August 8, 2012
Siblings Connor and Gillien Tweddle of Falls Church display the ribbons they won at the Fairfax County 4-H Fair Dog Show Costume Competition on Aug. 4. Participants were tasked with learning about their dog’s breed, making a costume that represented some element of the history of the dog’s breed and describing their costumes to a judge. Connor Tweddle’s dog Sally is a Labrador Retriever, used by many law enforcement agencies for bomb detection (or Explosive Ordinance Detection), and as Connor says, “She’s ‘da Bomb!” Gillien Tweddle’s dog Winnie is dressed as the popular A. A. Milne bear Winnie the Pooh. The origin of her pit bull mix’s breed was used for many hundreds of years to hunt in a form of dog fighting called “bear-baiting” where the dog was pitted against a bull or bear.
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