Utahn and her fluffy canine shock the competition on “America’s Major Dog”

Dayna Wintertime-Nolte loves to choose her dog, Theo, to competitions — just for the surprise variable. The Utah lady isn’t the one who’s surprised, her fellow competitors and the spectators are.

“It’s so significantly entertaining because I do these competitions and you see all those Belgian Malinois and German Shepherds and I wander out of the subject and I get type of a chuckle,” she explained. “And then he blows everyone’s anticipations out of the h2o.”

Theo is a 7½ 12 months previous border collie-poodle blend — a medium size dogs who’s lovable and sort of fluffy. He does not look like a puppy who’s going to zip by means of road blocks and blow people’s minds.

But he is. And Theo and Winter-Nolte compete on a really major phase on Tuesday in the 2nd year premiere of A&E’s “America’s Top Dog” (7 p.m., Dish and DirecTV 9 p.m, Comcast).

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