Crufts
Now I’ve had time to recover from 3 days at Crufts it’s time to reflect on the show. Although we weren’t entered in the breed classes there was plenty of other activities to keep us all occupied for the 3 days and as usual you come away having missed out on things you had earmarked to do and stands to visit. I’ll look at each day in turn starting with our first day there, the Working & pastoral day.
Andrw had entered Tia in the border collie breed classes whilst we were doing Discover Dogs with Borzoi in the afternoon making it a pretty full day. For a Friday the halls were fairly busy but not overcrowded and we spent the morning sat around the Collie ring with Zorro & Star getting lots of attention as they laid around.
It was an unsuccessful time in the breed ring altough Tia went well, we were slightly worried how she might react to all the people & noise but she took it in her stride.
In the afternoon it was up to Discover dogs where Zorro & star could be ambassadors for the breed, we also had Tia in the pen with them which caused a lot of interest & amusement from people visiting the stand. At times there were people 2 or 3 deep waiting to meet the dogs and take their photos; it was strange seeing all the Japanese there when the eartquake had wreaked such havoc on their country that morning - you wondered if some of them might not have a home to go back to.
After a busy afternoon on Discover Dogs, spoilt only by the racket from the tannoy in the nearby activities ring we went off to the YKC ring for the Stakes class with Tia but again she was unsuccessful, I suppose not suprising seeing as she is still so young.
So fiinally we staggered out about 5;30 for the drive home & 2 dogs to bathe for the next day