{"id":273826,"date":"2026-08-28T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273826\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:22:16","slug":"pittsburgh-labrador-retriever-falls-short-of-the-top-dog-in-2026-tsa-cutest-canine-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273826\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh labrador retriever falls short of the top dog in 2026 TSA Cutest Canine Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Washington, D.C.) Epic, a four-year-old labrador retriever that works at the Pittsburgh International\u00a0Airport\u00a0was not the top dog in the TSA\u2019s 2026 Cutest Canine Contest. <\/p>\n<p>The winner was announced yesterday, which was ironically National Dog Day. <\/p>\n<p>Epic was one of three other finalists to\u00a0lose to the winner,\u00a0Bolt, who is a German shorthaired pointer who works at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even though Epic did not win the TSA\u2019s 2026 Cutest Canine Contest, a labrador retriever named Steeler who works at the Pittsburgh International Airport won the 2025 TSA Cutest Canine Contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Washington, D.C.)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-273826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}