He is known as Quest’s King of Landwood and he is an Alaskan Malamute. His owners are Ivan Calleja and Dennis Ciappara and he is already a European Qualifying Dog. He is now taking on the world challenge.

Eukanuba proudly announced the 41 extraordinary dogs representing their countries in the Eukanuba World Challenge 2009. These accomplished dogs will travel from nations across the globe to meet up in Long Beach, California. This unique international event will take place on 12 and 13 December, hosted by the AKC/Eukanuba National Championships at their 125th Special Anniversary Show.

These 41 international dogs will come face to face as they intensely compete for the highly prized Eukanuba World Challenge Champion 2009 title along with the $10,000 prize money to be awarded by the distinguished worldwide judge, Frank Sabella from America. There will be prizes of $3,000 and $2,000 awarded to the runner up and first runner up respectively.

The event will be filmed for broadcast; the opening flag ceremony and non geographical section judging will take place on the Saturday. The four respected FCI judges will each select three winners from their section. These 12 finalists will go through to the final scheduled to be judged in the main ring on the Sunday evening.