Word: dogdom
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...rattled their chains, baboon-faced Afghans paced and snarled, scrappy little Skye terriers yapped through their long hair. Off in a corner, professional handlers gave their charges a last-minute grooming before they went upstairs to strut. Their necks strapped high in dressing stands, long-suffering purebreds submitted to dogdom's final indignity: a beauty treatment. Frisky beagles were primped and powdered like debutantes; embarrassed poodles got a final fluff on the ruthless clipping that had turned them into clowns...
...second floor of a shoddy building surrounded by vacant lots and tattered billboards, two men and a woman have dedicated themselves to giving Dogdom an education. They realize the era is passing when dogs are judged on beauty rather than intelligence. Today, the untrained barkers, chasers, and nippers are outcasts, while the educated canine is acceptable everywhere. The school's slogan proclaims: "Modern Living Requires it...Goodwill of Neighbors Demands...
Scores of Long Islanders flooded the Newsday switchboard with telephone calls to do something about what Newsday called "dogdom's Dachau." At week's end, a citizens' committee had formed, and 100 anti-Roeper petitions were circulating...
Last week, the fleetest greyhounds money could buy congregated at Abilene, Kans. to race in the U.S. Challenge Cup. It was dogdom's Kentucky Derby, run over a green carpet of young Kansas wheat about two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood home. This greyhound is Mount Mahan Rebel, who cost Owner George Oswald of Los Angeles $3,500 in Ireland less than a year ago. In the cup final, he met a grey and white Texas dog named Foggy Weather. While chasing a jack rabbit at 40 m.p.h., the pair of them crashed like two speeding autos...
...just before midnight, it was the Bedlington and his handler that he motioned to the ring's center. Champion Rock Ridge Night Rocket thus became 1948's top dog: "best in show" of 2,540 entries at the Westminster Dog Show, most prestigious event in U.S. dogdom...