{"id":33113,"date":"2025-02-12T04:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/giant-schnauzer-named-monty-named-americas-top-dog-in-westminster-first\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T04:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:54:45","slug":"giant-schnauzer-named-monty-named-americas-top-dog-in-westminster-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/giant-schnauzer-named-monty-named-americas-top-dog-in-westminster-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant schnauzer named Monty named America\u2019s top dog in Westminster first"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Giant schnauzer wins out in best-of-seven final ring<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/feb\/11\/westminster-dog-kennel-club-show-results-winners-updates\">Westminster Dog Show 2025 \u2013 live reaction <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A giant schnauzer named Monty is America\u2019s top canine after earning the title of best in show on Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Paula Nykiel chose the five-year-old black schnauzer over a stacked field of six other group winners, among them a whippet named Bourbon (awarded reserve best in show), a German shepherd named Mercedes, and English springer spaniel named Freddie, a bichon fris\u00e9 named Neal, a Skye terrier named Archer and Comet, a sassy, crowd-pleasing shih tzu who won the toy group for a second consecutive year only to again be pipped at the final hurdle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/11\/westminster-best-in-show-giant-schnauzer-monty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant schnauzer wins out in best-of-seven final ring Westminster Dog Show 2025 \u2013 live reaction A giant schnauzer named Monty is America\u2019s top canine after earning the title of best in show on Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Judge Paula Nykiel chose the five-year-old black schnauzer over a stacked field of &#8230; <a title=\"Giant schnauzer named Monty named America\u2019s top dog in Westminster first\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/giant-schnauzer-named-monty-named-americas-top-dog-in-westminster-first\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Giant schnauzer named Monty named America\u2019s top dog in Westminster first\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}