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Flynn the bichon frise is on a whirlwind victory tour of New York after winning best in show Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club.

The morning after his win, Flynn and some of his five owners appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Fox and Friends” and “The View.”

He also posed for photos for the Westminster Kennel Club at Top of the Rock, the observatory atop 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the Empire State Building and the observatory deck at One World Trade Center.

For lunch, he’ll dine on steak at Sardi’s, a restaurant in the theater district known for the hundreds of show business caricatures that decorate its walls. He’ll finish the day with an introduction to the audience before the evening performance of “Kinky Boots.”

The fluffy little dog’s victory wasn’t a big surprise to his five owners: Patrina and Bruce Odette of Denver, Lindsay Van Keuren of Parker, and Lorrie Carlton and Larry Letsche of Ann Arbor, Mich.

After all, in the competitive dog show world he was the No. 1 non-sporting breed dog and was No. 4 in the U.S. in all dog breeds.

“We knew he had a good shot,” said Van Keuren, who owns Flynn’s dam Roxy. “But at this level, every dog in that ring is deserving. It’s a huge honor.”

Flynn helped make his case by charming judge Betty-Anne Stenmark, the Associated Press reports. He held up his paw as if to shake her hand as she walked down the line to review the final seven dogs.

“He is charming and a bit of a clown,” Van Keuren said. “That’s a hallmark of this breed. He’s a happy, outgoing, cheerful dog. When dogs show that personality to the judge it can only help. That might even have been what put him over the top.”

Stenmark credited Flynn’s tail. “He kept wagging his tail and that sold himself to me,” she told the Associated Press.

Carlton equates winning best in show at Westminster to a horse winning the Triple Crown.

Bottom line, it’s a big deal even though winners don’t take home any prize money.

And the victory lets the bichon frise — French for “curly lap dog” — finish his show career聽on top.聽The 5-year-old (he’ll be 6 in March) will now retire and live in Michigan with Carlton and her husband Letsche.

Although he will be bred selectively through in Michigan, mostly he’ll just get to be a dog.

“At the end of the day, he really is someone’s animal who they love and adore,” Patrina Odette said. “He’ll be pampered and spoiled.”