NEW YORK—To the casual viewer, competing at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show might look pretty simple: Get a dog. Groom it. Pose it. Lead it around a ring.
But there’s a lot more than that to getting to and exhibiting in the United States’ most prestigious canine event, now in its 147th year.
So here are the ins and outs of the show, which starts Saturday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
How Many Dogs Compete?
Twenty-five hundred dogs from 210 different breeds and varieties signed up to vie for the best in show trophy that gets awarded Tuesday night. (Varieties are subsets of breeds. Think smooth, longhaired and wirehaired dachshunds.)…