DAY ONE IN WINONA MN

GCH CH Warpug Black and Blue Reme 

Many fanciers will go a lifetime and not see a black Pug win a BIS. Spectators at Saturday’s Coulee Kennel Club show in Winona MN were treated to the rare sight when judge Barbara Dempsey Alderman named GCH CH Warpug Black and Blue Reme, her Best In Show.

Judge Alderman might have chosen the Irish Setter, GCH CH Tramore Notorious, the Afghan Hound, GCH CH Rustic Dark Mirage Spirit Ridge, the Akita, Daykeyne Eatin My Cake Too, her RBIS, the Scottish Terrier, GCH CH Anstamm Sodak Go West Young Man, the Dalmatian, GCH CH Blackberry N Riverside Perfect Pemigewasset, or the Bouvier des Flandres, GCH CH Margaux’s Va Voom, but she didn’t. It was the second BIS in six trips to the final ring this year for Reme and handler Gary Cupp.