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# Meet Trump, the Australian Shepherd Who Just Won Big at the Westminster Dog Show

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## Video: A Look At Some of the Top Breeds at the 2019 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

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_Published 2019-02-12. A look at some of the breeds at the 2019 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show_


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## Rachel E. Greenspan


Feb 12, 2019 8:06 PM UTC

A look at some of the breeds at the 2019 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show 

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[Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/)


## Rachel E. Greenspan


Feb 12, 2019 8:06 PM UTC

The [President of the United States was in Texas on Tuesday](http://time.com/5522904/donald-trump-el-paso-wall/), but someone else named Trump made waves in New York.

At the 2019 Westminster Dog Show, one Australian Shepherd named [Trump](http://time.com/5527568/trump-pet-dog-phony/) won best of his breed, leaving some fans of the Westminster Kennel Club’s program to interpret the name as a political message of some kind. But Trump’s co-owner and co-breeder, Pat Zapf, tells TIME that the show dog’s name has absolutely nothing to do with the President of the United States. Actually, it has everything to do with a card game.

When the dog was born in 2012, naming him after the ‘trump card’ in bridge — a wild card which changes from hand to hand — seemed innocuous to Zapf, whose grandparents always played the game throughout her childhood. “But at the time, I obviously didn’t know where our political standings would go,” she says.

Upon learning his name, when people react both positively and negatively, Zapf isn’t bothered. “The dog doesn’t know that his name is a controversial topic,” she says over the phone, driving home through the snow to Pennsylvania after Trump’s successes in New York. “He doesn’t care at all. He wants his pets and cookies.” But sometimes, he’ll even have his absolute favorite treat, marshmallows—Trump “has a sweet tooth,” she explains.

The 6-year-old Trump is a star at more than just snacking, though. He won awards of merit in the 2016 and 2018 Westminster competitions and was the No. 1 male Australian Shepherd in 2015\. “He’s an old hat at showing,” Zapf says. “He certainly knows what he’s doing out there and he loves his job.”


This will be Trump’s last year competing in shows, but that’s okay—Zapf says the dog will be just as happy laying on the couch and eating potato chips. “He’s had a pretty illustrious career as an Australian Shepherd show dog,” she says, “but more than anything, he’s our pet.”


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[00:02] I
[00:05] think
[00:08] West Minister dogs show being the second in all sporting
[00:11] events is getting very popular. Whoever want
[00:15] it its known as American Dog. For the next year 2, 800 that
[00:18] are entered which is the maximum number. Approximately
[00:22] 2, 600 of those are champions already. They come from all
[00:26] 50 states and we have like 7 different countries where they
[00:28] come from. So you really have, that's why they call it
[00:31] American Dog Show because it's the most amount of
[00:33] champion show. And there's a lot of big winners that
[00:37] have competed all year To come to the Westminster and
[00:42] there's a lot a lot of top dogs your various breeds.
[00:43] [ MUSIC ] We expect to
[00:50] have 203 breeds of dogs represented, at the end of the day
[00:54] all the best of breed go down and compete at Madison
[00:56] Square Garden night. Into our four respective groups, a
[01:01] hound group, toy group, non- sporting group and herding
[01:03] group. We have about 35 judges. Each one of them is
[01:06] recognized by the American Kennel Club in certain breeds.
[01:10] They judge those dogs to a standard. And they pick in their
[01:13] mind who the best representative is of that breed. [ MUSIC ]
[01:16] The thing
[01:28] that makes an Old English Sheep dog different is first off all
[01:32] the coat, it has a certain texture and it can't
[01:36] be curly but it can't be straight either, it's kinda be kind of It's
[01:41] suppose to have a big head. It's suppose to have a big
[01:45] nose. They are suppose to be taller at the hip
[01:49] than they are in widther. So you can see that he's slant
[01:53] upward going that direction. And that helps him travel
[01:58] easily long distances. [ MUSIC ] This
[02:02] is Welsh Springer Spaniel. Their country of origin is Wales.
[02:06] The breeds standards say that they are rectangular dog.
[02:10] That means that they should have good confirmation to be
[02:14] able to reach and drag. So reach in the front and push of
[02:17] on the rear to flash birds and chase rabbits
[02:22] So their form follows their function. Their function is a
[02:26] hunter and they need to have good confirmation in order
[02:30] to do that. [ MUSIC ] They are both [ UNKNOWN ].
[02:34] In the confirmation showi ring, there's part that they can't
[02:39] train into them. They have to have A self- confidence.
[02:43] They're suppose to be a very proud breeds so when they
[02:44] walk, they hold their head up high and their tails are up.
[02:49] What would set the dogs apart from another one is their
[02:53] courage, you know, their sense of self because it's
[02:57] just like, it's a charisma type thing that draws a judges high
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