Actor and dog show host john o’hurley answers 11 quick questions | members only access

     Actor John O’Hurley, perhaps best known as Mr. Peterman on the ’90s sitcom _Seinfeld_, has gone to the dogs. O’Hurley, 67, has been host of _The National Dog Show,_ a Thanksgiving Day

tradition [Nov. 25, 12 p.m., NBC] since 2002 and says he’s “a better man with a dog in my lap.” Here he talks a lot about dogs and a little about that other show — the one famously about

nothing on which he made a lasting impression. _THE NATIONAL DOG SHOW_ STILL DRAWS A RATINGS CROWD. EXPLAIN, PLEASE. Whether you’re 4 or 94, everybody loves to watch the dogs and their

little faces. When they come in and do the close-ups, I defy anyone to change the channel on the remote. WHAT’S NEW IN DOGS THIS YEAR? The Biewer Terrier [pronounced beaver like the little

dam-building animal]. It’s kind of a very small Yorkie. When we did the photo shoot for the promotion for the 20th anniversary, I had one of them there and that was my dog for the day. An

absolute sweetie. John O'Hurley played the eccentric J. Peterman on 'Seinfeld' from 1995-1998. Joseph Delvalle/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images

DO YOU HAVE PERSONAL FAVORITE DOG SHOW BREEDS? I love the Irish Setter. I always joke that it reminds me of the redhead that just walked into the cocktail party and all the heads turn. It’s

just an absolutely remarkable show dog. But would I want one? Nah, it would be kind of out of my lifestyle. I have rooted for it every year. One year the Irish Setter actually won best in

show and I really thought that my life was pretty complete at that time. TELL US ABOUT YOUR FIRST DOG Taffy was my first dog, a little dachshund. In kindergarten/first grade [in Natick,

Massachusetts], Taffy would wait for me when I came home from school and then the two of us would go down to what I would refer to as my secret hiding place, which was the little swamp down

at the end of the street. I would walk around the swamp every day with my net and Taffy. I would turn over every rock. Together we would look for anything that was living, a toad or a snail

or a fish that we could find. What’s your current dog situation? We have two rescues: Mia, who we just got, and Charlotte, a little terrier mix; and a purebred Havanese named Lucy. Mia’s

only about 5 pounds; a little Yorkie, terrier and maybe Jack Russell. I mean she bounces around like nobody’s business. It certainly would be indicative of that breed. DOGS IN BED WITH YOU?

OR YUCK, NO, NEVER? Oh yeah. It’s a lovefest and you never know whether it’s our son’s bed or our bed. It’s any port in the storm.