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What happens when you leave me to my own devices with a mascot and a camera

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When Susi from DogKnobIt and I asked if we could dogsit the Eukanuba VP of Canine Communications, Pawl Griffin, for a bit at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, I’m not sure what they were thinking when they agreed. I’m glad they did, though. Because we had a ton of fun.

He’s a petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, but we decided to see what would happen when we asked breeders of other types of dogs for grooming advice. (For the record, that brilliant idea was Susi’s. I thought we should take him to a tattoo parlor.) So we visited a sheepdog, an Afghan, a Yorkie, a hairless terrier, and a few others. Here’s the result:

I realized after I posted the video that his name is spelled “Griffin”, but it took so dang long to upload the thing I didn’t have the heart to redo it and set myself back another hour and a half. So please forgive me the typo.

Upon seeing the video, my husband couldn’t restrain himself from commenting on how much he wished we had a boom mike. A boom mike. Well, this is what happens when you’re doing the iReporter guerilla stuff with a Flipcam. Think of it as the authentic dog show cacophanous experience.

So even if you think it’s terrible, or crummy, or even just bleh, lie to me and say you loved it. I’m fragile. Stick around for the outtakes at the end- I think they’re my favorite part. 😀

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  6. The only thing more fun than watching this video was doing it with you, Jessica. The making of it was not without consequences. Since coming home, I’ve been trying to make the Pulik look like a PBGV. Gulp.

  7. Fun video. Of course I’m partial to the Yorkie who was adorable. Any details on her? Name, age, did she give you kisses?

    • Since we only had Griffin for an hour we kind of flew through the booths, so unfortunately I didn’t get too much time to chat. The Yorkie was so sweet, though, letting me hold her the whole time. She was a snuggler more than a smoocher but I do have another video to do on the “Smoochers of Meet the Breeds.” 😀

    • Tina will confirm- we were a well-oiled machine, with our marks pre-briefed and everything. We worked that dog for the full hour. He’s a trooper you got there!

  10. Just finally got a moment to catch – I absolutely love the snood – looks like a little bubushka!! Hope you had a merry Christmas, Dr. V!

  11. Hee…this was great…I LOVE how each person wanted to make Griffin look like whatever breed they were showing…priceless!!

    Hey, don’t they make some kind of wireless, extraneous sound-cancelling thing-a-ma-jig mike? A boom mike would be a bit hard to handle among the doggies, it seems :)! No matter, it was fun :)!