Results tagged “bluetick” from South Bay Pets

It was all about dogs today. First up was first day of dog school for Rocket. Not much to report. The instructor, a lady named Barbara who has been training dogs for many, many years, told us what we can expect in upcoming classes. The real work will start next week.

Class is at the Kritter Korral in Harbor City. Next session is next Saturday.

There are an alarming number of small dogs in the class, so we'll see how distracted Rocket gets.

From there, I went straight to a Dog Show in Torrance. The event is held by the South Bay Kennel Club and is the only AKC sanctioned event in the South Bay.

There were hundreds of dogs there, but the one I was most interested in meeting was a bluetick coonhound -- the same breed as Rocket. I've never seen one before.

I looked around until I met Blue, who is a little smaller than my dog and has slightly different coloring, but you could tell they were the same breed. And when Blue started barking for no apparent reason, he sounded exactly like my pup.

Blue's owner is a lady named Dee Gunter of Yucca Valley. She's owned blueticks since 1972!

Dee told me that Blue was the very first bluetick to compete in such an event.

You can read about it in Sunday's paper.

And if you want to go to the dog show, it continues Sunday. It's free! They're holding it in the field at North High School in Torrance, 2620 West 182nd St.

Tell 'em Rocket sent you.

There are 1,263 chihuahuas named Princess living in Los Angeles County, making it the most common name-breed combination of all dogs.

What's particularly amusing to me about that is that while I was between dogs, my landlord parked his dog in my backyard for about a year. Yes, she was a chihuahua named Princess -- not exactly the kind of dog you want living in your house when you're a single, middle-aged man, if you know what I mean.

Here are some other fun things I learned on this really cool database the LA Times put togehter:

•  There are 164 dogs named Rocket
• There are 56 bluetick coonhounds.
• There are 1,985 dogs living in my zip code (one of which is a bluetick coonhound named Rocket.

There are plenty of other fascinating things you can find on the database, which has really   clever categories like spaced-themed names (Rocket, Comet, Cosmo), dogs named after celebrities (there's an Alec Baldwin out there somewhere) and dogs named after food (Hello, Spaghetti!)

You can mix and match your searches. You can see how many of your favorite  breed live in your neighborhood, stuff like that.

But I should warn you: It's addictive.