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WDS AmsterdaM Comments

Netherlands. Amsterdam world dog show 2018

09-12.08.18 by Karl Donvil
WDPA CEO
WORLD
World Dog Show Amster- dog show
dam 2018 I was rather cu-
rious to find out if this was 2018
really the biggest World Dog
Show ever. I clearly remem- Official Results
ber Paris, the biggest so far, provided by
and Leipzig, the biggest so
far but from another point Dutch Kennel Club
of view. And now I read that
All photos by Amsterdam had to close the
Natalia Feofanova and Oleg Bochkov . HD. entries earlier as they had
reached the maximum that
they could welcome. Yes, it
was a big show, but no, it
wasn’t the biggest World Dog
Show ever. There were only
17,652 entries for the World
Dog Show, but...it was the
biggest concentration ever of
dogs being shown under one
roof in one weekend. Thurs-
day there was the Benelux
Winner with 7712 entries,
and during the 3 following
days of the World Dog Show
there were the Specialties,
call it the Club Shows, good
for 8294 entries. But we can
say that the number of dogs
entered on one or all of these
shows was slightly more than
the number entered for the
WDS, as for sure, the dogs
that were entered on the
Benelux Winner partici-
pated most probably on the
WDS and the specialties. So,
individually we can estimate