Actor, author and "Family Feud” host John O’Hurley teams up with canine expert David Frei as hosts for The National Dog Show, taped the weekend before Thanksgiving at the Kennel Club of Philadelphia’s annual event.
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It airs at 11 a.m. Thursday on NBC and is one of only six remaining "benched” shows in the country, where dogs remain in the facility to interact with the public.
"I think it’s a rally of the troops this year,” O’Hurley says, "a sense of ‘This is what we have,’ and you start to appreciate what you have rather than what you have not.
"The show will do well this year. I think Thanksgiving will be a deeper, more meaningful Thanksgiving this year, for the things that are in your grasp and controllable.”
Sadly, O’Hurley recently lost one of his dogs, a rescued mixed breed named Betty. His other dog, Maltese Scoshi, is getting up in years.
If you’re up to wagering another helping of pumpkin pie over which dog takes this year’s Best in Show, remember that the 2007 winner was a female Australian shepherd who goes by the name of Swizzle. But this past February, a beagle named Uno was the winner of the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York.
So it’s anyone’s guess.
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