Established 1919 · Hale Drive at Alpoce Road
Simply the Finest Dog Shows Since 1919
One of our prized show dogs, Piddles, has been nabbed. She is a Pekingese. She was in the ring. Then the lights went out, and she was not. Best in Show judging will not continue until she is recovered, or until the judge says the situation has stopped being catastrophic. Any information should be sent to Judy Smith, Sittensteigh judge. Not to the concession stand. Not to a cousin. To Judy.
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Piddles has been competing professionally for two years and has the expression of a dog who already knows the trophy speech. Her handler is Andi Benson. If you have seen a small dog, a black hat, or a leash with nobody fashionable on the end of it, the judge would like the details while they are still details.
The other three finalists are still accounted for. Brutus, Cupcake, and Starla remain in town and, we are assured, un-nabbed. The ring at Hale Drive is quiet in a way a dog show is not supposed to be. The green carpet has been swept. The sweeping did not produce a Pekingese.
Since the early 1900s, Sittensteigh has treated dogs as neighbors who happen to be shorter. You will see them at the pictures, at the lanes, and under desks that were not built for them. In 1919 Mayor Daron Beck decided the town should show them off. The show outlived the mayor's retirement, a ham-related scandal, and at least one year when the tent blew into Crystal Brooke Lake and the lake was briefly the winner.
Previous champions, the ones we can still name without the napkin.