# The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-2011/571262 "2011-02-14T01:00:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-2011/571262/41 "2011-02-16T16:45:15Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s what _you_ think. It sounds more like your dog roped you into chaffeuring him around without paying you a salary. 😉 Well, yeah… there _IS_ that too… 😛 About the short life expectancy, it is a gereral rule of thumb, the larger the dog, the shorter the life span. It has nothing to do with them being ‘show dogs’ But yeah, I could never have one of the giant breeds, tho I LOVE Great Danes, and really like what I’ve seen of Leonbergers. I couldn’t deal with that heartbreak. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-2011/571262/42 "2011-02-16T20:00:58Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I’m partial to cuddly hairy dogs but I thought the Weimeraner (sp?) should have made the cut. Loved the way he moved, and he really had a presence. > > A couple things surprised me – that so many of the dogs are “just dogs”, like the ones that are working when they’re not showing – and that some of the dogs are older. One was eight and a half years old! I’ve always thought show dogs were like race horses – your career is over at the age of two or three. In 2009, the BIS was 10 years old. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-2011/571262/43 "2011-02-17T01:40:54Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Words fail me. At least those that can be used outside of the pit. > > Unless you know of humans purposefully selecting close relatives as breeding partners in order to enhance a purely arbitrary, physical attribute for the purpose of glory and cold hard cash and vanity, your example doesn’t work. See the pit thread on this for my answer… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-2011/571262.md?page=2)