Pitcher Moving To Canada Alone Due To Dog; Top Dog At Westminster Show
O'BRIEN: Welcome back, everybody. Who is going to be top dog? The 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is back this Monday and Tuesday. For 24 years, David Frey has been the voice of the show. He joins us this morning with Malachi, a Pekinese. I had trouble last year when he was the winner saying the same thing. He was the 2012 best in show winner. He's got his handler. David Fitzpatrick is with us this morning. Two breeds are new in the show. Perla is a Russell Terrier and Et Cetera is a treeing walker coonhound.</s>DAVID FREI, HOST, WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW: We have a stand- in for Et Cetera, this morning. This is Meg and this is Callie (ph) our Russell Terrier.</s>O'BRIEN: Let's talk about the new breeds. Why were they finally allowed in when they weren't allowed in last year?</s>FREI: Well, it's up to the American Kennel Club. The breed has to demonstrate a good following in this country, a certain number of them. They have a parent club that watches out for them. But we say new breeds, they're new to Westminster, but the reality is these breeds have been around for hundreds of years.</s>O'BRIEN: What makes a dog best in show? Walk me through the Pekinese.</s>FREI: Well, Malachy, first of all, the ground he stood over you can't see it.</s>O'BRIEN: Hello, Booboo.</s>FREI: All of the dogs standing in line for best in show.</s>O'BRIEN: He's so beautiful.</s>FREI: They're great specimens but they have to have a certain charisma, personality and showmanship.</s>O'BRIEN: So it's all about personality and less than beauty.</s>DAVID FITZPATRICK, SHOW DOG HANDLER: He has to conform to the standard and have a great personality.</s>O'BRIEN: What has he done in the years since the big win?</s>FITZPATRICK: He's had a lot of events to attend. He hasn't competed since then, he's been retired. He mostly enjoyed life at home. We live in the country and likes being a country dog.</s>O'BRIEN: He is so beautiful, you're so sweet. I see why you're the big winner for last year. Let's talk about the chances for these two guys.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They're new breeds so to have them and have everybody see them on the dog show and television and all of the things we do with live streaming video and on our Facebook page and things like that, you get to see these wonderful dogs.</s>O'BRIEN: They're so beautiful and also so calm. You know, I'm used to dogs that are a little yippier. Is that how they're measured as well?</s>FREI: Each breed has to have a personality appropriate for the breed and the job they're bred to do. Usually you see these dogs running crazy through the field chasing a fox. And the same thing with Meg, you see her chasing raccoons up a tree for hunters.</s>O'BRIEN: Is it like the Oscars, where people send copies of the movie and they really advertise. Are you calling people saying my dog this year, vote for me?</s>FREI: When we're proud of our wins we advertise and share that. David didn't do a lot of advertising.</s>O'BRIEN: Are you doing that for your dog?</s>FITZPATRICK: Callie has her own Facebook page.</s>O'BRIEN: She does? She can type?I'm so impressed.</s>FRIE: It's a whole new world.</s>FITZPATRICK: She's also excited to meet you, also from Long Island.</s>O'BRIEN: Whereabouts in Long Island are you from?</s>FITZPATRICK: From Baldwin.</s>O'BRIEN: From Baldwin, my God.</s>O'BRIEN: What are you trying to do to get your dog more noticed that people vote for your dog, and then you can be the big winner?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Putting people on Facebook, enjoy her going to the events, the shows.</s>O'BRIEN: Are you as anxious? Like are you nervous as the dogs? They don't look nervous at all. You're more nervous.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It only comes down to one person, one person at three different levels, first at the breed level, 2,721 dogs and 187 different breeds, seven different groups, you win in your group, you're one of seven group winners, the best in show judge picks the winner.</s>O'BRIEN: I'm nervous and excited for you. Thanks for bringing your beautiful dogs with you. Appreciate it. We have to take a short break. The best in show crowned Tuesday live February 12th 8:00 p.m. on "USA Network." Ahead for us this morning, about to be buried in snow, an epic winter storm about to wallop the northeast, we're going to update you on that. Plus a manhunt continues for a former cop who reportedly declared war on the Los Angeles Police Department. We'll talk to a college friend of the suspected killer straight ahead.