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On February 15, 2005, a German Shorthaired Pointer, "Ch Kan-Point's VJKAutumn Roses" (callname Carlee), took the Westminster Kennel Club DogShow's prize for Best in Show.In art and literatureRobert B. Parker's most popular mysteryseries features a Boston detective known only as Spenser who has had aseries of three solid-liver German Shorthairs, all named Pearl: one whostood with him during a bear charge in his rural youth; one given tohis girlfriend by her ex-husband; and the third Pearl, to keep companywith Spenser and his girlfriend in their late middle age.
Author Parker appears on many of the Spenser dustjackets with asolid-liver GSP bitch identical to the three incarnations of Pearl inthe series.
The logo of the American Kennel Club is a Pointer, not a German Shorthaired Pointer, though frequently mistaken for the latter.
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