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Ch. Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee (December 1, 1998-September 25, 2012), also known as Stump, was a 50 lb. male Sussex Spaniel from Houston, Texas, who was named the 2009 Best In Show winner at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Stump is the first of his breed to be awarded that honor and, at 10 years old, the oldest to win the prize. ==Biography== Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee was sired by Ch. Three D Genghis Khan, and his dam was Ch. Clussexx Sprinkled With Dew; his breeders were Douglas Horn, Douglas Johnson and Dee Duffy. He was nicknamed "Stump" because he is brown, has stubby legs and resembles a tree stump.〔 Stump is owned by Cecilia Ruggles and Beth Dowd and handled by Scott Sommer, with whom he lives in Houston along with J.R., a Bichon Frise who won the Westminster Dog Show in 2001 and is also trained by Sommer. Stump won the Sporting Group at Westminster in 2004, a year that saw him accumulate 50 "best in show" wins.〔 After those victories, he was retired from competition. In January 2006 Stump was hospitalized with a serious illness, with what in retrospect turned out to be a hard-to-diagnose case of multiple bacterial infections. After a visit to Brittmoore Animal Hospital in Houston, Stump was referred to clinicians at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, and arrived there with "a body-wide infection, infection on his heart valves, fluid in his lungs, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (a blood coagulation disorder); he spent 13 days there, 12 of which were in intensive care.〔 Stump's 2009 Westminster victory was against 2500 dogs from 170 different breeds;〔it was his 51st career "best in show" win. Sommer said he expected Stump to return home and do little traveling following his victory,〔 although his owner expected some travel representing the club and participating in publicity for Angel on a Leash, a New York-based program which sends therapy dogs into hospitals.〔 According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', as of May 2009 Stump has accumulated over 440,000 miles from Continental Airlines frequent flyer program. Stump has sired three pups named Root, Forest and Myrtle.〔 Doug Johnson, Stump's co-breeder, also bred Brady, the Clumber Spaniel who won Westminster's Best in Show award in 1996. He died on September 25, 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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