Watch: Portland’s Pageant-Winning Pets Joined WW on Television Last Night

In the segment with WW's news partner KATU, three Portland Pet Pageant winners joined Arts and Culture Editor Matthew Singer to talk about this year’s pet issue.

Mr. Smoosh Smoosh, winner of our hearts. (KATU News)
By Elise Herron

Portland's pageant-winning pets made their television debut last night.

In the segment with WW's news partner, KATU News, three Portland Pet Pageant winners joined Arts and Culture Editor Matthew Singer to talk about this year's Pet Issue.

Related: In Our Annual Pet Issue, We Celebrate Portland's Occasionally Insane Love for Its Fuzzy, Feathery, Sometimes Scaly Companions

Mr. Smoosh Smoosh, the babe-tastic Tiniest Treasure winner, joined Rocco, the German Rottweiler with the Heart of Gold, and 4-year-old tortie cat Sabah, our Ultimate Supreme Pet of 2019, in the studio. It was mostly un-chaotic!

Watch the segment, which includes Sabah's escape attempt, here. And read more of this week's Pet Issue, including features on how to make it as a dog walker and what it takes to own a pet flying squirrel, here.

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