Attribution: Photograph: Bohemianroots, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be relaxing now that a giant Schnauzer named Monty has taken best-in-show honors at the 2025 Westminster dog show.
Adapting the keeper’s philosophy about that kind of thing, which holds that if he had been there he would have been the top dog, Kickass also goes along with the keeper in thinking that to be trotted around in a carpeted circle before millions of viewers and appearing to revel in it is the mark of a phony and the keeper wants no part of it as it too closely represents the ongoing political dog show in Washington that is being forced upon him.
Kickass, as a brainless doorstop, takes it a step further and refuses to resign his long-term job of holding the door open in case Phyllis wants to go through it on her way back to her Canadian birthplace, which she says she might do. If it happens, the keeper will be going with her as a “good boy!”
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