No. 1 in Peoria

And elsewhere.

Uno, the soon-to-be 3-year-old beagle who won best in show at the 2008 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, paid a visit to a 13-year-old (in dog years) Peoria woman.

Rosemary Kramm's home health nurse arranged the visit for the senior citizen because she thought the pooch, shown above after winning the title, would cheer her up.

It worked.

"Oh, I can't believe it!" Kramm said repeatedly, as she patted and stroked the dog. "I can die now. I can leave this planet."

Maybe it worked a little too well.

Read the story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Photo credit: Mary Bloom