjoy the show. We cover pet health and wellness. Obviously, we cover trends, we talk about pet products, we have a few celebrities on the show, and politicians as well, whether they're talking about dog law, we really try to get the creme de la creme of people all over the world.

Lisa 
32:21
Oh, that's awesome.

Charlotte 
32:24
So I'll give you an example. There is a guy named Greg Larsen. He's at Oxford. And he's really responsible for a movement that's going on right now, which is all over the world. It's looking at, it's looking at early man through their dogs. So and it's, you know, for example, maybe in the last two or three years, there were some sin, Arizona, they found bones of a dog. And of course with ancient DNA techniques, they believe that people came across the Bering Straits into the Americas at a certain time. Well, the bones predate that time. So now they know that people were here earlier. There's another gal at University of Copenhagen. Her name is Tatyana, fusion Berg, and she did research on a community in Siberia. And it turns out, we know that a lot of the Siberian culture was isolated. A lot of the DNA is continuous, folks. But what they found was and they thought those communities were really isolated. So when they dug up bones of dogs, all of a sudden, they were like, say why? Because some of the dogs they found were not what you picture your big, you know, hairy Alaskan Malamute types or Siberian wolf types. They found that some of these dogs look like dogs at the time that were in Eastern and Western Europe. So they started to think that these dogs that those cultures were actually coming south trading, and actually took dogs back with them. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I mean, this movement is going on with people all over the world. And there there are other things that we like to talk about, like, for example, you know, we talk about, you know, how, and it can be something political, like in the sense where, you know, when you look at countries like North and South Korea, you look at Russia, and specifically Chernobyl, how certain the gray wolf is coming back to that area since Chernobyl, you know, there are a few people obviously, who have worked on the reactor there, but how certain species are coming back. Like the gray wolf is coming back to that area, the vegetation, the flora and the fauna between North and South Korea that you mile border. So we talk about bees, and how they you know, how they relate to the food supply. I mean, without bees, we wouldn't have food. So yeah, we try to make it you know, it's primarily dogs and cats Lee Lisa Uh, but we talked about other things just in terms of, you know, and we'll talk about, like, you know, popular dog names. I mean, we'll talk about books. So we don't talk about books enough, but that's why you're here.

Lisa 
35:15
Yes. That's not to say this is good. That's why it's like, listen to both of us. Yeah.

Charlotte 
35:19
At one time I did a blog on on on books. But have you ever interviewed Rita Mae Brown? No, I would love to you, you should try to interview because she's got some great books. There's always a dog and her murder mysteries, or it's always, it's always great. I mean, there's some really great books out there. I mean, you know, it's, it's unfortunate that dog publishing is not what it was 20 years ago. But there are some it's still nice to hold a book, and I love it and smell a book. Yes. You know what one book that I think you need to get it is the Westminster Kennel Club, the dog show, 125 years of Westminster definitely still buy this book. It's by William stifle he's passed on now. It has gotten some lovely pictures and invitations and tells you about the history and dog show posters. And what's nice about this book is this book inspired me to collect Westminster memorabilia. Oh, nice. So I, one of one of the great pieces. I actually have this in the past, I guess, six, six or so months. I collected too early letters from the early 1900s, written on Westminster stationery. I have I actually probably about six months ago, I scored a news just I just have the newspaper clipping a review of the first dog show. So I primarily clicked from 1877 to probably about 41. I have a few things from the 60s. One of the things that I love is McCall's fabric patterns, you know,

Lisa 
37:05
yeah, yeah, I remember those. And my mom used to say, great. There was Betsy

Charlotte 
37:09
McCall went to the dog show. So Betsy McCall, obviously, McCall fabrics patterns. They did a series of wooden dolls, and they did paper cutout dolls that I have actually both and that's one of my favorite things. Because a lot of this stuff is very male oriented. But the Betsy McCall stuff, it's this little girl, and she's showing dogs and so the paper cutouts, you can actually cut the outfits out and put put them on her. And she's got a leash in her little dog. And then the wooden dolls she's dressed. So those are two of my favorite things. But a lot of the early covers in Harper and various magazines that are obviously no longer published I actually have so people are always surprised because they don't. There's not a lot of stuff. But there's enough it's so I every so often I start looking I have a few dealers who find who will find things for me and you know, call me and say hey, I have this are you interested? And actually it's funny. I just started collecting a few Philadelphia Kennel Club things. And which is really interesting is their early pendant has an English bulldog and a boy. And I was talking to the president of the club and you know, the dog show that runs during Thanksgiving. The in house announcer is the president of the club Wayne Ferguson. And so I said, Hey, I got this. It was it was broken. It was actually I thought it was a pin and somebody had turned it into a pin because they have put brass on the back but the pin was gone. But it turned out it was a pendant. Oh, so I had found another one. I had asked somebody if they had the person I bought it from I said do you have another one? And she goes no, but I know somebody who does have one. So I bought it in March. It still hasn't come it got lost in the post office somewhere but hopefully that it'll show up and we'll find it but that's a pendant that I'll actually wear around my neck.

Lisa 
39:11
Oh my gosh, that is so cool. Charlotte, you have so much great information. I'm excited to read your book and have you back. So this weekend, we can watch. Sure you

Charlotte 
39:21
could start watching on you could start watching today there's the Masters agility Westminster, we'll have doc diving over the weekend. Dr. Pol is going to be there. And then Monday and Tuesday. They will have conformation and that's what we see at night. But if you have a specific breed that you love, you could go to the Westminster Kennel club.org site you can find out when your brain is showing and you can watch live and then after they will post the videos. The night coverage is going to be on fox sports one as well as one and two. So the best thing to get all your information is just go to Westminster Kennel club.org and check everything out. Actually, the show starts tomorrow and it's the sixth, the seventh, the eighth and the ninth. So, yeah, it's it's great. And I'm hoping. And like I said, it's, you know, it's funny, but West Westminster this year, we'll be at the US Tennis Center, and it's not too late. People can still buy tickets if they want to go to the show. Yeah, it'll be fun. I'll be leaving the Derby, leaving Kentucky on Sunday morning, believe it or not, I couldn't get a flight back to New York. So I'm going to drive Sunday morning to the Cincinnati airport, which is in Hebron, Kentucky, and then fly across the country to New York for the dog show. So like I said, it's going to be an iconic weekend for me putting all my purple outfits together. I will be wearing green for the derby. And actually, I'm doing something a little different. I will be wearing a jumpsuit and not a dress.

Lisa 
41:00
Okay. Oh, and like jumpsuits? Yeah,

Charlotte 
41:03
I do too. So I have a nice green, you know, summer, spring green. And Mike, Christine just has three hats for me. And I haven't decided which one to pick. So ill, I'll get that. On Saturday.

Lisa 
41:19
So fun will surely give us your website.

Charlotte 
41:21
Sure. People can go to the pet buzz.com. They can listen to the show. But most importantly, they can listen on their favorite streaming channel, which is, you know, Google Play Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud. So yeah, and we've got this this week. We have Gail Miller, who's the Director of Communications, the host, David helming, who's the show chair. We have a man Dr. Amanda and men who is the president of the bronco. italiana club. And we also have Gina DiNardo, who is the Executive Secretary of the American Kennel Club, and she talks about finding the dogs of your dream.

Lisa 
42:04
Oh, that's so nice. Yeah,

Charlotte 
42:06
I think it'll be cool.

Lisa 
42:06
I love that, Charlotte, I'm so excited for you. You're gonna have such a fun weekend. Are you going to post some of your pictures from your exciting weekend? I'm gonna post

Charlotte 
42:13
my pictures good. Um, I'm going to do some live. Facebook Lives from the show. You know, especially seeing the new venue and actually have a great guest. I'm taking with me one of my favorite guests who does the show on a regular basis is Dr. Tina Wismar. And she's the medical director for the ASPCA poison control center. So she's going to come with me and I found out recently that she shows boys are rushing wolf hounds. So I'm excited Tina and I will we actually made plans to meet up at the airport on Sunday, and then we'll enjoy the show together, so it'll be great.

Lisa 
42:56
Oh, well, I'm so glad you came on. It was so much fun. I can't wait to have you back. You know, you're always welcome here on dog eared and everybody. Follow me on Tik Tok Instagram and Twitter to see my good boys past and present. And while you're here, check out health power. Keep coming back. Thanks so much.