Fri, 12/05/2025 - 11:36am

10 Questions ...

... asked of Katherine Kasten

Profession: Attorney

Dog-sport involvement: Conformation  

Hometown: Del Mar, California

Astrological sign: Leo
 

1. Do you have any dog-show superstitions?  
No

2. TV-show guilty pleasure? 

 I only watch movies: Secretariat, Top Gun Maverick, Pirates of the Caribbean 

3. If you were president of AKC for one day, what would you do?  

Cut my salary, close offices in New York, give cost breaks to breeders of low entry breeds. 

4. Most valued material possession? 

Legally, dogs are property in Texas, so my dogs.

5. What is something no one would guess about you? 

I made a living winning wet-t-shirt contests for about a year a hundred years ago.

6. Who would you compare yourself to?
Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightly character from Pirates movies)

7. What are you “famous” for?  

Researching down rabbit holes until I have gotten back to the beginning of whatever I am researching.

8. What are your thoughts on Social Media?
 Yuck. Too much drama and lying.

9. What was more memorable, your most satisfying win or disappointing defeat? And what was it? 

Most satisfying win was a first Award of Merit at our National Specialty with my beautiful homebred Champion, Han.

10. What do you wish someone  would ask you?
How to improve the National Breed Club.

 

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