The winner of the big prize at Madison Square Garden's prestigious Westminster Dog Show is a spniel from Houston who should be retired and who goes by the true Texas name of Stump.His formal name is Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee, but then again no one calls Racehorse Haynes by his given name either.Newsday reports: A nearly full crowd at Madison Square Garden cheered loudly when judge Sari Tietjen pointed to the new champion.
"I didn't know how old he was," [a judge] said later. "He didn't show
Texas A&M vet Katherine Snyder saved the life of Stump -- Houston's most famous dog -- about four years ago. The first time she saw the dog, he was close to death, "lethargic and depressed" and had already spent a week in a Houston clinic. "We all talked about it, if this is something we should continue or if we should go ahead and put him to sleep," Snyder tells Hair Balls. "We wanted to give him another day, and if he would've been worse, we probably would've euthanized him."Stump got bett
69ยข Gulf oysters and lobsters for under $9 a pound are among the grand-opening specials worth checking out at 99 Ranch Market, the new supermarket at I-10 and Blalock where the big Fiesta used to be. 99 Ranch Market is an Asian supermarket chain out of Los Angeles. The first store was called Tawa Supermarket; it opened in Westminster, the Little Saigon of L.A., in 1984. The chain now has 24 stores in California, two in Washington State and one in Las Vegas, along with the new Houston sto
