Uno First Beagle Ever To Win Best in Show Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show February 12, 2008

 Uno is the first beagle to win Best In Show.  Aaron Wilkerson, Uno’s 29-year-old handler,  has been working with Uno since he was 6 months old.  Now, said Wilkerson, Uno can do as he pleases, but the champion will probably be content to return home  to Columbia, S.C.. and play with his rubber duck.

He was the first one to be celebrated as a champion by President George W. Bush in the White House Rose Garden in May, and still wears the red, white and blue collar that Laura Bush gave him  He has thrown out — OK, he fetched — the first pitch before major league games at Busch Stadium in St. Louis and Miller Park in Milwaukee.

Nov 27 2008 Today, Uno will be aboard the “Peanuts” float, a rendition of Snoopy’s doghouse, at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Uno will be joined on the float by David Frei, the Westminster club’s director of communications and an analyst on the show’s USA telecasts. Frei plays two other roles: Uno’s squire to nearly all his appearances, locally and nationally, and wrangler/maitre d’ at his Manhattan apartment

For the parade, Uno will be awakened at 6:15 a.m. He will drink water but eat nothing except for treats on the float until lunch. Frei will walk his rambunctious quartet through his neighborhood, where Uno has become a regular at outdoor cafes. Soon after, Uno and Frei will ride in a car sent by Macy’s to the parade staging area at 77th Street and Central Park West.  (News NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth Texas Ben Walker Sunday, Feb 9, 2014)

It wasn’t just fun and games for Uno, though. Uno went on to do charity work, as well. “Uno became a registered Angel On a Leash  therapy dog, and we would visit Ronald McDonald houses all over the country,” says Frei.

The Westminster Kennel Club has a remarkable charity called Angel On a Leash.  There goal is to create the best therapy dog programs in health care facilities and other settings across the country.  At the end of 2008 Angel teams were visiting nine prestigious health care facilities accoss the United States.

The Uno Bobble Head Doll will be sold this week(Feb 10, 11, 2014) at the 138th Westminster show and online by Angel On A Leash, a charity headed by Frei that creates and runs therapy dog programs.

Get yours at the Angel On A Leash Both(collar and Uno bobblehead for  $25

Angel On A Leash has agreements with two other therapy dog organizations; Mid South Therapy Dogs of Memphis (MSTD) and Intermountain Therapy Animals of  Salt Lake City (ITA). MSTD is a Delta Society affiliate that sends teams to approximately 40 facilities in the Greater Memphis area. ITA has developed a successful and widely-implemented animal-assisted therapy program called Reading Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) and this agreement grants ANGEL(Westminster Kennel Club Charity) the right to implement R.E.A.D. programs.

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