David Frei is Ruff and Ready for that National Dog Show

David Frei and John O'Hurley The Nation's Dog Show - that many surprising of Thanksgiving TV traditions - will air for that tenth year immediately after the Macy's Parade (Thursday, noon/11c, NBC). We've got the program's esteemed cohost, pup expert David Frei, to release a couple of ideas. TV Guide Magazine: How can this be show this type of good match Thanksgiving? Each year, the rankings kill! Last year's show stopped 18 million audiences.Frei: If you do not like football or don't wish to help in the kitchen area, it's perfect! Plus there is things i call the "alma mater" factor. You are able to take a seat on the couch together with your Brittany Spaniel and find out a Brittany on the program and say, "Place, we might be available online for...if perhaps I bathed you many gave a couple of less snacks!" TV Guide Magazine: How about us proud mutt proprietors? It's discrimination! Frei: The Nation's Dog Show is really a celebration of all of the dogs within our lives. We now have not a way of knowing dogs that are not purebred - there is a standard of the items exactly they ought to seem like. If this involves the mixed-breed dog, you will find no such standards. You simply have to have one whose tail is wagging. You would like one who's happy and enables you to happy. That's all that's important. TV Guide Magazine: Well, a minimum of you replace with the slight by always hosting the annual best mutt contest around the View!Frei: Which was born from an insult from Pleasure Behar. Once she stated something rude concerning the Westminster Kennel Club, that we also host, and just how it excluded mixed breeds, so that they asked me to evaluate a mutt show. It has been very exciting. [Laughs] We make that place much more of a bitchfest than normal! Purebreds aren't for everyone, and so i always attempt to educate. People a Jack Russell on Frasier and think, "Wow, exactly what a great dog! I would like one!" Although not every dog is Eddie. We attempt to alert people about falling for that fad dogs. Despite what Paris Hilton yet others like her might think, they aren't fashion add-ons. Responsible dog breeders train people about responsible possession. That adorable four-pound ball of fluff can develop to consume your couch. You should know what you are getting before choosing the pet. TV Guide Magazine: What can surprise us about show dogs? Frei: There's a lot more for them compared to couple of minutes the thing is within the competition. They are available home around. They steal food in the counter and stay hydrated in the toilet. They are real dogs. TV Guide Magazine: Your latest book, Angel on the Leash [bowtiepress.com], is about therapy dogs and just how they're healers and messengers. Would you believe there is a soul link between dogs and humans? Frei: In my opinion that you will find there's great spiritual and emotional link with them. Dogs was once bred to complete jobs for all of us - pull a trolley, herd sheep, chase rats, guard the home. Now they are bred to become buddies. Even Labrador retrievers. Around 200 1000 Labs are registered using the AKC each year and that i would wager 90 % haven't leaped inside a pond to create back a duck. They're people from the family. They are able to touch us within the most mysterious and profound ways. TV Guide Magazine: Could it be true the film Very best in Show - a scathing satire on dog proprietors and handlers - inspired the nation's Dog Show? Frei: Totally! Jon Burns, the programming leader at NBC Sports, produced the wedding ten year ago due to that movie. Not everybody within the dog world thinks the film's funny, however i certainly do. C'mon! [Laughs] You need to admit this sport is really a target-wealthy atmosphere! Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!