Equal Opportunity Dog Shows

Did you watch the Westminster Dog Show this year?

Seeing those pampered pooches with x-treme furdos strutting their stuff prompted me to start this blog.

You see, I'm a mutt. I might have street creds, but I don't have the "papers" that would allow me past the velvet rope at dog shows like Westminster.

It's not that I have anything against pedigrees -- some of my best friends are full-bloods and designer "oodle" dogs and "uggles." Heck, one of my purebred, champion-stock, eight-named cousins even showed at Westminster one year. (Huskies from Florida, but that's another post).

Anyway, watching Westminister got me thinking about equal opportunity for dogs.

Now that Obama's in the White House, humans are celebrating our "post-racial" nation. We are now officially color-blind!!! Well, isn't it time Americans became breed-blind as well?

My goal is to foster open and honest discussion of this subject -- and of all issues important to canines. Are we mutts? Or mutt-Americans? Can we achieve equity with our pedigreed bretheren? Do we want equality, with all the negatives it entails -- silly furcuts, endless trots around a ring, pokes and prods by "experts" who pass judgment on our bones and teeth and temperment?

Should the doors to the American Kennel Club be open to all, or just to the select few?

I'd like to hear your thoughts, whether you're a Heinz or a Havanese, a mutt or a Maltese, a canine or a cat . . . my blog is open to you!