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CONTENTS AND ADVERTISING INDEX www.ourdogs.co.uk Contents: Welcome to Crufts 2008 ....................................................2 News ..........................................................................4 An international mix by Sally Pointon ....................................6 Peter Purves interview...Louise Warburton asks the questions ......8 Crufts order of judging....................................................10 Hidden gems at Crufts auction ..........................................12 You are here! how to find your way around ..........................14 Meet the judges ............................................................16 Scrapbook ..................................................................18 Crufts Roll of Honour ......................................................22 Behind the lens: meet the people behind the pictures ..............26 Obedience scoresheets....................................................28 Not a bad year for dogs...by Nick Mays ................................30 TRADE ADVERTISERS: Agria International Insurance ..........................Outside Back Cover Animal Care College ..........................................................24 Animal Health Co ..............................................................35 Animalhouse Grooming Products ............................................36 Animals Asia Foundation......................................................24 Apdt ..............................................................................5 Aromesse ........................................................................3 Barjo ............................................................................24 Boss ..............................................................................37 Bronte Glen ....................................................................39 Burns Pet Nutrition ............................................................36 Continental Airlines Cargo ....................................................5 Cromessol ........................................................................3 Dalsetter Rosettes ............................................................27 Delamere Dairy ................................................................25 Dezynadog ......................................................................13 Diamond Dogs....................................................................1 Dogmatic ........................................................................25 Doreen Paige ..................................................................38 Dorwest ........................................................................27 Essex Dog Display - All About Dogs ..........................................3 Eukanuba ........................................................................9 Feelwells........................................................................29 Fish 4..............................................................................5 Fit Fur Life Treadmills ........................................................15 Footwear Country ............................................................32 Gro-Well ........................................................................29 Hearing Dogs For Deaf People ................................................3 Hills Pet Nutrition ..............................................................7 Hub International..............................................................39 Intercounty Truck & Van ......................................................39 Johnsons ........................................................................27 Land For Sale ..................................................................24 Lintran ..........................................................................27 Mayfield Gallery ................................................................5 Meriden Animal Health ........................................................5 Molar ............................................................................33 Our Dogs Online Classifieds Crufts Offer ..................................42 Overhill Kennels ..............................................................23 Peakdale Sculptures ..........................................................27 Petcetera Etc ..................................................................17 Poodle Standard Dorris ......................................................11 Pro-Choice ......................................................................33 Purina ..........................................................................19 Rabbles..........................................................................24 Red Cape ........................................................................34 Red Mills @ Crufts ............................................................21 Robert Harrop Designs ........................................................38 Royal Canin ..................................................Inside Back Cover Samsung Electronics ......................................Inside Front Cover Simpsons..................................................................40 & 41 Spot On Jewellery ..............................................................1 Tyrella Rosettes ................................................................38 Wafcol ..........................................................................34 Weanafeeda ....................................................................36 Woof Wash Grooming Saloon ..................................................1 BREED ADVERTISERS: Akita / Japanese Akita Inu - Clark ..........................................44 Akita - Mcclean ................................................................43 Alaskan Malamute - Ellis......................................................45 American Hairless Terrier - Medhurst ......................................48 Australian Cattle Dogs - Digby ..............................................46 Australian Shepherd - Challenger ..........................................46 Australian Shepherd Dog - Turner ..........................................46 Australian Silky Terrier - Mackrell ..........................................46 Australian Silky Terrier - Mackrell, Leino & Dowty ......................47 Australian Terrier - Mccourt..................................................47 Basset Fauve De Bretagne - Howard ........................................46 Basset Fauve De Bretagne - Turton ........................................47 Basset Hound - Newman ......................................................46 Beagle - Lewis..................................................................49 Bearded Collie - Evans ........................................................49 Bearded Collie - Fox ..........................................................49 Bearded Collie - Ward ........................................................50 Bedlington Terrier - Davies ..................................................51 Belgian Shepherd - Gaffey ..................................................50 Belgian Shepherd - Jellicoe ..................................................50 Belgian Shepherd Dog (Malinois) - Lawless ................................49 Bichon Frise - Johns ..........................................................50 Bolognese - Dowty, Seeberger, Mackrell, Skarhammar & Begg ........53 Bolognese - Stanley ..........................................................56 Border Collie - Gregory ......................................................56 Border Collie - Barette ......................................................52 Boston Terrier - Costello......................................................52 Brittany - Cutler ..............................................................52 Bull Terrier (Miniature) - Wylie ..............................................58 Collie (Rough) - Grainger ..............................................54 & 55 Dalmatian - Harrison-Stratford ..............................................52 Dalmatian - Stocks ............................................................52 Deerhound - Owen & Brodie ................................................56 Dobermann - Cox ..............................................................58 German Shorthaired Pointer - Rose ........................................52 German Spitz Klein - Wright ................................................57 German Wirehaired Pointer - Marshall ....................................52 Crufts Classic 2008 Glen Of Imaal Terrier - George ..............................................60 Glen Of Imaal Terrier - Harley ..............................................60 Glen Of Imaal Terrier - Rogers ..............................................52 Great Dane - Patterson ......................................................59 Great Dane - Tomlin ..........................................................59 Griffon Bruxellois - Price ....................................................66 Hungarian Puli - Giles ........................................................62 Hungarian Puli - Williams ....................................................61 Hungarian Vizsla - Bergin ....................................................63 Italian Spinone - Broadley ....................................................66 Japanese Spitz - Bliss & Bridport............................................66 King Charles Spaniel - East ..................................................66 Kooikerhondje - Kennedy ....................................................66 Kooikerhondje Swinburn ....................................................66 Lancashire Heeler - Mckenna ................................................64 Lancashire Heeler - Swann ..................................................65 Leonberger - Dabell ..........................................................66 Lhasa Apso - Luscott ..........................................................59 Lowchen - Scarth & Gaunt ..................................................58 Maltese - Jackson..............................................................68 Maltese - Lees..................................................................66 Manchester Terrier - Norris ..................................................74 Mastiff - Proudfoot ............................................................74 Miniature Pinscher - Spence ................................................74 Miniature Pinscher - Wilkinson ..............................................39 Norwegian Elkhound - Cree ..................................................74 Papillon - Mosing & Payett (Co-Owner Ms Chie Ejima) ......Front Cover Papillon - Davidson-Poston ..................................................74 Papillon - Stanbury ............................................................74 Pekingese - Shaw & Mee ......................................................67 Pomeranian - Ogilvie ..........................................................70 Poodle Standard - Dennison ..................................................74 Poodle Standard - Dorris......................................................11 Pug - Baines ....................................................................74 Pug - Lewis ....................................................................74 Pyrenean Mountain Dog - Sandstrom ......................................69 Pyrenean Sheepdog - Rogerson & Morley ..................................78 Retriever Flat Coat - Laird ..................................................74 Retriever Golden - Jackson-Haines ........................................76 Retriever Golden - Kirkman ..................................................71 Retriever Golden - Sillence ..................................................76 Retriever Golden - Whelan ..................................................76 Retriever Labrador - Charlton ..............................................76 Retriever Labrador - Evans ..................................................76 Rhodesian Ridgebacks - Parke ..............................................70 Rottweiler - Poole ............................................................71 Samoyed - Duffus ............................................................76 Samoyed - Newhouse ........................................................32 Sealyham Terrier - Frost ....................................................78 Setter Irish - Cox ..............................................................76 Setter Irish / Great Swiss Mountain Dog / Ret Golden - Reynaud ......72 Setter Irish / Great Swiss Mountain Dog / Ret Golden - Reynaud ......73 Setter, Irish Red & White - Wade ............................................80 Shar Pei - Warrington ........................................................80 Shih Tzu - Hitt..................................................................78 Siberian Husky - Bowenny & Evans..........................................80 Spaniel American Cocker - Boardman ......................................75 Spaniel Clumber - Kirkman ..................................................80 Spaniel Cocker - Webster ....................................................80 Spaniel Sussex - Bennett ....................................................80 Spaniel Welsh Springer - Dodds..............................................80 Swedish Vallhund - Gilliland ................................................77 Tibetan Mastiff - Stratford ..................................................78 Tibetan Spaniel - Short ......................................................80 Tibetan Terrier - Shaw ........................................................79 Weimaraner - Hollings ........................................................80 Welsh Corgi (Pembroke) - Davies............................................80 Whippet - 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E xc l u s i v e p e t accessories OD European sales and head office: Diamond Dogs (UK) Ltd, PO Box 112, 9100 AC, Dokkum, The Netherlands T: +31 511 408534 F: +31 511 408535 E: [email protected] www.diamonddogs.co.uk 1 2 Welcome to Crufts 2008! www.ourdogs.co.uk CRUFTS CLASSIC 2008 Entry just short of world record! C RUFTS HAS done it again! With even more entries than in 2007, Crufts has secured its place, yet again, as the world’s largest dog show but it still has not broken the record held by the centenary show of 1991. Photo by William Moores ● The beauti ful Ti betan Terri er, John S haw and Nei l S mi th’s Ch / US Ch Araki Fabul ous Wi l l y, who won the coveted Best i n show ti tl e at Crufts 2007 under judge Mrs Zena Thorn-Andrews Crufts embark on new DVD launch S T A R T I N G O N 6th March 2008, Crufts is undoubtedly the world’s largest dog show, and last year saw the establishment launch its’ first DVD highlights package, which will again be repeated following the 2008 event. Recognised as the largest and most prestigious dog show in the world, Crufts is an international event, attracting over 150,000 visitors and 25,000 dogs annually. Crufts: The Ultimate Collection DVD will be available at the show in March at a special event price of £9.99 (RRP: £19.99) and includes highlights from the past three years action. The three disc set features the highlights of the Group Judging and Best in Show at the 2005, 2006, and 2007 events, providing dog lovers the chance to relive the dog show- International flavour just adds to the mix! COUNTRY Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hong Kong Hungary Ireland Italy Japan Latvia Luxembourg Malta Mexico Monaco Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand USA TOTAL DOGS TOTAL COUNTRIES Number of Entries 2007 2006 1 1 12 10 70 65 1 1 1 1 2 9 6 45 25 6 3 45 32 103 101 73 63 1 1 1 3 10 15 150 153 70 67 5 1 4 6 5 3 1 130 122 5 2 13 27 8 6 5 9 43 15 2 2 1 20 29 68 79 17 14 1 29 34 951 902 32 32 2005 5 60 1 2004 8 48 - 2003 1 50 - 1 5 28 21 43 30 82 65 2 2 5 128 56 2 2 1 117 26 6 3 1 20 40 14 21 723 26 16 63 50 1 1 1 132 36 3 2 2 85 18 9 24 46 17 36 644 22 See page 6 for Sally Pointon’s look at what we can expect this year 11 57 32 1 1 104 36 2 1 76 18 4 15 60 7 10 543 20 ing action from each event. With Crufts attracting a global audience that is unrivalled by any similar event, there is clearly a market for the DVD, and with this inaugural release containing nearly four hours of action, the set certainly offers value for money. Dog lovers can watch as entrants compete to achieve the coveted title of ‘Best in Show’, as thousands of dogs go head to head to be judged by experts determining who should be crowned champion. The DVD set rounds up all of the action from the Group Judging and Best in Show where the very top dogs from the show compete. Along with a selection of interviews with key personalities from the dog exhibiting world, viewers are treated to all of the action that secured the top accolade achieved by Tibetan Terrier, Araki Fabulous Willy in 2007, Australian Shepherd Caitland Isle Take A Chance in 2006, and Norfolk Terrier Cracknor Cause Celebre in 2005, as well as all of the highlights from the rest of the shows. Attendees of the show will also have the chance to pre-order the DVD for Crufts 2008, which is a service that the Kennel Club has never offered before. Dog-lovers ordering early will be the first to receive the DVD, which will be available in May. Crufts will welcome 22,964 dogs competing for the prestigious title of Best in Show; over 600 more than last year. Crufts 2008 has narrowly missed breaking the show’s all-time record by just 27 dogs! The entry for March’s show is 25546 from 22964 dogs. Crufts achieved its best ever entry figure during its centenary year in 1991 when the event moved to the NEC in Birmingham for the first time. Overseas entries have also increased dramatically; Crufts 2008 will see 1,177 dogs from overseas take to the ring to compete, an increase of more than 200 on 2007. Crufts has always attracted a huge number of competitors and visitors alike, and the event just keeps on growing. Recent puppy registration figures released by the Kennel Club highlighted the worryingly low numbers of certain British and Irish breeds. Crufts entry figures show that only 6% of the dogs attending the event are from those 23 breeds listed as being vulnerable. The worry for the Kennel Club is that the breeds have lost popularity to the point that they are being forgotten by puppy buyers and can therefore sometimes be overlooked when someone is thinking of getting a new dog, even though so many of them would make great pets. Crufts provides an ideal opportunity to get to know breeds such as the Dandie Dinmont Terrier, the Smooth Collie and the Irish Red and White Setter and many others. Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club Secretary, said “Crufts has yet again surpassed all expectations. This event just keeps getting bigger and bigger and with over 150,000 visitors attending last year, we are preparing for another record breaking show! The low numbers of vulnerable breeds is, sadly, expected. In the registration figures released earlier this month we saw a huge decline in some native British and Irish breeds. We hope that an occasion as big as Crufts will help highlight just how important it is to ensure we don’t lose these beautiful breeds.” Crufts has changed significantly over the years. Back in 1991 it was moved to the NEC in Birmingham due to its overwhelming popularity. Last year’s show saw the Arena programme introduced, allowing the Kennel Club to showcase many different aspects of dog ownership and provide an even bigger platform for dogs, demonstrating all they have to offer. The individual breed entries are shown below preceded by the number of dogs. Toy group Affenpinscher 80 86; Australian Silky Terrier 29 30; Bichon Frise 131 136; Bolognese 38 39; Cavalier King Charles Spaniel 374 402; Chihuahua (Longcoat) 194 214; Chihuahua (Smoothcoat) 136 150; Chinese Crested 144 156; Coton de Tulear 22 26; English Toy Terrier (Black & Tan) 50 52; Griffon Bruxellois 89 95; Havanese 65 66; Italian Greyhound 103 107; Japanese Chin 125 140; King Charles Spaniel 116 126; Lowchen (Little Lion Dog) 60 60; Maltese 51 53; Miniature Pinscher 88 95; Papillon 251 276; Pekingese 117 123; Pomeranian 149 155; Pug 264 279; Yorkshire Terrier 129 138. Utility group Akita 137 142; Boston Terrier 93 93; Bulldog 256 269; Canaan Dog 15 16; Chow Chow 116 126; Dalmatian 221 243; French Bulldog 121 128; German Spitz (Klein) 82 93; German Spitz (Mittel) 90 10; Japanese Akita Inu 19 20; Japanese Shiba Inu 80 86; Japanese Spitz 70 81; Keeshond 99 103; Lhasa Apso 200 212; Miniature Schnauzer 177 189; Poodle (Miniature) 113 120; Poodle (Standard) 184 196; Poodle (Toy) 121 124; Schipperke 56 61; Schnauzer 84 91; Shar Pei 94 95; Shih Tzu 231 241; Tibetan Spaniel 174 180; Tibetan Terrier 201 217. PAT Dogs celebrate 25th anniversary at Crufts show FOR THE last 25 years Pets As Therapy has been bringing comfort, companionship and therapy into the lives of thousands of patients. Over 100,000 patients benefit every single week from the Pets As Therapy charity and 3,500 registered PAT dogs visit 6,678 establishments throughout the U.K. Registered PAT dogs and PAT cats work in Hospitals, Hospices, Nursing Homes, Day Care Centres, Special Needs Schools, Oncology Units, Stroke Rehabilitation also with Children suffering from debilitating animal phobias and people with Clinical Depression. Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Pets As Therapy at Crufts 2008 where many PAT dogs will be in attendance. Watch Pets As Therapy in action in the short film on the website www.petsastherapy.org/media Pets As Therapy stand number 176 in Hall 4 Gundog group Brittany 55 64; English Setter 213 223; German Longhaired Pointer 18 19; German Shorthaired Pointer 245 281; German Wirehaired Pointer 88 104; Gordon Setter 171 187; Hungarian Vizsla 202 243; Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla 67 81; Irish Red And White Setter 96 108; Irish Setter 375 430; Italian Spinone 176 204; Kooikerhondje 17 24; Large Munsterlander 84 95; Pointer 241 267; Retriever (Chesapeake Bay) 57 75; Retriever (Curly Coated) 87 103; Retriever (Flat Coated) 384 458; Retriever (Golden) 534 628; Retriever (Labrador) 507 559; Retriever (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling) 99 120; Spaniel (American Cocker) 128 140; Spaniel (Clumber) 96 112; Spaniel (Cocker) 397 441; Spaniel (English Springer) 162 191; Spaniel (Field) 58 67; Spaniel (Irish Water) 48 53; Spaniel (Sussex) 54 64; Spaniel (Welsh Springer) 199 232; Weimaraner 212 248; Obedience dogs 23 Gamekeepers’ classes 199 322. Working group Alaskan Malamute 114 135; Bernese Mountain Dog 185 210; Bouvier Des Flandres 66 70; Boxer 276 288; Bullmastiff 168 178; Canadian Eskimo Dog 7 7; Dobermann 306 336; German Pinscher 17 18; Giant Schnauzer 66 70; Great Dane 224 245; Greenland Dog 4 4; Hovawart 38 43; Leonberger 161 186; Mastiff 109 119; Neapolitan Mastiff 37 38; Newfoundland 246 262; Portuguese Water Dog 48 50; Rottweiler 351 405; Russian Black Terrier 58 71; St Bernard 80 82; Siberian Husky 245 262; Tibetan Mastiff 54 58. Pastoral group Anatolian Shepherd Dog 21 21; Australian Cattle Dog 41 54; Australian Shepherd 122 141; Bearded Collie 321 375; Belgian Shepherd Dog (Groenendael) 73 84; Belgian Shepherd Dog (Laekenois) 6 7; Belgian Shepherd Dog (Malinois) 34 41; Belgian Shepherd Dog (Tervueren) 108 136; Border Collie 422 479; Briard 72 82; Collie (Rough) 272 330; Collie (Smooth) 57 67; Estrela Mountain Dog 38 41; Finnish Lapphund 59 80; German Shepherd Dog (Alsatian) 132 146; Hungarian Kuvasz 1 1; Hungarian Puli 51 57; Komondor 10 11; Lancashire Heeler 89 100; Maremma Sheepdog 10 11; Norwegian Buhund 48 53; Old English Sheepdog 159 181; Polish Lowland Sheepdog 57 64; Pyrenean Mountain Dog 121 145; Pyrenean Sheepdog 15 18; Samoyed 162 183; Shetland Sheepdog 320 365; Swedish Vallhund 54 54; Welsh Corgi (Cardigan) 75 84; Welsh Corgi (Pembroke) 171 194; Obedience bitches 31. Terrier group Airedale T 94 99; Australian T 38 38; Bedlington T 99 103; Border T 256 284; Bull T 84 87; Bull T (Min) 52 57; Cairn T 172 182; Cesky T 54 57; Dandie Dinmont T 79 82; Fox T (Smooth) 78 82; Fox T (Wire) 64 66; Glen Of Imaal T 35 37; Irish T 78 88; Kerry Blue T 53 56; Lakeland T 39 43; Manchester T 66 79; Norfolk T 91 98; Norwich T 46 49; Parson Russell T 122 127; Scottish T 105 114; Sealyham T 44 45; Skye T 69 75; Soft Coated Wheaten T 152 164; Staffordshire Bull T 389 437; Welsh T 47 53; WHWT 160 167. Hound group Afghan Hound 309 323; Basenji 70 74; Basset Fauve De Bretagne 42 52; Basset Griffon Vendeen (Grand) 45 49; Basset Griffon Vendeen (Petit) 75 78; Basset Hound 146 153; Beagle 255 333; Bloodhound 40 41; Borzoi 138 152; Dachshund (Long-Haired) 88 94; Dachshund (Min Long-Haired) 151 162; Dachshund (Smooth-Haired) 94 99; Dachshund (Min Smooth-Haired) 133 143; Dachshund (Wire-Haired) 95 100; Dachshund (Min Wire-Haired) 128 139; Deerhound 116 121; Finnish Spitz 52 54; Foxhound 9 9; Greyhound 82 95; Hamiltonstovare 26 27; Ibizan Hound 17 18; Irish Wolfhound 146 153; Norwegian Elkhound 79 95; Otterhound 26 26; Pharaoh Hound 33 36; Rhodesian Ridgeback 259 282; Saluki 149 173; Sloughi 17 20; Whippet 401 472. Ten things you need to know ab out OUR DOGS online OUR DOGS has been onl i ne for ei ght years ALL our pages can be read i n di gi tal format We have onl i ne search faci l i ti es. Al l our show reports are archi ved onl i ne Al l our breed notes go back to 2002 There are 3, 940 i nbound l i nks to OUR DOGS web si te Nearl y 25, 000 peopl e recei ve our FREE e-mai l newsl etter each week The Cl assi fi eds and Breeder Di rectory are the most popul ar pages OUR DOGS has over 10, 000 pages i n i ts free secti on al one In January 2008 nearl y 140, 000 peopl e vi si ted the homepage www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 3 Crufts broadcast on schedule to fetch new audience T 4 Crufts Classic 2008 HE BBC has announced changes to its usual BBC2 programming schedule for Crufts 2008. In an effort to attract a broader audience, the BBC is introducing a new Sunday teatime programme during the show, which will feature more coverage of disciplines like Agility and Flyball. The schedule for the Crufts programmes to be broadcast on BBC2 is as follows: Thursday 6th March 20:00 - 21:00 Interactive programme 21:00 - 22:00 Friday 7th March 20:00 - 21:00 Interactive programme 21:00 - 22:00 Saturday 8th March 20:00 - 21:00 Interactive programme 21:00 - 22:00 Sunday 9th March 17:00 - 18:00 - NEW 19:00 - 21:00 Best in Show Interactive programme 21:00 - 22:00 The schedule does not include a preview programme as in previous years; replacing it with a new hour long show on Sunday evening during the event, which will be targeted as family-friendly, teatime entertainment. This new show will be presented by Ben Fogle and Matt Baker, with Clare Balding leading the main coverage later that evening. This new programme will feature the best of the other disciplines show- Get into Crufts on-line www.crufts.org.uk Take a look at what makes Crufts the world’s greatest dog show, by visiting the new website www.crufts.org.uk. Crufts has always been big, but this year, from the 6th – 9th March at the NEC in Birmingham, Crufts will be bursting at the seams! There is so much to see and experience at Crufts, which is organised by the Kennel Club and supported by Pedigree, and the website offers a fantastic up to the minute source of information for visitors and exhibitors, who can use it to plan their trip more easily, and make the most of their Crufts experience. The site includes information on how to buy tickets, travel and show discounts, what’s on, how to get there and a lot more besides, including a gallery to watch footage from previous years. Crufts will be making use of the NEC Arena again this year, following the success of its expansion in 2007. It will not only hold the Best in Show competition, but also showcase a fantastic new dog display programme with seating for 6,000 people. And yes there are still Best in Show tickets available from the NEC, but hurry as there is only a limited number left! So surf the Crufts website and buy your tickets early for both show entry and travel discounts; check out the great travel offers with National Express. National Express has offered special coach services direct to Crufts for several years now, but this year it is going one step further by introducing a dual scheme whereby you can book your travel and entry ticket to the show at the same time. And tune in via the website to Crufts FM, the radio channel dedicated to broadcasting Crufts around the world. Crufts FM can also be heard on frequency 106.8fm from within the NEC and a five mile radius around the event for the entire show. The website allows visitors to register for all the latest Crufts news; for further information, please visit www.crufts.org.uk and be part of the world’s greatest dog show.There is a selection of FAQs about Crufts, from the most straightforward questions to the more complex, and if you need to get in touch, then contact details are also listed.The Kennel Club’s Health and Information Manager, Bill Lambert is running an online blog on the website, documenting his experiences of the event from a judge’s perspective, alongside Sue Sampson, Kennel Club Roadshow Manager.They will be joined at the event by the Kennel Club’s Registered Societies Manager, Caroline Hallett, giving you an update from the heart of the world’s greatest dog show! www.ourdogs.co.uk cased at Crufts 2008 and will focus on Agility, Heelwork to Music, Flyball and Obedience, as well as highlights from theYoung Kennel Club ring. In addition to the action, Ben and Matt will be hosting an interactive element live in Hall 3 of the NEC, which will have experts on hand to answer questions posed by visitors to the show and users of the BBC website. This year’s BBC team will be led by Clare Balding, ably assisted by Ben Fogle, Matt Baker, Peter Purves, Jessica Holm, Frank Kane and Wayne Cavanaugh. In the run up to the show, Crufts will also be featured on the BBC One’s ‘The One Show’ on Wednesday 5th March.This programme will include a live link up with Clare Balding at the NEC during the final build up. Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club Secretary said,“We are proud of how popular Crufts is with the BBC audience, with over 14million viewers watching the programme over the course of the show last year. “The schedule will provide a wonderful showcase for disciplines such as Agility, Flyball, Heelwork to Music, Obedience and the Young Kennel Club, alongside the ever-popular coverage of breed showing, and we hope that it will appeal to both old and new viewers alike.We are also looking forward to spreading the Crufts message out yet further through the highly acclaimed One Show.” For all the latest news and results from Crufts, log on to www.crufts.org.uk Tune in to Crufts FM Crufts FM will be broadcasting live from Crufts 2008 from Wednesday 5th March 2008 until Monday 10th March 2008. Times still to be confirmed. Crufts FM show preview podcast for Crufts 2008 Unlike many Event Radio stations such as those set-up for the Grand Prix, Horse Trials, race meetings and airshows, Crufts FM is not only broadcast at the show but also via the Crufts website - or by clicking the Crufts FM logo on this page to listen live from Wednesday 5th March. You'll be able to hear interviews and features, the results as they happen and the LIVE chat with the winner conveying all the emotion and drama that only radio can portray. There's the usual radio station features like news on the hour, but it's a personalised service - so the traffic and travel news is appropriate for the show - with the main roads and motorways covered and news of the carparks at the NEC. The Newsdesk covers the show results - not just in the show rings, but also in the Special Events ring where the station will be covering Heelwork to Music and Agility. Crufts FM will be broadcasting from a purpose built studio in the heart of the show. Presenters will be linking live to different commentators in the Arena and Special Events rings and to the various reporters who will be located around the show. They will feature interviews with the winning exhibitors and experts from the world of dogs, as well as talking to trade stand holders and show visitors. Results Desk Crufts FM will bring you the latest results from the rings every 20 minutes (at 20 to and 20 past each hour) as well as interviews with the winners. News Desk The Crufts FM News Desk will keep you up to date with the latest updates on results, news and interviews every half an hour. Kinde rg arte n Cr uf ts Puppies compete in next generation of Crufts competition On Friday 7th March at Crufts, the world’s greatest dog show, ten young pedigree dogs from across the country will be visiting the NEC in Birmingham to compete in the Grand Final of the Kennel Gazette Junior Warrant Winner of the Year Competition, one of the highest levels of achievements for young pedigree dogs. The Kennel Gazette Junior Warrant is a special Kennel Club award, which is aimed at dogs from the dog show world from the ages of 6 to 18 months which have qualified for the title by winning a series of first prizes at both Open and Championship Dog shows over the last year. They then won through to the final by being placed in the semi-finals, which were held last November at the Discover Dogs event in London. The overall winner will be presented with an award and trophy at Crufts and will be featured in the flagship publication of the Kennel Club, the Kennel Gazette, which keeps readers up to date with all the latest developments within the world of dogs, every month. The finalists are as follows: Barecho Hold Your Horses At Peasblossom JW, English Springer Spaniel, owners Mr D Mitchell & Ms J Beaton, from Mersham, Kent. King of Scalebor At Garmondsway JW, Bull Mastiff, owners Mr A & Dr B K MacDougall, from Bishop Middleham, Nr Ferryhill, Co. Durham. WORKING GUNDOG CERTIFICATE TO BE RE-LAUNCHED AT CRUFTS THE KENNEL Club will be re-launching the Working Gundog Certificate (WGC) at Crufts. Although the WGC is not a competition in itself, it assesses Kennel Club registered gundogs and their handlers against a set of specific criteria.The aim of this certificate is to provide credible proof that the handler and dog are a competent partnership, with the qualities to fulfil the general requirements of work on a shoot. For the first time this certificate has been opened up for dogs that point, which will be assessed on hunting, locating, pointing and steadiness. The newly streamlined certificate can now be taken at a variety of events including on a shoot using game, a WGC day for dogs that retrieve using dummies, a WGC day for dogs that point or a Gundog Working Test. Visitors are invited to attend the Dog Activities Stand in Hall 3 at Crufts as part of the WGC launch during Gundog Day on Friday 7th March where they will receive a free gift, a copy of the updated WGC Handbook and have the opportunity gain a more detailed insight into this award. Shardlow Pilot Of The Future JW ShCM, Lhasa Apso, owners A & JL Paradise, from Gloucester. Ch Serenaker Devil In Disguise JW, Beagle, owners Serena Parker and Mr Graham Stevens, from Chester, Cheshire. Crosscop Bluebell JW, Whippet, owners Mr George Waddell and Mrs Leigh Morris from Middlebie, Lockerbie. Ch Licassa Golden Grace JW, Bull Mastiff, owners Mesdames P Blunden and J Quantrill from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Lancastria Amber JW, Labrador Retriever, owner Mrs M D’Arcy, from Blackburn, Lancashire. Fairlenium Eye Of The Storm JW ShCM, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, owners: Mr & Mrs Fairhurst, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Ch Brenard Let’s Go Moonwalking With Navarre JW, Miniature Poodle, owners: Mrs C Lawton-Anderson and E Holmes-Leek, Newcastle in Staffordshire. Appleside Malinda JW, Border Terrier, owner Mrs Marylynne Winder, from Penrith in Cumbria. Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club Secretary, said, “All the candidates for the Junior Warrant Winner of the Year have done extremely well over the year in the preceding competitions.They thoroughly deserve to be competing at this high level and all of the dogs demonstrate the beauty of their particular breed. The gold standard for training of young dogs is set at this competition, and we wish everyone well.” Record numbers to compete at gamekeepers’ ring at Crufts A record number of gundogs will be competing in the gamekeepers’ ring at Crufts on Friday 07 March 2008 at the Birmingham NEC. More than 440 dogs will be competing in the gamekeepers’ ring this year which is a significant increase from the number of competitors just a year ago. BASC’s national gundog co-ordinator, Sheila Gussey, said: “I have seen a huge upsurge of interest in the gamekeepers’ ring at Crufts this year alone with many more dogs competing this year than they did last year. This is great news for the future of the gamekeepers’ ring at Crufts.” The judging will begin in the gamekeepers’ ring in Hall 5 at 9am with trophy presentations taking place at 4.30pm. The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme is always worth a visit, and this year will be no exception. Don’t miss it GCDS RING PROGRAMME - THURSDAY 6th MARCH 2008 09.45 Star Citizens - Heelwork to Music 09.55 Safe And Sound 10.10 Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 10.30 Good Citizen Dog Scheme Launch 10.45 GCDS Gold 11:10 GCDS Bronze 11.25 Canine Partners for Independence 11.40 GCDS Bronze 11.55 GCDS Silver 12.15 GCDS Puppy Foundation 12.30 Guide Dogs for the Blind Association 12.45 GCDS Gold 13.10 Petlog 13.15 Temptation Alley 13.30 GCDS Bronze 13.45 Royal Army Veterinary Corp 13.55 GCDS Silver 14.15 GCDS Puppy Foundation 14.30 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 14.45 GCDS Bronze 15.00 Safe And Sound 15.15 GCDS Gold 15.40 Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 16.00 GCDS Puppy Foundation 16.15 GCDS Bronze 16.30 Star Citizens- Heelwork to Music 16.45 GCDS Bronze 17.00 GCDS Silver 17.20 All Teams - Down Stay 17.30 Finish GCDS RING PROGRAMME - SATURDAY 8th MARCH 2008 08.30 Pre-Beginner Stakes Parade 08.45 Stakes Final 12.30 GCDS Gold 12.55 Temptation Alley 13.10 GCDS Bronze 13.25 GCDS Silver 13.45 Royal Army Veterinary Corp 13.55 GCDS Puppy Foundation 14.10 Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 14.30 GCDS Bronze 14.45 Petlog 14.50 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 15.05 Safe And Sound 15.20 Canine Partners for Independence 15.35 GCDS Puppy Foundation & Presentation 15.50 GCDS Gold 16.15 GCDS Bronze & Presentation 16.30 GCDS Silver & Presentation 16.55 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 17.10 GCDS Bronze & Presentation 17.25 All Teams Down Stay 17.35 Finish GCDS RING PROGRAMME - FRIDAY 7th MARCH 2008 09:30 GCDS Gold 09:55 Star Citizens - Heelwork to Music 10.10 GCDS Puppy Foundation 10.25 GCDS Bronze 10.40 Safe And Sound 10.55 GCDS Silver 11.15 GCDS Bronze 11.30 Canine Partners for Independence 11.45 GCDS Gold 12.10 Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 12.30 GCDS Puppy Foundation 12.45 Petlog 12.50 Guide Dogs For the Blind Association 13.05 GCDS Silver 13:25 GCDS Bronze 13:40 Temptation Alley 13.55 GCDS Bronze 14.10 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 14.25 Royal Army Veterinary Corp 14.35 GCDS Bronze 14.50 GCDS Puppy Foundation 15.05 Safe And Sound 15.20 GCDS Gold & Presentation 15.50 Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 16.10 GCDS Silver 16.30 GCDS Bronze 16.45 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 17.00 All Teams Down Stay 17.15 Finish GCDS RING PROGRAMME - SUNDAY 9TH MARCH 2008 09:30 GCDS Silver 09.50 GCDS Puppy Foundation 10.05 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 10.20 GCDS Bronze 10.35 Petlog 10.40 GCDS Gold 11.05 Canine Partners for Independence 11.20 Safe And Sound 11.35 PAT Dogs 11.50 Guide Dogs for the Blind Association 12.05 GCDS Bronze 12.20 GCDS Silver 12.40 Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 13.00 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 13.15 GCDS Bronze 13.30 GCDS Puppy Foundation 13.45 Royal Army Veterinary Corp 14.00 GCDS Bronze 14.15 GCDS Gold 14.40 PAT Dogs 14.50 Temptation Alley 15.05 GCDS Bronze & Presentation 15.20 Safe And Sound 15.35 GCDS Bronze & Presentation 15.50 GCDS Puppy Foundation & Presentation 16.05 GCDS Silver & Presentation 16.30 GCDS Gold & Presentation 17.00 Star Citizens – Heelwork to Music 17.15 All Teams Down Stay 17.25 Finish www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 5 Julie Stooks Canine Artist See me in Hall 4, Stand 16 at Crufts I will be available to paint your dogs from life or photo, during the show. Original oil and pastel paintings, cards, etc for sale. Tel: 01202 519044 Email: [email protected] Website: www.juliestooksart.com 6 International flavour just adds to the mix! Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk ‘One thing is for certain, the opening up of our borders to dogs from across the waters has certainly changed the course of history for Crufts,the world’s largest show’ S INCE THE PET PASSPORT scheme was introduced eight years ago, dogs residing outside the UK have been able to participate in the ‘Greatest Dog Show in the World’ – Crufts - by competing on an ATC (Authority to Compete) registration number. In the first year (2001), 98 ATC exhibits from 12 European Union countries were entered, since when the foreign entry has increased ten-fold; and their success has, proportionally, been quite astounding. In that first year, when expectations and supposition were mixed, 10% of the 98 dogs entered went away with CCs; and we had the first ATC group winner, the Italian Siberian Husky, Int Ch Cry Out, who won the working group. That year there were also eight overseas judges: three from the USA, and one each from Eire, Finland, Holland, Norway and Germany. The year 2002 saw the entry jump to 278 dogs from 15 countries (now including one dog each from Japan, Canada and Gibraltar); and the first ATC winner of the coveted BIS award in the shape of the Norwegian-bred and owned white Standard Poodle, Nord Ch Topscore Contradiction, who had a very cosmopolitan pedigree (including dogs bred in the UK, Sweden, Denmark and America). The following year (2003) the overseas entry nearly doubled to 543 dogs from 20 countries; and two group winners emerged from their ranks: the Swedish-bred Flatcoat, Multi Ch/Int Ch Inkwells Named Shadow; and the Italian-bred, Swissowned Newfoundland, Multi Ch/Int Ch And I’m Great To Be Back. A further 100 foreign dogs travelled to this iconic show in 2004, making the overseas entry 644 dogs from 22 countries; and once again they featured well in the main awards, with six of the 28 group places on offer going to ATC dogs. Four more were won by imported dogs, RBIS going to the Swedish-bred Scottie, Ch Raglan Rose Maiden at Brio. The toy group was won by the American-bred Bichon, Am Ch Paray’s I Told You So; and the pastoral group by the American-bred OES, Barkshire Born In The USA (who was later disqualified and replaced by the original G2, the American Australian Shepherd bitch, Am Ch Bayshore’s Russian Roulette). The numbers were up again in 2005, with 723 dogs from 26 countries; and two of the groups were judged by ‘imported’ judges, Kari Jarvinen doing the pastoral BOBs and Geir Flyckt-Pedersen (who now resides in the UK) the terriers. However, for the first time since their ‘invasion’ no ATC dogs featured in the group placings. Leap In 2006 there was another leap of numbers, up by another 179 dogs to 902 from 32 countries; and the Canadian-bred, American-owned Australian Shepherd (incidentally, this breed had tickets for the first time in the UK that year), the aptly named Am Ch Caitland Isle Take A Chance, became only the second trans-Atlantic-bred dog in the show’s history to win BIS. RBIS went to another dog bred in America, the imported WFT, Ch/Am Ch El-Rays Snowtaire Iceni Payback. The toy group was won by an American-bred Photo by John Jackson analysis by Sally Pointon Danish-owned Pomeranian, Dan/Sw Ch Finch’s Ovation For Me; and, amazingly, all three other placings in this group were won by ATC or imported dogs. The Dutch Bouvier, Sw/Ned Ch Gijs Santos from the Dogsfarm, won the working group, having won G4 here in 2005. Last year (2007) the Crufts overseas entry increased yet again, to 951 dogs, also from 32 countries; and they had another successful raid on our most famous of dog shows, with more than 80 ATC dogs and 30 imports featuring in the CC and RCC results. In the pastoral group two American dogs featured in the final four: G2 was the Australian Shepherd, Thornapple Aftershock (interestingly, all the Crufts BOBs for this breed have been bred in the USA); and G4 went to the American-bred Hungarian Puli, Am Ch Loakespark Pretty Smart (you may recognise the affix as being that of Ann Arch, who judged BIS at Crufts 2001; the Puli was bred by her daughter, Alex, who now resides in America). In the terrier group two ATC dogs also won places in the final lineup.The charismatic Dandie Dinmont, Aust Grand Ch/Am Ch Hobergay’s Fineus Fogg, took G2; and the Scottie, Am Ch Charthill Empire Maker, G4. In the hound group, G4 went to the ATC Pharaoh, Int Ch Xoez (in fact, three of the four top awards in this breed were ATC dogs). The toy group winner was the im- Photo by Alan V Walker ● Best in show at Crufts 2006, the American owned Australian Shepherd Dog Ms N Resetar’s Am Ch Caitland Isle Take A Chance, pictured with handler Larry Fenner and Best in show judge Mrs Brenda Banbury ported Maltese, Am/Can Ch Divines Marc of Friendship at Delcost, who now resides in Scotland.This was his second Crufts CC (his first, with BOB and G3 came at Crufts 2006) and his crowning third, so he added the UK champion title to his name as well. Foreign dogs swept the board in the gundog group, with the Swedishbred Flatcoat, Int & Multi Ch Almanza Far & Flyg, taking the top spot (another Almanza Flatcoat was G2 here in 2006); G2 went to the highly successful GWP import from Germany, Ch Freddy Vom Kapellenhof at Bareve; G3 was the imported (from New Zealand) Pointer, Sh Ch/NZ Grand Ch Chesterhope Lets Be Serious at Kanix; and G4 the Italian ATC Labrador, Loch Mor Welldone. The working group was topped by the multi-titled Malamute, Ch Giving A New Royal Star de Jungla Negra. The utility group did not have any foreign dogs in the final four placings, but there were more than 10 ATC exhibits or imports in the CC results table; and of course, although bred here in the UK, the 2007 BIS winner, the Tibetan Terrier Ch/Am Ch Araki Fabulous Willy, had just returned from his new home in California! Last year nine overseas judges officiated at the show – from as far afield as South Africa, Australia and Bermuda. This year there are eight: Mr H O’Donoghue (Ireland) will judge Japanese Akita Inu, Canaan Dogs, Irish Terriers, Tibetan Mastiffs, and Russian Blacks; Mr P Green (USA), Australian Silky Terriers, and WFT; Mrs E de Luca (Italy), Coton de Tulear, and Havanese; Mr P Albergaria (Portugal), Estrelas; Mrs S Jernhake (Sweden), Scottish Terriers, and Cesky; Mr L Adeheimer (Sweden), Welsh Terriers; Ms P HeikkinenLehkonen (Finland), Finnish Spitz; and Mrs E Megginson (South Africa), Rhodesian Ridgebacks. A breakdown of this year’s overseas entry has not been divulged as we go press, but - if the previous years’ figures are anything to go by we can expect a substantial entry from other countries. How much influence these foreign dogs - and judges - will have on the results this year, only time will tell. One thing is for certain - the opening up of our borders to dogs from across the waters has certainly changed the course of history for the world’s largest show – and perhaps our hobby in the UK - forever; and there is now an added air of excitement about this, our showcase event of the year, which has evolved into a truly international competition. ● The very first ATC group winner, the Italian Siberian Husky, Int Ch Cry Out, who won the working group in 2001. That year there were also eight overseas judges: three from the USA, and one each from Eire, Finland, Holland, Norway and Germany. ● The Swedish-bred Flatcoat, the late Int & Multi Ch Almanza Far & ● Last year’s Working group winner was Biagiotta’s Multi Ch Giving ● Terrier group 2 in 2007 (USA) was won by the Dandie Dinmont, Aust A new Royal Star de Jungla Negra from Italy Photo by Alan V Walker Grand Ch/Am Ch Hobergay’s Fineus Fogg Flyg, who topped the Gundog group last year Photo by Alan V Walker www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 7 8 ‘Crufts is fabulous!’ Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk OUR DOGS’ Louise Warburton catches up with Peter Purves as he prepares to co-present the world’s greatest dog show Hi Peter, well here we are again, another Crufts! Tell us about your childhood. Did you grow up with dogs? I only had one dog as a child when I was eleven my parents inherited a Cocker Spaniel called Rusty. He was black with rusty red muzzle and paws. Very handsome boy, and MUCH larger than the average cocker you’d see in the show ring or working in the field. He died when I was 15. When did your love of dogs first begin? I suppose it began then with Rusty, but my career meant that keeping a dog was impractical. It was only when I started working on Blue Peter that owning a dog became a reality. I took Petra back home as my dog, and she lived with me and my family until she died aged 15. Tell us about your memories of working with Petra Petra was great fun to work with, but she was quite badtempered with other dogs that invaded her studio! She didn’t like the studio, and only tolerated it because she could sit with me much of the time. There was an official dog-minder who had looked after Petra prior to my arrival on the show, Edith Menezez. There is no doubt she absolutely loved Petra, and when I went away filming she was always delighted to take her back. It was a really good working relationship, with Petra having two loving homes to go to. We made several films with her - I can remember doing some obedience training with her, and we filmed her doing distant control, at which she was quite proficient. Have you ever been involved with showing / breeding dogs? Or have you ever judged dogs? I have only judged at Companion Dog Shows, and various novelty classes. I quite enjoy it, and have done part of the judges course under Terry Thorn. But it isn’t really what I do. I have recently bred my first litter - seven beautiful WireHaired Dachshunds from my bitch, Hattie (a lovely red, pin wire bitch but unregistered) and my wonderful dog Lankelly Woody Valentine (bred by Pam Poulter). The litter was born in October last year. How long have you worked for the BBC at Crufts? This year will be my 31st at Crufts for the BBC. Actually I could claim one extra year as I presented an item with Stanley Dangerfield specially for children at the 1976 Crufts, held at Olympia. But I began in 1978 when I introduced Agility to the Crufts TV audience. From there I went on to present all the Obedience Championships, and then the Agility and Obedience TV programmes. In 1989 I became co-presenter of the entire Crufts output with Angela Rippon, and that continued when the show moved from Earl’s Court to the NEC in 1990. Angela left the show in 1992, and my lovely colleague and friend Jessica Holm took over, and that continued until 2001, when first Phillippa Forester, then Gaby Roslin, and then Clare Balding took the helm. Clare of course is now joined by Ben Fogle and Matt Baker. But also in 2001, Jessica and I became the principal commentators for the show, and were joined by the wonderful Frank Kane and Wayne Cavanaugh. Wayne, of course, joined because now Animal Planet were heavily involved as co-producers, and we four commentators made a programme every year for distribution on the Discovery Channel in the States. Amazingly, the Animal Planet team managed to convey the illusion that this amazing show takes place in just one day. 22,500 dogs judged to a winner in the space of 12 hours or so. The mind boggles. Luckily we only had to commentate and give our opinions on dogs’ chances. Good fun, and the What a collection! Peter and his dogs from left: Teddy, Woody, Hattie and Kent, with Tillie in the foreground collaboration was hugely appreciated by the BBC. Sadly this year, Animal Planet has pulled out of the joint effort, and that means we will no longer have the pleasure of working with a really wonderful team from Painless Productions. We’ll miss them. But Crufts will be as big and as good as ever on BBC2. Aside from Crufts, what dog events are you looking forward to attending this year? There are a number of compelling events for me - The Contest of Champion Show Dogs (Saturday April 5th) is an annual event organised by the Canine Supporters’ Charity.This is an invitation event where the first 64 responders to the invitation take part in a match in front of International Judges, who may or may not have any knowledge of our individual dogs. In the past this has thrown up many anomalies, with very big winners going out in the first round, but it is a wonderfully well-supported event, and great fun to all who attend. Dinner, a great dog show, an auction and cabaret and dancing.What more could you want? All About Dogs is another notto-be-missed event, organised by Roy and Carol Dyer and their team at Brentwood Events, (May 10th and 11th) this year. This is one of those fun events that has absolutely everything, and has grown year after year. I am privileged to attend each year, and I love the show. If you’ve never been, then try it.There are competitions of every description, fun activities for the visitor, a main arena packed with good events to watch, and trade stands and charity stands who do a great trade, and a good days’ work. Later in the year I am intrigued by Beverly Cuddy’s new venture, the Cold Wet Nose Show in Guildford (Saturday July 12th) and the revived Wag and Bone Show in Windsor Great Park. And I must mention Discover Dogs in November. I have a number of other shows I will attend, but am looking forward enormously to the Guide Dog Gala Day in the summer, after it was disappointingly cancelled last year with a waterlogged showground. It has moved to the Royal Showground at Stoneleigh and let’s hope for a drier summer in 2008. Are there any previous BIS winners at Crufts that you have particularly admired and why? Almost too many to mention, but if I must I’d go for Burtonwood Bossyboots (St Bernard) in 1974. Also Harrowhill Huntsman (W/H Fox Terrier) in 1978 because my interview with the owner was my first major interview after I left Blue Peter. I loved the 2007 winner Fabulous Willie, and of course Bert Easdon’s delightful Peke in 2003. Peter’s top five Favourite holiday destination Amalfi Favourite food Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding Favourite tv show Crufts, I loved Life on Mars, and I enjoy 24 Favourite sport Golf Favourite book Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett Peter comparing the Contest of Champion Show Dogs, of which he is President Man’s best friend: Peter and 16 week old Dottie Do you share your home with dogs at the moment? I share my house with far too many dogs. My wife Kathryn and I currently have seven. One very aged Newfoundland, Kent, who is almost 12 now, and doesn’t see very well, but he is still a happy boy. Two elderly Pekingese, Tilly and Holly who are both just 10, and two adult and two puppy Wire-Haired Dachshunds, Hattie (30 months) Woody (22 months), and Teddy and Dottie who are just 16 weeks old. They are a lovely collection but I haven’t yet managed to get pictures of them all together. What’s your opinion of the notion that Crufts is getting too big? I disagree that Crufts is getting too big. The aim is to accommodate the best dogs in the country of every recognised breed. It is a huge undertaking by the Kennel Club, and has got better and better over the years. For the casual visitor to the show, and there are many, the Discover Dogs booths are a brilliant innovation, spawning their own show in November. The judging runs, if not like clockwork, pretty close to it.The use last year of the Arena and Pavillion to accommodate the Action events and the Obedience Championships respectively proved to be most successful. There is always going to be massive congestion between the halls, but that is not the fault of Crufts or the KC but of the venue. Between Halls 1 and 2 and between 4 and 5 the stairways and passages are just too small to take the crowds, who seem to grow every year. 170,000 last year. I think it’s fabulous! Do you have any unfulfilled ambitions? None. How do you like to relax? I love my Golf, but with so many dogs I am having difficulty finding the time to play. I enjoy walking, particularly on the beach with the dogs. I enjoy the theatre (actually much less than previously), the cinema (an evergrowing passion) and eating good food. Join Peter and the team for Crufts 2008 Live coverage from Birmingham NEC BBC2 from 6-9 March www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 9 Provisional order of judging 10 Crufts Classic 2008 EARLY AND late starts for Crufts plus ring information Judging starts in all rings at 9am, though due to increased entries, please note the following early and late starts. The very early starts 8.00 am are indicated with a ◗◗ The early starts 8.30 am are indicated with a ◗◗ The late starts 10 am are indicated with a ◗◗ Hall Ring 1 1 1 1 1 2 3/4 5 1 6 1 1 7 8 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 4 21 4 22 4 4 5 5 23 24 25 26 5 5 5 5 5 27 28 29 30 31 5 32 5 5 5 33 34 35 5 3 36 YKC Hall 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 Ring 1 2 3 4 5 6 7/8 9 10 11 2 12 2 4 13/14 15/16 TOY & UTILITY GROUPS THURSDAY 6th MARCH Breed Judge Schnauzer Mr A. Fletcher *Japanese Akita Inu Mr H.J. O’Donoghue [Ireland] *Canaan Dog Mr H.J. O’Donoghue [Ireland] Miniature Schnauzer Mrs S. Hattrell Akita Mrs A.Arch Mrs P.B.Allington Schipperke ◗ Chow Chow Mrs M. Robbins Japanese Spitz Mr J. Peach Japanese Shiba Inu Mrs E. Dunhill Mr L.M. Cutts Dalmatian ◗ German Spitz (Klein) Mr M.C. Freeman German Spitz (Mittel) Mr M.C. Freeman Mr A.A. Brown Shih Tzu ◗ Miss J. Cunliffe Lhasa Apso ◗ Mrs S. Penny Jones Poodle (Toy) ◗ Mrs K. Sillito-Beale Poodle (Miniature) ◗ Poodle (Standard) Mrs M. Rodgers Grooming Area for Poodles Mr P. Robson Bulldog ◗ French Bulldog Dr C.Towner Tibetan Spaniel Miss H. Simper Mrs J. Robin-Smith Tibetan Terrier ◗ Mr G. Mitchell Keeshond ◗ Shar Pei Mr E.M. Paterson Boston Terrier Mrs P. Saycell Mrs S. Saxby Miniature Pinscher ◗ Griffon Bruxellois Miss M.E.H. Marshall Mrs F.A. Somerfield Japanese Chin ◗ Maltese Miss M.E. Cox Mrs S. Penman Pekingese ◗ Mr E. Hulme Pug ◗ Chinese Crested Mrs V.H. Blore Mr M. Coad Bichon Frisé ◗ *Australian Silky Terrier Mr P.J. Green [USA] *Bolognese Mrs R. Morgan Chihuahua (Long Coat) ◗ Mrs V. Gillott Chihuahua (Smooth Coat) ◗ Mrs J.Wallhead Mr G.J. Urquhart Papillon ◗ Pomeranian Mrs E. Sumner Mrs J.A. Cox Italian Greyhound ◗ *Coton de Tulear Ms E. de Luca [Italy] *Havanese Ms E. de Luca [Italy] English Toy Terrier (B & T) Mrs D.A. Horan Affenpinscher Mrs B. Banbury CKCS (D) Mrs M.E. Newton Mrs T.M. Jackson CKCS (B) ◗ Mrs C. Gilles Compston King Charles Spaniel ◗ Lowchen (Little Lion Dog) Miss D. Dixon Mrs W.F.White-Thomas Yorkshire Terrier ◗ Y.K.C. Stakes (Toy) Mr S. Hall Y.K.C. Stakes (Utility) Mr S. Hall GUNDOG GROUP FRIDAY 7th MARCH Breed Irish Setter (D) Irish Setter (B) ◗ English Setter (D) ◗ English Setter (B) Irish Red & White Setter ◗ Gordon Setter Pointer ◗ Spaniel (American Cocker) Spaniel (Welsh Springer) Spaniel (Sussex) ◗ Spaniel (Irish Water) Spaniel (Clumber) Spaniel (Field) Spaniel (English Springer) Weimaraner ◗ Judge Mr J.N. Bott Mrs N.Wilson Mr J. Baldwin Mrs H.J. Spencer Mr C. Davies Mrs V.G. Mosedale Mrs J. Organ Mr W.E. Bunce Mr T. Graham Mrs B. Purkis Mr R.Taylor Mr J.R. Evans Mrs J. Holgate Mr C.Woodward Mrs J. Fairlie www.ourdogs.co.uk 4 4 4 4 17 18 19/20 21 4 4 4 22 23 24 5 25/26 5 5 5 5 5 27 28 29 30 32 5 5 5 33 34 36 Spaniel (Cocker) (D) Spaniel (Cocker) (B) ◗ German S/H Pointer ◗ German W/H Pointer ◗ *Hungarian W/H Vizsla *German L/H Pointer Hungarian Vizsla ◗ Italian Spinone Large Munsterlander ◗ Brittany Gamekeepers’ Classes Mrs S.Young Mr D. Shields Mrs R. Field Mrs P.D.A.Williams Mr C.A.Atkinson Mr J.S.Thirlwell Mr J.J.J. Sheridan Mr D. Blacklock Mr A.H. Brace Mrs P. Beaven Prof. D. Brigden Mrs G. Knox Retriever (Golden) (D) Mrs P.J. Bevis Retriever (Golden) (B) ◗ Mrs A.E. Falconer Retriever (F/C) (D) Mrs H.C. Murray Retriever (F/C) (B) ◗ Mr M.Armstrong Retriever (Chesapeake Bay) Mr J.Tiranti *Retriever (NCDT) Mrs P.A. Blay Retriever (Labrador) (D) Mrs P. Carpanini Retriever (Labrador) (B) ◗ Mr V. Cole Retriever (Curly Coated) ◗ Mr J.S.Thirlwell *Kooikerhondje Mrs J.A. Swinburn Y.K.C. Stakes (Gundog) Mr S. Hall 3 YKC Pavilion Obed. Obedience Championships [Dogs] Mr P. Lubbi WORKING & PASTORAL GROUPS SATURDAY 8th MARCH Hall 1 1 1 1 1 Ring 1 2 3 4 5 1 6 1 1 2 2 7 8 9 10 2 2 2 2 11 12 13 14 4 4 15 16 4 4 4 17 18 19 4 20 4 21 4 22 4 23 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Breed Border Collie (D) Border Collie (B) ◗ Collie (Rough) (D) Collie (Rough) (B) Maremma Sheepdog ◗ Polish Lowland Sheepdog Collie (Smooth) Lancashire Heeler ◗ Australian Shepherd *Hungarian Kuvasz Bearded Collie (D) Bearded Collie (B) ◗ G.S.D. (Alastian) Briard Australian Cattle Dog *Finnish Lapphund Shetland Sheepdog (D) Shetland Sheepdog (B) ◗ BSD (Tervueren) BSD (Groenendael) BSD (Malinois) *BSD (Laekenois) Samoyed Welsh Corgi (Cardigan) ◗ Norwegian Buhund Welsh Corgi (Pembroke) Old English Sheepdog Pyrenean Mountain Dog ◗ *Pyrenean Sheepdog *Anatolian Shepherd Dog *Komondor Hungarian Puli Swedish Vallhund *Estrela Mountain Dog St Bernard ◗ Mastiff Alaskan Malamute Bouvier des Flandres Giant Schnauzer *Hovawart *Greenland Dog *Canadian Eskimo Dog *German Pinscher Siberian Husky ◗ Dobermann (D) Dobermann (B) Leonberger Bernese Mountain Dog Newfoundland ◗ Bullmastiff Rottweiler (D) Rottweiler (B) ◗ Portuguese Water Dog ◗ *Tibetan Mastiff Judge Mrs S. Hughes Mrs A.L.M. Gillespie Mrs V. Geddes Mrs J.Wigglesworth Lady C.Walsh Mrs E. Georgion Mrs I. Cozens Mr J. Luscott Mr J. Luscott Mr J. Luscott Mrs S. Nicholls-Ward Mrs M.Appleby Mr T. Hannan Mr Max Jones Mr S. Hall Mrs J.Vaughan Mr M. Hart Mrs D. Moore Mr T.R. Caldow Mrs V.A.Thompson Miss J. Biddlecombe Miss J. Biddlecombe Mr J. Bispham Mr S.J. Parsons Mrs J. Purves Mr A.Wight Mrs S.M. Swatkins Mr J. Kirk Mr F.J. Randall Mrs B. Banbury Mrs B. Banbury Mrs J. Farnfield Mrs D. Edmunds Mr P.Albergaria [Portugal] Miss B. Swaine-Williams Mr W.F.Toogood Mrs J.M. Broadberry Miss J. Lanning Mrs A.Arch Mrs G. Stockton Mr S.W. Myring Mr S.W. Myring Mr Tegwyn Jones Mr K.F. Greenland Mrs L. Rock Miss A.I. Lonsdale Mrs J. Davie Mrs H.E. Davenport Mr T.J. Hedd Richards Mr E. Grant Mrs J. Killilea Mr D. Killilea Mrs H. Irving Mr H.J. O’Donoghue [Ireland] Mr H.J. O’Donoghue [Ireland] *Neapolitan Mastiff Mr B.W. Cadogan Great Dane ◗ Mrs J.M. MacDonald Boxer (D) Mrs P.A. Broughton Boxer (B) Mrs J. Mair Y.K.C. Stakes Finals (Work) Mr S. Hall Y.K.C. Stakes Finals (Past) Mr S. Hall *Russian Black Terrier 5 34 5 35 5 36 3 YKC 3 YKC Pavilion Obed. Obedience Championships Mr R. Kebble [Bitches] TERRIER & HOUND GROUPS SUNDAY 9th MARCH Hall Ring 1 1 Breed Judge Fox Terrier (Wire) Mr P.J. Green [USA] Fox Terrier (Smooth) Mr G. Flyckt-Pedersen 1 2 Lakeland Terrier Mr P.Wilkinson Parson Russell Terrier Mr L. Price 1 3 Kerry Blue Terrier ◗ Mrs L. Nagle Scottish Terrier Mrs S. Jernhake [Sweden] *Cesky Terrier Mrs S. Jernhake [Sweden] 1 4 Welsh Terrier ◗ Mr L.Adeheimer [Sweden] Irish Terrier Mr H.J. O’Donoghue [Ireland] Skye Terrier Miss N.A. Bower 1 5 Glen of Imaal Terrier ◗ Mrs Z.Thorn-Andrews SCWT Mr M.P. Phillips 1 6 Manchester Terrier Mrs E. Needham Bedlington Terrier Mrs C.A. Smallwood-Clevely 1 7 Sealyham Terrier ◗ Miss J. Miller Airedale Terrier Mrs J. Callon Australian Terrier Miss L.M. Bell 1 8 WHWT Mrs F.A. Somerfield 2 9 Cairn Terrier Mrs S. Berrecloth 2 10 Bull Terrier (Miniature) Dr B.E. Hill Bull Terrier Mr W. Lambert 2 11 Norfolk Terrier ◗ Mr J.B. Baxter Dandie Dinmont Terrier Mrs M. Nicholson Norfolk Terrier Mr G. Corish 2 12 Border Terrier ◗ Mr J. Bainbridge 2 13 Staffordshire Bull Terrier (D) ◗ Mr I. MacEachern 2 14 Staffordshire Bull Terrier (B) Mr I. Keyes 4 15 Afghan Hound (D) Mr J.M. Bunney 4 16 Afghan Hound (B) Mrs M.J. Davies 4 17/18 Irish Wolfhound 4 19 Whippet (D) Mrs M. Bolton-Lockhart 4 20 Whippet (B) ◗ Miss E.W. Newton 4 21 Dachshund (MS-Haired) ◗ Mrs J. Peak Dachshund (Smooth-Haired) Mrs M.F.Turner 4 22 Dachshund (Min W/H) Mrs M.R. Nixon 4 23 Dachshund (Min L/H) Mrs R.A. Lockett-Walters 4 24 Dachshund (Wire-Haired) ◗ Mr Derek Smith Dachshund (Long-Haired) Mrs J.R. Naylor 5 25 Saluki Mrs M. Roberts *Sloughi Mr M. Cocozza 5 26 Finnish Spitz Ms P. Heikkinen-Lehkonen [Finland] Deerhound Mrs D.A. Kenis-Pordham 5 27 Norwegian Elkhound Mrs E.A. Macdonald Greyhound Mr P.Talling 5 28 Borzoi Mrs P. Marston-Pollock 5 29 Beagle ◗ Miss S. Kimber 5 30 Rhodesian Ridgeback ◗ Mrs E. Megginson [South Africa] 5 31 BGV (Petit) ◗ Mrs P.J.Aldous BGV (Grand) Mr C.S.Y. Gillanders 5 32 Basset Fauve de Bretagne ◗ Mrs S.A. Rawlings Basenji Mr G.A. Dymock 5 33 Basset Hound Mr D. Ledward 5 34 Ibizan Hound ◗ Mr G.B. Carter Pharaoh Hound Mrs D. Diamond *Foxhound Mrs E.A. Macdonald 5 35 Otterhound ◗ Mr P. Seier-Sorensen Bloodhound Miss L. Pogodzinski *Hamiltonstovare Miss E.W. Newton 3 YKC Y.K.C. Stakes (Terrier) Mr S. Hall 3 YKC Y.K.C. Stakes (Hound) Mr S. Hall Arena Agility Championships * Denotes breeds without Challenge Certificates. * Denotes breeds without Challenge Certificates www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 11 12 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Lots to cherish at Crufts auction THERE IS always lots to see and enjoy at the world’s largest dog show and this year is no exception. The Kennel Club will once again be holding its popular ‘Dogs in Art and Literature’ auction, on behalf of the Kennel Club Charitable Trust, at Crufts on Sunday March 9th. There will be well in excess of 300 lots on offer at the show, and to allow time for everyone to enjoy the auction more comfortably, it will commence at the earlier time of 12 noon.The auction will take place on Stand 98 in Hall 3a, with visitors able to view many of the items available on the stand over the preceding three days of the show and the morning of the sale.An illustrated catalogue of the lots will be available at the show. This year’s auction offers an eclectic selection, with something for even the most discerning of collectors.The book section has a number of rare volumes including Shields American Book of the Dog, Chapin’s Dogs in Early New England, Jowett’s Complete Story of the Airedale, early dog show catalogues and the first volume of the Kennel Club Stud Book. Rare prints Included amongst the pictures is a watercolour of a Pekingese in a secret garden, a number of cartoons by the American humorist Zito, sketches by Persis Kirmse and some rarely seen prints by Maud Earl. The section devoted to porcelain and sculpture will include a collection of Continental porcelain Dachshunds, a selection of all sizes of Images courtesy of the Kennel Club Royal Doulton dogs, a varied choice of Bulldogs and an early 20th century Austrian painted spelter Airedale. Within the jewellery section, there will be some carved Essex crystals, miniatures by W.B. Ford mounted as stickpins, a rare micromosaic of a Toy Spaniel and a Victorian carved ivory brooch.The sale also includes some Victorian dog collars. All monies raised from the auction will be given to the Kennel Club Charitable Trust, which celebrates its 21st birthday this year. Since it was established in 1987, the Trust has distributed grants totalling over £3million to a wide variety of deserving causes, with almost £450,000 awarded in 2007 alone. The Trust has three main objectives that support its overall mission of ‘Making a difference for dogs’: Science: Assisting the advancement of education and science by helping fund research into canine diseases and hereditary disorders in dogs. Support: Improving the quality of life for human beings by promoting dogs as therapeutic and practical aids. Welfare: Helping relieve the suffering of dogs which are in need of care and attention. ● Lot 163: Pekingese in a Secret Garden by Charles J Allport. Watercolour ● BELOW Lot 165: Two Bearded Collies in a mountain landscape by Michael Herring, oil on canvas ● Lots 98, 96, 97, 100, 94 and 95: a selection of breed specific stick pins and ornate brooches ● Left to right: Lot no. 30 Royal Doulton Irish Setter HN1055 modelled on Ch. Pat O’Moy 5ins high; 29 Royal Doulton Cocker Spaniel HN1021 modelled on Lucky Star of Ware 3½ins high; 54 Royal Doulton Airedale HN1023 5¼ins high; 42 Royal Doulton German Shepherd Dog HN1115 modelled on Ch Benign of Picardy 9ins high, large size ● Lot 173: 19th century school. Two Deerhound/Irish Wolfhound head against a mountain landscape, oil on canvas ● Lots 111, 109 and 110: Victorian leather dog collar with brass fittings and engravings ● Lot 193: Manner of John Emms - five Smooth Fox Terriers in a kennel, oil on board www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 13 14 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Overseas’ visitors Hall 3 Main Stand KC INFORMATION STAND KC CHARITABLE TRUST AUCTION Hall 1 PRESS OFFICE PIAZZA FRONT ENTRANCE Hall 5 Stand 216 and Deya Photography Obedience ring Hall 1 Stand 2 Digital Hall 2 Stand 82 Main Stand Group Judging and Best in Show ring Hall 3 supported by www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 15 16 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts For most, an appointment to judge at any championship show is a fantastic opportunity, to be asked to judge a breed at Crufts is the stuff that dreams are made of...and then there’s the groups. Meet the group and best in show judges for Crufts, and find out a bit more about their backgrounds and what makes them tick... Best in show Mrs Clare Coxall All Rounder Clare is a name synonymous with Poodles, with her Tiopepi prefix. Most will recall her fantastic Crufts BIS win 1966 with theToy Poodle Oakington Puckshill Amber Sunblush, and in 1985 was the breeder of the BIS winner Gibb’s Ch Montravia Tommy Gun From breeding her first litter of Poodles in 1957, she has judged over nearly 50,000 dogs all over the world, and has owned or bred 179 champions worldwide. Formerly a veterinary nurse, Clare has assisted the veterinary profession in various hereditary breeding problems. Clare's greatest achievement will be the honour of judging Best in Show at Crufts. Hound group Mrs Zola Rawson Mrs Rawson was born in Tehran to Russian parents.She says she had always wanted all kinds of animals, but was never allowed any of her own until after she was married! Owing to her husband’s work they ived in different countries for short periods of time and, because of this, it was the common practice to take over the pets of those people we replaced. However in 1961, when her husband was working in Baghdad, they were given a smooth Saluki, and both fell in love with the breed and decided upon their return to the UK, that that was to be the breed for them. A few years and countries later they returned to England and acquired their first Saluki a male from Terry Thorn of the Tahawi fame. Shortly after this they got a bitch and started showing at open show level,and eventually bred their first litter. The Rawsons took the affix Mumtaz, rather tongue in cheek, as the translation from the Arabic means “the best”. Zola has now bred many Champion Salukis in both this country and abroad. She has also owned and bred both Miniature Longhaired Dachshunds and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Zola was Secretary of Horley & Distict Show Society for some 13 years, and says she found that aspect of the dog scene very enjoyable and challenging. She started judging in 1976 and awarded her first set of CCs in 1982, the Hound Group in 1991 and now awards Challenge Certificates in all breeds in the Hound Group, and also judges the Toy Group. Zola has judged almost everywhere in the world with the exception of the Far East, and enjoys seeing breeds in other countries. She has judged at Crufts on a few occasions now, but says to be invited to judge the Group is a big honour. ‘I feel privileged to do so,and also very excited at this wonderful opportunity.It is going to be such a tremendous pleasure’,she says. Gundog group Mrs Patsy Hollings Born into a farming family, Patsy grew up around animals and rode from a very early age.Horses were her passion. Upon joining theYoung Farmers’ Club, she met Stephen Hollings, he too from a farming background. Both being of a competitive nature, they excelled at county and national YKC ompetitions. Stephen also showed pigeons and Patsy competed in equestrian events, so upon their marriage it seemed a normal progression to enter the local YKC dog exemption show with their English setter, the “bug” bit hard! The year was 1973. A big plus in their success in dogs stems from the fact that they know each other’s strengths. Consequently Patsy became the “front” of the team. Learning the dog game took years of doing the job, listening, learning and taking advice. Patsy still enjoys the learning side and gleans so much from attending the group development seminars. In 1976,they bought their firstWeimaraner from Scotland,following this with a dog from Dick Finch, who became their first Weimaraner champion, Sh Ch Hansom Brandyman of Gunalt. She first started judging in 1979,probably because of having two gundog breeds in different sub-groups. Patsy was asked to judge various gundogs and loved the challenge of judging each breed against its standard.Out of respect for each breed, she read standards,(still does) and attended seminars on various different breeds, not only gundogs. Each one information could be gleaned, which developed the eye for judging and the ability to constructively breed better dogs. Patsy awarded CCs for the first time in 1987, at South Wales and the gun- dog group at Manchester in 1994, both memorable occasions. She is passed to award CCs in over 27 breeds, through Gundogs, Terriers, Pastrol and Utility groups. The highlight of her judging career came in 2007, again at SWKA when Patsy judged her first best in show, all breeds show at championship level, something she never thought would come her way, the most humbling part, to have the respect of folk in dogs to be awarded that honour. To win BIS at a championship show was also something held dear in her heart. Having bred over 60 UK champions and being top breeder all breeds more than 12 times is both scary and fulfilling. Both Stephen and Patsy were thrilled in 2005 to win the Tom Horner award for excellence, presented by Dog World and the Pedigree Petfoods achievement award, ‘recognition of this type is amazing’ says Patsy. Toy group Geoffrey Davies pleasure to officiate for OES and have been honoured to judge there on several occasions since but none can quite equal the immense pride in being invited to judge a Group at the world’s number one dog show’. Pastoral group Mrs Zena Thorn-Andrews ZENA THORN-Andrews spent her early years surrounded by family dogs; mostly GSDs and a beloved Bulldog ‘Sevenup Jenny’; all of which influenced her decision to enter the world of show dogs. She joined the IrishWolfhound Club in 1965, to learn about the breed,and began to attend local shows and Crufts - in fact, she has not missed a Crufts show since 1965! Her Drakesleat kennel needs no introduction, and her world-renowned Irish Wolfhounds were joined by her second breed.MiniatureWirehaired Dachshunds. From the first Champion Irish Wolfhound and Miniature Wirehaired Dachshund in the early 70s, Zena has bred or owned 112 British Champions and is now the Top breeder all breeds for number of Champions since records began in 1873. Zena started judging in the early 70s, and progressed through the hound group as a specialist, before branching out into other groups. She judged extensively at hunt terrier shows and for over 20 years hunted both Wolfhounds and Dachshunds, therefore is very keen on good conformation and fitness in all breeds. Zena is approved to award CCs in 150 breeds, and is currently number two top judge in the UK. She is also approved by the FCI as an all breed judge in all FCI countries. She still shows Dachshunds but sadly does not haveWolfhounds any more.The record of top breeder every year since 1975 in one or both breeds has never been bettered by anyone in the UK. Married to the well known all breeds judgeTerryThorn, Zena has judged at many World shows, judged the Hound group at Crufts in1998 and, of course, Best in show in 2007. Geoffrey Davies commenced showing Pekingese as a school boy in 1962, and was a regular exhibitor and spectator at local sanction and limited shows, which proved to be an invaluable training ground. In 1967, he won his first CC at Cardiff Championship Show, Sophia Gardens, and went on to own and make-up fifteen champions including Group, Best in Show and Pup of the Year Winners. Geoffrey also won the Toy Group at Crufts 1993. Geoffrey awarded his first set of tickets at Darlington 1974, and judged his first group at East of England 1993. He has gradually worked his way through the toy group, and is now approved to award Challenge Certificates in all Toy breeds with the exception of English Toy Terriers. He has judged at leading breed specialities and Toy Dog events throughout the world, including France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden Denmark, Ireland and America. Involvement with various canine societies and breed clubs has always interested Geoffrey and he has held various positions on a variety of breed clubs and toy dogs societies, and served on the committee of Blackpool Championship Show, where he held the position of Vice Chairman for a period of over 10 years. Outside of the world of dogs, having finished school and a part-time college course, Geoffrey chose to pursue a career in purchasing and has gone on to hold senior buying positions and directorships for some of the UK’s top retailers, Bill Browne-Cole manufacturers and distributors of household textiles. He retired from business in 2007. Geoffrey’s other interests include:- Good food and wine- shared with friends Bill Browne-Cole (Travella) was born in Bristol and is a Director, and he has Attending antique/fine art auctions and adding to his modest collection of paint- been involved in dogs all his life. His specialist breed is the Wire Fox Terrier As well as being Chairman of The Wire Fox Terrier Association, he is also a ings and ceramics Committee member of Bath Championship Show, Geoffrey lives happily with his partner of 32 years, Michael Mason, and two Vice President of The Welsh Terrier Associadogs – Nancy an adorable Border Terrier and Emma, an obstinate but very lovtion and Vice President of The Southern ing Pekingese. The help, guidance and encouragement he has been given by so Counties Australian Terrier Club. many people past and present is acknowledged by Geoffrey with tremendous His judging appointments have taken appreciation. him to the USA, Australia, South Africa, Europe and Scandinavia. His most memorable judging experience was BIS at The National Terrier Championship Show as well as the many terrier breeds at Crufts and Montgomery USA. He first awarded CCs at Leicester in 1971. Stuart Mallard The Travellas have bred well over 50 champions including three World Having a passion for animals and wildlife Stuart was champions, a Res BIS at Crufts, overall indulged as a child and his home regularly had a Champion Stakes and twice overall Junmenagerie of assorted pets including dogs. ior Stakes winner. This year sees the fortieth anniversary of him becoming seriously involved with the dog world, initially with Old English Sheepdogs, a breed in which many Champions were made up at home and overseas under the Lameda and later Tuckles affixes. One of his earliest triumphs was winning Keith Nathan BIS at the LKA in 1974 with the OES Ch Lameda Perfect Pal. As was the case with most from that era, his first love was the dogs First started showing in 1969 and made up 12 Champion Standard Poodles in – breeding and exhibiting. ‘Looking back I realise this country with champions in Norway, Germany, Canada and USA. that I must have been extremely focused, I never The first champion Ch. Parkro Court Royal of Supernova was made up in thought about judging or ever planned to judge. It evolved as a natural pro- 1974 and probably the most famous Ch. Midshipman at gression from the experience gained as a breeder/exhibitor.’ Kertellas Supernova in 1978, he won 12 ChampiControversy around Hip Dysplasia within the breed prompted Stuart to onship show Utility Groups and went on to win write In Perspective – the Old English Sheepdog, self published in 1983 it was a five Best in Show awards at that level. sell out and has now become a collector’s item. Keith first judged 36 years ago at Open Ten years living on the continent gave him the opportunity to show and judge Show level and in 1977 at Championship throughout Europe, memorable events include achieving a World Champion Show. title when the show was held in Germany and judging at the same show when Currently approved by The Kennel Club held in Austria. Bouvier des Flandres had been added to the kennel and were to award Challenge Certificates in 20 Utility brought back to the UK. ‘It was a great thrill when Bobby James awarded King Breeds and the Utility Group, 7 Pastoral Elke Van Het Molengat at Tuckles the breeds first CC & BOB at Crufts in 1988 Breeds and the Pastoral Group, 4 Working and he quickly became the first Champion in this country.’ Breeds, the Working group and Best in Show. At about the same time Stuart began breeding and exhibiting Tibetan TerriKeith has been fortunate enough to judge severs and several Champions followed. A few other breeds from the Hound, Gun- eral times at Crufts, the first being in 1990 the last dog and Toy groups have been owned and/or bred by Stuart. at Earl’s Court and is looking forward to judging the utilHis first Challenge Certificate appointment was at Blackpool in 1974 and he ity group at Crufts in 2008 and has had the pleasure to judge in the following is currently honoured to also judge two other groups and BIS at championship countries ; level. Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, South Africa, Hungary, LithuaOverseas appointments have taken him throughout Europe, Scandinavia, nia, Latvia, Cyprus, Malta and Ireland. South Africa, East Africa, New Zealand, Australia and the Caribbean. 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Fax 0870 731 6504 Visit the OUR DOGS web site www ourdogs.co.uk COMPLETELY NATURAL RANGE OF DOGFOODS www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 SEE US AT CRUFTS AL CRUFTS SPECI Hall 1 Stand 182 500g LEADER POUCH £1 Plus you get £5 off Coupon applicable to your next purchase of Contact our new UK office Customer Careline for further information & brochure Tel: 01386 552066 Fax: 01386 556720 email: [email protected] UK website: www.redmills.co.uk Always a Winner! 21 22 Crufts Classic 2008 A COMPREHENSIVE study detailing best in shows, reserves, number of entries and the judges. Before 1928 there were no awards for best in show; since that time the following dogs have gained this award. 1928 (9,466 entries): Greyhound PRIMLEY SCEPTRE. MrT. Moorby’s Pointer STAINTON SPECIAL QUALITY.Theo Marples, Major Harding Cox,Will Hally. 1929 (9,682): Robets Chapman’s Scottish Terrier HEATHER NECESSITY. No reserve award. Theo Marples, Major Harding Cox, F. Calvert Butler. 1930 (9,565): H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker Spanier LUCKYSTAR OF WARE. Robert Chapmans Scottish Terrier HEATHER NECESSITY. Mrs H. Fraser, F. Calvert Butler,Theo Marples,A. Croxton Smith, Major Harding Cox. 1931 (9,389): H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker Spaniel LUCKYSTAR OF WARE. Major Harding Cox,Theo Marples,A. Croxton Smith,Walter S. Glynn. 1932 (9,216): Lorna, Countess Howe’s Labrador Retriever BRAMSHAW BOB. Miss B.A. Toft’s Kerry Blue Terrier ANOTHER PRINCE OF THE CHEVIN. Major Harding Cox, A. Croxton Smith, Walter S. Glynn. 1933 (8,564): Lorna, Countess Howe’s Labrador Retriever BRAMSHAW BOB. Major Harding Cox,W.S. Glynn,A. Croxton Smith. 1934 (9,363): B. Hartland Worden’s Greyhound SOUTHALL MOONSTONE. H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker Spaniel WHOOPEE OF WARE. Lorna, Countess Howe, Major Harding Cox,A. Croxton Smith. 1935 (9,130):A. Eggleton’s Pointer PENNINE PRIMA DONNA. Mrs. V.A.M. Mannooch’s Chow Chow CH CHOONAM HUNG KWONG. Major Harding Cox,A. Croxton Smith, Major P.C.G. Hayward. 1936 (10,650): Mrs. V.A.M. Mannooch’s Chow Chow CH CHOONAM HUNG KWONG. H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker Spaniel SILVER TEMPLA OFWARE. Major Harding Coc,A. Croxton Smith, F. Calvert Butler. 1937 (9,949): Lorna Countess Howe’s Labrador Retriever CH CHEVERELL’S BEN OF BANCHORY. Mrs Powys Lybbe’s Elkhound KREN OF THE HOLLOW Major Harding Cox, A. Croxton Smith, Chris Houlkner. 1938 (9,109): H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker Spaniel EXQUISITE MODEL OF WARE. Mr J.V. Rank’s Great Dane CH RULER OF OUBOROUGH. Major P.C.G. Hayward,A. Croxton Smith, Chris Houlkner. 1939 (8,839): H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker Spaniel EXQUISITE MODEL OF WARE Mrs V.A.M. Mannooch’s Chow Chow CH CHOONAM HUNG KWONG Lorna Countess Howe, A. Croxton Smith, Chris Houlkner. 1948 (9,412): H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker SpanielTRACYWITCH OFWARE Ernie Sharpe’sWire FoxTerrier DRAKEHALL DAIRYMAID Mrs May Pacey,A. Croxton Smith. 1949 No Show 1950 (12,319): H.S. Lloyd’s Cocker Spaniel TRACY WITCH OF WARE. Mrs L.H.C. Coventon’s Miniature Poodle CH ADASTRA MAGIC BEAU Leo Wilson,A. Croxton Smith 1951 (11,265): Capt. & Mrs I.M.Thomas’ Welsh Terrier TWYNSTAR DYMA-FI. H.E. Johnson’s Alsatian. EDANA OF COMBEHILL. MrsWinnie Barber,A. Croxton Smith. 1952 (12,448): J.T. Barnard’s Bulldog CH NOWAYS CHUCKLES Miss Jarry’s English Setter RIPLEYGATETOPNOTET. Roger Boulton, A. Croxton Smith 1953 (12,033): Bill Sigger’s Great Dane CH ELCH EDLER OF OUBOROUGH Mrs I.M.Abson’s Afghan Hound CH NETHEROYD ALIBABA Lord Northesk, Mrs Winnie Barber 1954 No Show 1955 (11,869): Mrs A. Proctor’s Standard Poodle CH TZIGANE AGGRI OF NASHEND Mrs L.K. Moore’s PembrokeWelsh Corgi CH KAYTOP MARACAS MIST Air Com. Cecil Wright,T. Roger Boulton 1956 (12,328): Mrs Judy de Casembroot and Miss Bobby Greenish’s Greyhound TREETOPS GOLDEN FALCON P.H. Copley’s Wire Fox Terrier CH CARADOCHOUSE SPRUCE Mrs May Pacey, Mrs Winnie Barber 1957 (12,676): Mrs I.M.Tucker’s Keeshond CHVOLKRIJK OFVORDEN Mrs J. English’s English Setter CH SHIPLAKE DEAN OF CROMBIE The Earl of Northesk,T. Roger Boulton. 1958 (13,085): Mesdames M.M.Thomas and D.M. Leach’sWelshTerrier CH SANDSTORM SARACEN Mr and Mrs Grant Cairn’s Labrador Retriever CH RULER OF BLAIRCOURT The Earl of Northesk, Col Richard Glyn. 1960 (14,297): Mrs Florence Nagle and Miss M. Clark’s Irish Wolfhound SULHAMSTED MERMAN Mrs Gladys Dyke’s Pomeranian PIXIETOWN SERENADE OF HADLEIGH Bert Lloyd, Fred Cross 1961 (15,721): Miss P. McCaughey and Mrs D. Schuth’s Airedale terrier CH RIVERINATWEEDSBAIRN MrsWilliam’s English Setter SILBURY SOAMES OF MADAVALE Mrs Winnie Barber, Joe Braddon 1962 (14,317): H.L. Gill’s Wire Fox Terrier CH CRACKWYN COCKSPUR A.W. Collin’s Cocker Spaniel COLINSWOOD BLACK EAGLE Mrs May Pacey,Vernon Hirst. 1963 (15,205);William Roger’s Lakeland Terrier CH ROGERHOLM RECRUIT Mrs.A.William’s English Setter SH CH SILBURY SOAMES OF MADAVALE Air Com Cecil Wright, Col Sir Richard Glyn 1964 (16,022): Mrs A. Williams’ English Setter SH CH SILBURY SOAMES OF MADAVALE Mrs Hope Waters Saluki CH BURYDOWN FREYHA. Mrs Winnie Barber, Stephen Young. 1965 (15,561): Miss Sonnica Godden’s Alsatian CH FENTON OF KENWOOD, Mrs P. Harris and Leonard Pagliero’s Beagle CH FORRARDON APPELINE BEESWING Air Com Cecil Wright Col Sir www.ourdogs.co.uk roll of honour Richard Glyn 1966 (14,913): Mrs C.E. Perry’s Toy Poodle OAKINGTON PUCKSHILL AMBER SUNBLUSH.W. Baxter’s Pointer SH CH BLAKESHAY AVANT TONT. Bill Siggers, Fred Cross. 1967 (12,320): Mr and Mrs W. Postlethwaite’s Lakeland Terrier CH STINGRAY OF DERRYBAH. Mrs S. Fraser’s Standard Poodle INT CH BIBELOT’S TALL DARK AND HANDSOME.Viscount Chelmsford, Frank Warner Hill 1968 (12,541): Mrs E.J.Woodyatt’s Dalmatian CH FANHILL FAUNE Mr and Mrs Prince’s Pyrenean Mountain Dog CH BERGERIE DIABLE. Mrs Josephine Creasey,Albert Fullwood. 1969 (13,686): Mr and Mrs E.J.White’s Alsatian CH HENDRAWEN’S NIBELUNG OF CHARVIGNE. Miss J. MacMillan’s Cocker Spaniel SH CH LOCHRANZA STROLLAWAY. Maurice C.W. Gilliat, David Roche. 1970 (14,425): Mr and Mrs F.S. Prince’s Pyrenean Mountain Dog BERGERIE KNUR. Mrs J. Caddy’s Cocker Spaniel CH OUAINE CHIEFTAIN. Stanley Dangerfield 1971 (13,726): Prince Ahmed Husain’s Alsatian CH RAMACON SWASHBUCKLER.Thelma Gray’s Longcoat Chihuahua CH ROZAVEL TARINA SONG.Air Com. Cecil Wright. 1972 (10,065): Miss Violet Drummond-Dick’s Bull Terrier CH ABRAXAS AUDACITY. Mrs A.R. Knight’s Whippet CH DONDELAY DUETTE.Arthur Westlake 1973 (11,203): Messrs Hall and Evans Cavalier King Charles Spaniel ALANSMERE AQUARIUS. Mrs Hilda Parkinson’s Pointer SH CH DAVIAM TITUS LARTIUS. Owen Grindey. 1974 (11,824): Miss M. Hinde’s St. Bernard CH BURTONSWOOD BOSSY BOOTS. Mr and Mrs Brian Lister’s Yorkshire Terrier CH BLAIRSVILLE MOST ROYALE. Mrs Judy de Casembroot. 1975 (11,860): Messrs Benelli and Dondina’s Wire Fox Terrier CH BROOKSWIRE BRANDY OF LAYVEN. Mr D. Shaw’s Bulldog CH BEECHLYN GOLDEN NUGGET OF DENBROUGH. Mrs Thelma Gray. 1976 (13,354): Mrs K. Newstead’s West Highland White Terrier CH DIANTHUS BUTTONS. Mrs D. Clarke’s Maltrese CH MAYTHEAS DELILA. Joe Braddon 1977 (12,329): Mr G. William’s English Setter BOURNEHOUSE DANCING MASTER. Mrs Lisa Attwood Parker’s Kerry Blue Terrier CH BINATE PLANTAGENET. Mrs Catherine Sutton. 1978 (13,165): Miss E. Howle’sWire FoxTerrier CH HARROWHILL HUNTSMAN. Mr and Mrs Brian Lister’s Yorkshire Terrier CH BLAIRSVILLE ROYAL SEAL. Mrs Gwen Broadley Photo courtesy of Kennel Club Picture Library ● Best in show at the 1966 show was Mrs Clare E Perry’s Toy Poodle Oakington Puckshill Amber Sunblush. This year Mrs Perry - now Mrs Clare Coxall - will judge best in show 1979 (10,619): Mrs Wendy Streatfield’s Kerry Blue Terrier ENG & AM CH CALLAGHAN OF LEANDER. Mrs C. Murray’s Smoothcoat Chihuahua CH BELMURIZ BREVIER. L.C. James. 1980 (11,914): Miss Pat Chapman’s Flatcoat Retriever CH SHARGLEAM BLACKCAP. Mr and Mrs F. Morley’s Miniature Schnauzer CH CASTILLA LINAJUDO. Harry Glover 1981 (12,312): Miss C.H. and Mrs M. Tuite’s Irish Setter CH ASTLEY’S PORTIA OF RUA. Mrs H. Stanley’s Standard Poodle SABLECOMB WHITE POLAR AT LEANDER. Bobby James. 1982 (12,090): Mrs Lesley Howard’s Toy Poodle CH GRAYCO HAZELNUT. Mrs S. Gardener’s German Shepherd Dog BELLISIMA OF DANALA. Reg Gadsden. 1983 (10,981): Mrs Pauline Gibb’s Afghan Hound CH MONTRAVIA KASKARAK HITARI. Mrs B. Levick’s Irish Setter CORRIECAS FAGAN. Bill Parkinson. 1984 (12,215): Mrs Jean Blyth’s Lhasa Apso CH SAXONSPRINGS HACKENSACK. Mrs Averil Cawthera’s Pomeranian CH LIREVA’S SHOOTING STAR. Mrs Mollie Garrish. 1985 (13,075): Miss Marita Gibb’s Standard Poodle CH MONTRAVIA TOMMY GUN. Mrs J. Mitchell’s Pekingese CH MICKLEE ROC’S RU-AGO. Dr Harold Spira. 1986 (13,826): Mrs A. Liveraghi’s Airedale Terrier CH GINGER XMAS CAROL. Messrs Bruton & McHale’s Bulldog CH TYEGARTH JACOB OF KELLOE. Mrs Ena Bassett. 1987 (17,059): Mr and Mrs Chris Amoo’s Afghan Hound CH VISCOUNT GRANT. Mrs E. Baxter’sWire FoxTerrier CH KILLICK OF THE MESS. Bill Pinches. 1988 (18,222): MrsV.Watkin’s English Setter SH CH STARLITE EXPRESS OF VALSETT Messrs Macpherson and Hutchinson’s Border Terrier CH BRANNIGAN OF BRUMBERHILL. Gp Capt A.G. Sutton. 1989 (16,015): Mrs B. White’s Bearded Collie CH POTTERDALE CLASSIS OF MOONHILL. Messrs Easdon and Martin’s Pekingese CH YAKEE FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. Mr L.G. Hamilton Renwick. 1990 (16,315): Mr. D.Tattersall’sW.H.W.T. CH OLAC MOONPILOT. Miss E. Newton’s Whippet CH NUTSHELL OF NEVEDITH. Mrs F. Somerfield. 1991 (25,227): Mr R. Dunne’s Clumber Spaniel SH CH RAYCROFT SOCIALITE. Mrs Scovell’s Papillon CH CASWELL COPPER TIGER. Mr Leonard Pagliero. 1992 (21,350): Miss M. Bolton’s Whippet CH PENCLOE DUTCH GOLD. Mr M. Bottomley’s Am Cocker AM SH CH HOMESTEADS TIFFANY WITH BODUF. Mrs Ann Argyle. 1993 (21,229): Mrs J. Lorrimer’s Irish Setter SH CH DANAWAY DEBONAIR. Mrs Z. Thorn-Andrew’s Irish Wolfhound CH DRAKESLEAT ODYT. Mr Tom Horner. 1994 (21,200): Mrs A. Maughan’s Welsh Terrier CH PURSTON HIT AND MISS FROM BROCOLITIA. Mr and Mrs J. Richie’s Border Collie SH CH DYKEBAR FUTURE GLORY. Mr Ken Bullock 1995 (20,353): Miss Rachel Shaw’s Irish Setter Sh Ch STARCHELLE CHICAGO BEAR. Mrs B J Halliwell’s Welsh Terrier Ch LEADING LADY AT WIGMORE. Mr George Down. 1996 (21,423) Mrs Tricia Bentley’s Cocker Spaniel Sh Ch CANIGOU CAMBRAI. Miss G Coxall’s Airedale Terrier Ch JOKYL THIS IS MY SONG. Mr Harry Jordan. 1997 (20,469) Mr Osman Sameja’s Yorkshire Terrier Ch OZMILION MYSTIFICATION. Miss G Oake and Mr Mike Gadsby’s American Cocker Sh Ch BODUF PISTOLS AT DAWN WITH AFTERGLOW. Mr Terry Thorn. 1998 (20,692): Mrs Judy Averis and Mr David Scawthorn’s Welsh Terrier CH. SAREDON FOREVER YOUNG. Mrs K. Bolan’s Chow Chow TOWSUSHET’S THE MISSTRESS. Mr Leslie Page. 1999 (21,503): Mrs Jackie Lorrimer’s Irish Setter SH CH CASPIANS INTREPID. Mr & Mrs D Killilea’s Japanese Akita Ch/Nor Ch REDWITCH DANCIN IN THE DARK. Mrs Liz Cartledge. 2000 (21,643): Mr Ron Ramsay’s Kerry Blue Terrier CH TORUMS SCARF MICHAEL. Halkett’s Cocker Spaniel SH CH WIJANA WATER FALL. Mr Ellis Hulme. 2001 (21,554): Mr Paul Singleton’s Basenji CH. JEDHARD CIDEVANT. Mrs Blance’s Pembroke Welsh Corgi CH PENLAITH SHOOTING STAR. Mrs Ann Arch 2002 (22,243): Stein and Kari Glenna’s Standard Poodle NOR CH TOPSCORE CONTRADICTION. Messrs. Easdon and Martin’s Pekingese CHYAKEE A DANGEROUS LIAISON. Mrs Pamela Cross Stern. 2003 (22,428): Bert Easdon and Philip Martin’s Pekingese CH YAKEE A DANGEROUS LIAISON. Ron Ramsay’s Kerry Blue Terrier CH TORUM’S BLUE BAYOU. Mr Albert Wight 2004 (21,622): Mrs L Yacoby-Wright’s Whippet CH COBYCO CALL THE TUNE. Miss Jane Miller’s Scottish Terrier CH RAGLAN ROSE MAIDEN AT BRIO. Mrs Margaret Everton 2005 (21,432): P, S & E Beale, Ingram & Matell’s Norfolk Terrier AM CH/CH CRACKNO CAUSE CELEBRE. Mrs Anne Webster’s English Setter SH CH BOURNEHOUSE ROYAL COLOURS. Ms Jean Lanning 2006 (24,640): Ms N Resetar’s Australian Shepherd Dog AM CH CAITLAND ISLE TAKE A CHANCE. Mrs B & Mr P Decker & Davies’ Wire Fox Terrier CH/AM CH SNOWTAIRE ICENI PAYBACK (imp). Mrs Brenda Banbury. 2007 (24,946): Mr Neil Smith & Mr John Shaw’s Tibetan Terrier CH/AM CH ARAKI FABULOUS WILLY. Mesdames Browne-Cole & Allen’s Wire Fox Terrier CH TRAVELLA SHOW STOPPER. Mrs Zena Thorn-Andrews. www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 OVERHILL KENNELS AND EXPORTS PET TRAVEL Visit us at Stand 82 Hall 4 • Exports to Destinations all over the World • Crate Supply • All Documentation Arranged • Competitive Quotes • We have many years of experience in pets and how they should travel • Quarantine Accommodation Flight booking with all airlines. We are the South West Agents for: Continental Airlines, My Travel and Thomson Fly. We can now offer a comprehensive service for animals travelling tot eh UK under the Pet Passport Scheme, including collection from destination airport and delivery to your home. Visit the Stand to see our wide range of products including: whelping beds, Meg beds, wheel covers, seat covers, dog coats - all types, dog boots, dribble bibs, aprons, suit covers and much more. All enquiries to Overhill Kennels, Norton Lane, Pensford, Bristol BS39 4EY Tel: 01275 832489 Fax: 01275 831991 Web: www.overhill.co.uk Email: [email protected] 23 24 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Delamere’s healthy treat that dogs love! FOR DECADES, top breeders have fed their puppies and dogs on goats’ milk and have reaped the benefits in doing so. Most dogs love the taste of milk, but can face digestive problems with ordinary cows’ milk. Enter Top Life Formula…goats’ milk with added extras. The innovative range of treats for dogs and puppies, has a goats’ milk base with added ingredients and vitamins for a boost to their health. Dogs thrive on goats’ milk because it’s so digestible. The fat and protein molecules are much smaller and have thinner membranes so pass through the body more easily. Easier digestion of the fat and protein allows lactose to pass through the system more rapidly not giving it time to ferment in the intestinal tract which can cause sickness and diarrhoea. Similar symptoms occur in humans who are intolerant to cows’ milk. As well as the goats’ milk, Top Life Formula for Dogs contains glucosamine, chondroitin and green tea extract to encourage healthy joints and bones, good circulation and general well-being. There is also a little beef flavouring to titillate their taste buds. Top Life Formula for Puppies is specially formulated with added cream to make the fat levels as close as possible to the natural composition of the mother’s milk to help with weaning. Both milks are formulated to include Vitamins C & E to support the immune system - vital during their early days while they’re susceptible to infections and during their vaccination period. Roger Sutton from Delamere Dairy, whose creativity sparked the development of the Top Life range commented, “Using goat’s milk was a logical solution to finding a nutritious base for the formula. Breeders have been successfully feeding their dogs and puppies with goats’ milk for generations as it is so digestible.” Top Life Formula can be fed as often as the pet desires, either on its own or mixed with solid food. Available in 200ml cartons from Asda, selected Tesco and Morrisons (Dog milk only) supermarkets, it has a RRP of 58p. For more information on the Top Life Formula ranges, please call 01565 750576. 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Here we introduce you to some who you will see around the rings this year, learn a bit about them and ask.... ‘what’s your favourite photo?’ John D Jackson ALTHOUGH John Jackson was brought up among horses all he ever wanted was a dog of his own. When he was eleven his parents bought him a black labrador bitch and his subsequent love of the breed has lasted a lifetime. He originally qualified and worked as a mining engineer in the coal industry but left just prior to privatisation at the end of 1994. He then went back to college to study professional photography for two years. Because he and his wife Eileen had been involved in dog showing and breeding for some years he decided to set up in business as a professional dog photographer and was subsequently invited to cover shows for OUR DOGS which he has done for the last 12 years Apart from dog photography he have been involved in other ways for many years as a committee member of the Three Ridings Labrador Club and President of Huddersfield Canine Association. He has judged for several years and will be awarding CCs in Labradors for the first time later on this year at Driffield. He now spends a great deal of my time working as Photography Manager for OUR DOGS which involves organising and co-ordinating the superior photographic coverage offered by the paper When he is not involved with dogs he loves to watch Huddersfield Town, he also used to play cricket. His other great love is the theatre. OUR DOGS asked John to choose a favourite photo. ‘I have hundreds of dogs in show pose but my favourite is this photo of two of our own labradors’, said John. ‘It's one I took for the Discover Dogs stand at Crufts a few years ago.The two dogs are mother and daughter but sadly Sophie the black mother of Alice died last year. I think it just captures the spirit of everything I love about dogs - I hope you agree’. William Moores Bill Moores, photographer and Consultant Editor to OUR DOGS will attend his 40th successive Crufts show this year. Associated with the paper since 1967 he first took photos for OUR DOGS in 1973 but in recent years, since 2005 stepping down from 'the editor's chair' which he occupied for 18 years, he has specialised in providing high quality digital images for the UK based canine press, trade advertisers as well as having breeder clients in this country and overseas. In the early 1970s he became a member of the British Association of Industrial Editors and was awarded its diploma a section of which demanded study and practical application of photographic skills. He later gained the qualification MCB (dip). In 1992 he wrote the book Dogs: A Guide to Pedigree Breeds illustrated by top photographer Paddy Cutts and published by Sunburst Books in the UK and the USA. The book was subsequently reprinted in 1994. He has represented OUR DOGS at events in Eire, Europe and the USA and likes to combine his knowledge of what an Editor looks for in a photo with satisfying the requirements of proud owners. He tells us he loves to work to tight deadlines and appreciates that modern technology has facilitated this. His favourite photo from his extensive library and shown below was taken at Crufts of the group winning Bouvier from Belgium. 'To me whilst not colourful it is a subtle illustration of handler and dog in harmony', said Bill. Combining his love of the mountains with photography he walked the West Highland Way from Glasgow to Fort William - 100 miles in six days with Kennel Club Charitable Trust trustee Bill King in 2004 together raising over £4000 for the trust. A past president of the Midland Association of Mountaineers his landscape and mountain photography has won awards in national magazine competitions. Alan Seymour Alan was born in London in 1957 and grew up in Surrey before moving up to the North West in his late teens. He now lives in Preston, Lancashire and has been taking photographs of various subjects for over thirty years. He completed his City & Guilds in basic photography and natural history both passed with distinctions in 1999. His hobbies are wildlife photography and one day he hopes to go to India to photograph wild Tigers. This is his sixth year as an OUR DOGS official photographer and he enjoys being part of the team. He tells us that he has met and and made friends with a lot of nice people and their dogs whilst working on behalf of OUR DOGS and hopes to continue in the future. Alan V. Walker Serena Robinson LRPS LBPPA Serena took my first photograph at the age of four and photography has been a lifelong hobby ever since. In 1994 she developed RSI rendering her permanently disabled and she was “retired” by her employers. She studied several animal psychology courses, took a PGCE degree having written several courses and is now a tutor for the Animal Care College. This enforced situation gave her an opportunity to consider what she really wanted to do – simply to work with animals. She is too sensitive to work in a veterinary environment so she started “Home from Home” Pet Care Service. However the work was intermittent and in 2002 she expanded her business by launching Digi-Pet Portraits, (www.digi-petportraits.co.uk) having photographed her pets over the years it seemed a logical progression. She was aware of the dog show world and in 2004 she sent a portfolio of images to OUR DOGS for consideration, in the summer of that year her first photograph was published in OUR DOGS. Later that year she sent a panel of pet images to the Royal Photographic Society and in November 2004 gained a Licentiate. In 2006 she was asked to photograph a wedding as a direct result of photographing dogs, and this side of her business is steadily growing (www.serenarobinson.co.uk). March 2007 was an incredible month, she was approached by my local newspaper The Ross Gazette to photograph for them on a regular basis and having covered many Open Society and Single Breed Championship Shows was asked to attend Crufts for the first time “officially” photographing the events in the YKC ring - it is a huge honour to be an OUR DOGS photographer and is something of which she is immensely proud. She says she is so lucky in that she loves what she does, if she hadn’t developed RSI she would not be where she is now, photographing at Crufts! It just shows with determination you can achieve anything! Her favourite photo is of her ‘girls’ - probably not her best she says but it is a favourite. Chloe is a Border Collie/Labrador X and is 12, Sophie is a Whippet/Jack Russell X and is 15 - they are her life and she says she would love to see their image in OUR DOGS - so here they are! Alan V Walker has been taking professional photographs of dogs since the early eighties and has been an official OUR DOGS photographer from 1985, making him one of the most experienced full-time canine photographers currently working in the UK. His work is regularly seen in OUR DOGS and been published in all the front running canine publications, including web sites and hard backed books. At some point in his career, each of the major dog food manufactures has commissioned Alan as well as a couple of family owned pharmaceutical companies and of course Dogs Monthly. Also during the last 20 odd years he considers himself privileged to have photographed some of dogdom's finest and most famous dogs. With fellow professional canine photographers John Jackson, William Moores and John Hartley, Alan has a web site: www.k9photographers.co.uk.. Essentially this is an information only site. Please note that personally commissioned work or recent dog shows will not be featured, as he prefers to send out proofs the old-fashioned way through the post. This will be Alan’s twentieth consecutive Crufts as an official OUR DOGS photographer and is looking forward to meeting and literally rubbing shoulders with some of the world’s best. However, Alan is not just at Crufts, he also covers numerous show around the UK. 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BREED R ET R I E V E NAME OF BITCH SEND AWAY Second day Friday March 7th DISTANCE CONTROL www.ourdogs.co.uk H EE L W O R K 28 www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 29 30 A Now the good Crufts Classic 2008 REN’T YOU just by Nick Mays heartily sick of Chief reporter those headlines about the latest attack on a human being by a so-called ‘dangerous’ dog? The way the media want more breeds to be banned? Or how about when some puffed-up local politician – usually some non-entity of a councillor - starts prattling on about how the Council should introduce No-Go areas for dogs because there’s dog poo everywhere and as everyone knows, dog poo can blind children? Obviously all dog owners are totally irresponsible, that’s why there must be restrictions on council tenants owning dogs, so doesn’t it make your blood boil when a local authority introduces a ban on dog ownership in council premises, even for those people who still have dogs and haven’t caused any problem? Then, of course, at this time of year, in the run-up to Crufts, all those smart-alec, anti-dog, anti-dog showing articles start to appear in the paper, so-called ‘funny’ pundits on TV and radio start belittling the whole event. So whenever there’s a photograph of a dog exhibitor it’s done a-la Trainspotter – it’s usually some old biddy with a silly hat, baggy tights and a poodle with ribbons in its pom-pom. All dog people are weird aren’t they? Of course, this dog showing lark is so un-natural and the dogs absolutely hate it. Of course, they can’t walk or breathe properly because they’ve all got hereditary defects. And the owners probably have too. Well – that’s what a ‘TV Vet’ says, so it must be true. After all, the TV Vet was on the telly five or six years ago and wrote a book about it.Those dog people just don’t care, do they? As for dogs, well – that nice animal rights organisation that all the movie stars subscribe to say that pet keeping is unnatural anyway.As for dogs themselves, what good are they to Mankind? Come to that, if there have to be dogs in society, what good do we do them? In a word: Aaaarrrggghhh! Listen, you probably know this anyway, because you love dogs, you read OUR DOGS so you know what you’re doing dog-wise, but dogs have truly been Man’s Best Friend for well over 10,000 years, possibly longer. It’s arguable that because Cro-Magnon Man tamed and trained wolves that this gave him the edge on hunting game over Neanderthal Man and thus survived to become the dominant human species… thanks to dogs! But let’s just remind ourselves about some good things about dogs and, even better, some good things that are happening for dogs nowadays… Workers united First of all, dogs have always had a working role in our society. True, there aren’t as many carriage dogs seen on the streets these days, but Dalmatians are always popular. There’s still thousands of working dogs, such as Foxhounds, Beagles, Harriers… whatever your political views on hunting, they’re quite an awesome sight, working together as a team. Still with the rural theme, Border Collies work tirelessly in all weathers as Sheepdogs. www.ourdogs.co.uk On a slightly more urban footing, police dogs are always in Year of the service, and it’s not just the usual GSDs, (although a lot of those Assistance Dog are coming from overseas an being bred ‘in-house’ by police forces across the UK). There’s also Belgian Shepherd Malinois, In fact, five charities have announced plans to designate 2008 and of course Drugs, Firearms and Explosive Sniffer Dogs in various breeds.And for traditional tracking duties, Bloodhounds Year of the Assistance Dog, campaigning for the rights of guide dog and other assistance dog users. are even making a comeback! Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs, Dogs for the Disabled, Canine Other breeds can make the grade too - in January of this year, Central Scotland Police paid tribute to a six-year-old Rottweiler Partners and Support Dogs will work together as Assistance named Mac, who joined the force in 2003, but sadly had to be Dogs UK (ADUK) to promote rights of access to services for guide dog and other assistance dog users. put to sleep due to inoperable cancer. Guide dog and other assistance dog users will nominate During his time with the retailers, leisure facilities, public force Mac was instrumental in premises, parks and transport catching 206 criminals and those smart-alec, anti-dog, anti-dog operators for Dog Stars, locating 31 missing people and providing service providers recovering £69,000 of stolen showing articles start to appear in the with an incentive to make their property. premises assistance dog Handler Pc Jonathan Inglis paper, so-called ‘funny’ pundits on TV friendly. described him as a great Dog Star Awards will be ambassador for the Rottweiler and radio start belittling the whole event. symbols of service excellence, breed. Mac’s achievements given in recognition that come as a welcome So whenever there’s a photograph of a premises and services meet the counterpoint to all the recent bad publicity directed at the dog exhibitor it’s done a-la Trainspotter – needs of all guide and assistance dog users. For breed and whipped up by the it’s usually some old biddy with a silly example, provision of Braille mainstream media following a menus for blind and partiallysmall number of unrelated hat, baggy tights and a poodle with sighted people, induction loops incidents. Mac was taken to the vet ribbons in its pom-pom. All dog people for customers with hearing impairment, wheelchair access, after developing a limp and was and of course - water bowls for are weird aren’t they?..” diagnosed with cancer just assistance dogs! after the new year. He was put In fact, even Number 10 to sleep on 16 January. Downing Street received a Dog Mac was found as a stray wandering in an industrial estate in Falkirk in 2003 and taken to a pound.When no one claimed him Star Award in recognition of its accessibility for guide and he was taken to the Dog Section at Central Scotland Police and assistance dog users. There’s good news too that a new EU law that will improve air placed with Pc Inglis and his family. He distinguished himself during his police training in travel for disabled people, including those who use assistance Strathclyde in 2003, being named best dog on the course. Mac Dogs, are coming into effect in the UK over the next 12 months. Under the new rules, airlines and holiday companies will no attended 1,785 calls throughout the force area during his career. Pc Inglis said: ‘Mac was a fantastic police dog and a great longer be able to refuse to fly people because of their disability. The European Disability Forum hailed the move was a ‘key ambassador for the Rottweiler breed. ‘Together we apprehended hundreds of people, recovered date’ for disabled people. British Labour MEP Robert Evans - who campaigned for the thousands of pounds of stolen property and more importantly adoption of the measures by the European Parliament - says found a lot of missing persons, in some instances saving lives. ‘Mac was an exceptional dog when at home with my family seven million people will be affected. ‘It's incredible that people with reduced mobility have suffered and I. He was placid, gentle, very sociable and was part of the family. He will be missed greatly by a lot of people, but most of neglect and maltreatment in airports as recently as 2007,’ said Mr Evans. ‘Some UK airports have put in place admirable all he will be missed by me’. “... A PAT on the back… and the head Scientific studies have shown time and again that pet ownership is good for people, and quite apart from the physical exercise that comes with owning the dog, there’s the stress relief factor too, which is why Pets As Therapy Dogs – or PAT Dogs as they are better known – have been doing such a grand job for the past 25 years. They cheer up elderly and infirm residents at homes or patients in hospitals. Then there’s Assistance Dogs. Guide Dogs being the obvious examples, but nowadays you’ll find more breeds than just Labradors, Golden Retrievers and German Shepherds leading the way; there’s Weimaraners, Newfoundlands, Poodles and a couple of Labradoodles on the books too. Let’s not forget Hearing Dogs and of course Assistance Dogs – as typified by the undisputed star of Canine Partners charity, Labrador Endal, with his human partner Allen Parton. Allen and Endal’s partnership is well known. Allan, a naval officer, was severely injured in the first Gulf War and was confined to a wheelchair, with severe loss of memory – he couldn’t remember his wife Sandra or their children and as a result he became depressed and bad tempered. Endal, meanwhile, was proving to be a handful as a trainee Assistance dog and was likely to be rejected as suitable for the job. But when he met Allan at a day centre, the two just clicked and an indomitable partnership was born. Allan’s depression lifted and he began to take an interest in life and fell in love with Sandra, Endal settled down to be a loyal and hard-working companion, and he was, of course, Best Man’s Best Friend at Allen and Sandra’s second wedding. Just for good measure, Endal saved Allen’s life. When visiting Crufts dog show in 2001, Allen was knocked out of his wheelchair by a speeding car and left unconscious in a car park.The driver was in a deep state of shock, so Endal took charge and pulled Allen into the recovery position, covered him with a blanket and fetched his mobile phone. Getting no response Endal then left Allen’s side and went to a near by hotel and raised the alarm. Small wonder then that Endal has been showered with awards Photo by William Moores ● PAT Dog of the Year 2007 ‘Bryn’ with his owner Sue Yates (left) from over the years including the prestigious Gold Medal Award from the Wirral pictured with Tony Parkinson, Managing Director of Hi Life the PDSA, the peacetime equivalent of the charity’s Dicken Medal Foods which sponsor the competition and Valery McConnell editor of for animal heroism.And they’re still a great team to this day! ‘Yours’ magazine PAT Dogs media partner for 2007 Police, camera, action! TWO POLICE dogs are to be fitted with cameras after a l o c a l businessman donated £6,000 to the Lancashire force to kit the dogs out. The dogs are trained to help during armed sieges and wear miniature television cameras with transmitters fitted to their heads or harnesses. These can alert officers to suspects hiding in a building, its layout and whether or not anyone is armed. The ‘FidoCam’worn by the dogs wirelessly transmits audio and video back to a hand-held monitor for officers to view. It can also be used to search buildings in the dark, with infrared imaging. The Firearms Intervention and Dangerous Operations (Fido) cameras were funded by Preston businessman Ilyas Ahmed. Sgt Phil Kenyon, of Lancashire Constabulary's Police Dog Training Unit, said: ‘We have used earlier versions of the Fido system for some years with notable success but the technology behind it is progressing at a tremendous pace. ‘Mr Ahmed's involvement in the project means that we can equip our dogs and their handlers with state of the art cameras to make the hazardous work of our Specialist Firearms Teams that bit easier. There is no doubt in my mind that Mr Ahmed's kind gesture will go some way towards making life for the people of our communities even safer’. news about dogs www.ourdogs.co.uk Two dogs at war - past and present measures to assist people - and I welcome these efforts - but voluntary agreements are not a proper substitute for the law.’ ‘We're delighted with the new EU regulations,’ said Tom Pey, Director of Public Policy at Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. ‘We're also looking forward to the introduction of the requirement that will prevent airlines from refusing to carry guide dogs in the cabin with their owners, which will be implemented in July 2008.’ You Can’t Keep That Dog ‘Ere… Oh yes we can, said the defiant pet owning council tenants of Nottingham City Council won their fight against a sneaky revision to their tenancy agreements which would have restricted the number of pets they can keep in their homes. A new tenancy agreement which is due to come into effect at the end of February, has dropped its draconian clause which limited pets to just one cat or one dog per household. Since September 2007 when pet owners discovered the poorly publicised, proposed change to their tenancy – reported previously in OUR DOGS – they launched a fight-back campaign which included extensive media coverage on the Internet, TV and radio, as well as an online petition, many letters and around 130 calls to the council, all of which finally persuaded Nottingham City Council to revert to its old rules. Campaign Co-ordinator Michelle Morgan told OUR DOGS: ‘Well, we have won. They are leaving the tenancy agreement unchanged and maintaining the status quo as far as that clause is concerned. So, tenants are still not allowed cat and dogs in flats or maisonettes, but they can keep as many as is reasonably practicable in a house.’ The tenants’ victory will no doubt act as an inspiration for council tenant in other parts of the UK who are also fighting intransigent, anti-dog plans by Town Hall mandarins. When will they ever learn that all people want is their bins to be emptied regularly and their drains to be clear? Leave the dogs alone! On the Hustings Of course, not all politicians are anti-dog and the Scottish Parliament proves to be a good case in point. This year, they are consulting on a new Dog Care Code to ensure that dog owners put their pets’ welfare first. Okay, it does smack of meddling, but as long as the politicians actually listen to what genuine dog experts tell them, then it won’t be a ‘one size fits all’ piece of legislation. In fact, in 2007, Scotland showed the way again by holding its first ever Animal Welfare Hustings – and possibly the first of its kind anywhere in the UK ahead of the Scottish Parliamentary Elections last Spring. The hustings took place at the Lesser Albert Hall in Stirling and were chaired by international animal welfare expert Dr Michael Appleby of the World Society for the Protection of Animals, (WSPA). Several MSPs and prospective MSPs attended and answered questions. Animal welfare has been a key issue for many of the parties involved in the Scottish elections. Three of the parties contesting seats – the Greens, Liberal Democrats and Scottish Socialists – all devoted sections of their election manifestos to animal welfare issues, whilst several of the other parties’ manifestos contained references to better protection for wildlife and farm animals. The evening got under way with a full house, indicating the sheer strength of public feeling for animal welfare issues. Topics that were raised and discussed included issues such as snaring and farming procedures, whilst companion animals took up a great part of the debate. When the meeting concluded after nearly two hours, a final question was asked from the floor which summed up the depth of feeling and positive attitudes involved: ‘When can we have another meeting like this one?’ Animal welfare and pet ownership in general is clearly a strong issue in the minds of voters – perhaps MPs in the political parties at Westminster – and indeed in local councils across the UK – would do well to take this point on board. Perhaps by the time the next General Election comes round, voters will have the chance to ask prospective MPs similar questions and emulate the excellent example being set in Scotland. After all, politicians would do well to remember that there are over six million dogs in the UK… and at the end of every lead there is a voter! Now that’s what I call a lead in the opinion polls! A d o p t i o n D r i ve Proof that big business can have a human – or canine – face came in January when pet food giant Pedigree Masterfoods launched a canine Adoption Drive initiative in the UK, taking the company into another area of emphasis after its shock decision last summer to withdraw sponsorship of UK dog shows. Whilst retaining its position as Crufts’ main sponsor, in August Pedigree told the Kennel Club that it had decided to withdraw ● Beauty, the original Search and Rescue Dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, with her handler Bill Barnett ● Sadie, the British Forces Explosive Sniffer Dog who detected a bomb in Afghanistan, saving the lives of dozens of service personnel Crufts Classic 2008 31 can make a huge difference to the lives of homeless dogs in the UK today.’ And Even More Canine Heroes The UK’s largest dog welfare charity, the Dogs Trust, proudly announced the winners of the first ever Dogs Trust Honours – dubbed ‘the Doggy Pride of Britain’. The results were revealed earlier this month at a star-studded ceremony at London’s Guildhall. The Honours were set up to recognise the nation’s canine heroes – those dogs who have gone the extra mile for their owners. The ceremony was attended by celebrity guests including Graham Norton, Martin Freeman and Jennie Bond – though the real stars of the show were the dogs themselves. 17 dogs from across the UK were shortlisted for five different award categories: Quality of Life, Hero Dog, Lifetime Achievement, Triumph Over Adversity and the Pickles Award for outstanding canine endeavours. The charity’s Chief Executive Clarissa Baldwin commented: ‘This is the first year the charity has run the Dogs Trust Honours, and all the finalists’ moving stories made it an incredible evening: by the end, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Now I just hope even more people enter their own canine heroes for next year’s awards, and make sure they get the recognition they deserve!’ Hear! Hear! In fact, let’s have better recognition for ALL dogs, and let’s hope this year brings even more good news for dogs, because they really are Man’s Best Friend… and long may they remain so! Endal has this stamp business licked finance from all other Championship Dog Shows after nearly 40 years of sponsorship. At the same time, the company announced the expansion of its US and Australian Dog Adoption Drive with a £3.6 million campaign in the UK. For every Pedigree product sold, the brand will donate money, aiming to raise up to £500,000 in the first three months of the campaign. Fronted by a high profile television personality - the identity of whom is yet to be announced - Pedigree says it will create nationwide consumer awareness via TV advertising, press, radio, outdoor poster sites, direct mail, in-store point of sale, promotional deals, and PR activity including large scale consumer events. The campaign will be the biggest ever brand initiative for Pedigree and the first time it has used packaging in the UK to carry a campaign message across the majority of the items in its range. The Kennel Club Charitable Trust, (TKCCT), which has itself donated over £3 million to a wide range of animal welfare organisations and charities, will be the distribution vehicle for all monies raised from the campaign. The Kennel Club funds all running costs of TKCCT so, says Pedigree, every penny donated will go directly to help homeless dogs. Angie Phillips, Mars Pet Food Trade Relations Manager commented: ‘This is a huge campaign for Pedigree and one that we believe passionately about. Pedigree believes that every dog deserves a loving home and the new Pedigree Adoption Drive campaign will raise not only money but also awareness of this important issue. Retailers can really get behind this incredible campaign in a number of ways, whether it be taking advantage of the amazing in-store displays and offers available from Pedigree or donating money themselves. ‘The campaign will have huge visibility across the UK from TV ● ENDAL, the Dog of the Millennium, launches the series of new Working Dog postage stamps by posting and radio to press and outdoor the first one released (12-year-old Endal is still the only dog to be able to perform this feat). This famous advertising and with the full Canine Partner is due to make his record 11th appearance at Crufts, along with owner Allen Parton support of retailers Pedigree 32 Crufts Classic 2008 Pedigree unveils its biggest and best appearance yet at Crufts 2008 PEDIGREE, the principal supporter of Crufts, will be unveiling its most celebrity packed and entertaining stand yet at the world’s greatest dog show, on the 6 – 9 March at the NEC, Birmingham. Located in Hall Three, the stand will feature amazing performances from some of the canine worlds’ top stars, from TV celebrities, celebrity vets, heel work to music and behavioural experts - the stand will be buzzing non-stop with activity over the four days. www.ourdogs.co.uk Pedigree kicks off the show on Thursday with an appearance from ‘Men Behaving Badly’ star and renowned dog lover Neil Morrissey. Neil will be on hand, along with his faithful sidekick and much-loved adopted pet Tiggy in support of the Pedigree Adoption Drive. The Pedigree Adoption Drive aims to raise awareness and provide support for hundreds of thousands of homeless dogs in the UK, and encourage more people to give these unlucky dogs a loving home. Also on hand to answer any and all of your canine queries, will be Scott Miller, celebrity resident vet from This Morning.Together with his adorable Border Terrier Betty, Scott will be mingling with the crowds, combining his knowledge and expertise to provide a one-stop shop for those wanting vet tips, dog welfare advice and insights into how to improve your relationship with your dog. Scott, supported by Pedigree, will also be offering one lucky winner a chance to win a years’ supply of dog food with the daily interactive quiz. The entertainment does not stop there, with more famous faces from the canine world joining Pedigree on the stand.These will include Mary Ray, one of the leading dog trainers in the UK, Gwen Bailey, pioneer in understanding the importance of dog behaviour in the rehoming of unwanted animals and Kath Hardman, accompanied by her famous and award winning dogs. Each will bring their own special and unique qualities to the Pedigree stand, providing an educational and entertaining experience and giving you a chance to pick their brains and get first-hand advice and valuable insights into your dog. The UK Fire Service Search and Rescue dog teams will also return this year to give audiences a unique insight into their outstanding rescue work at UK and International disaster areas. Finally, for the first time ever, Pedigree will wrap up their presence at this year’s Crufts by hosting a live charity auction with items from celebrity supporters including Martin Freeman, Jilly Cooper, Paul O’Grady and Lorraine Kelly to name a few. All proceeds will go towards supporting the Pedigree Adoption Drive and will be distributed by the Kennel Club Charitable Trust. Useful information General information: Crufts main Information Centre is situated opposite the entrances to Halls 3 and 3a. Please note that unfortunately NO DOGS other than those that have been invited by the Kennel Club are permitted into the show. Arena seating: Admission tickets now include Arena seating for up to 6,000 visitors. Apart from the Best in Show programme which requires an additional ticket and subject to availability. Bank: National Westminster Bank Plc has a branch situated on the Piazza at the NEC. For opening hours, please contact the bank directly. Creche: A children's crèche will be available during the show. All lost children should be taken to, or collected from, the children's crèche. Cloakroom: Situated in the Piazza at the NEC near the main entrance. Luggage can also be left at them. Discover Dogs: Over 190 different breeds of pedigree dog to get better acquainted with in the Discover Dogs area. Export enquiries: The Overseas Lounge or the Kennel Club main information stand are able to deal with all export enquiries. Filming & photography: Commercial cinematography and television equipment may only be used at Crufts if a permit has been issued by the Organisers. There are also certain restrictions on the use of cameras for still photography and private video films. Full details of these and filming permits may be obtained from the Press Office, Crufts, 1-5 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London W1J 8AB. Postal facilities: The Royal Mail post office is situated on the Piazza at the NEC. Prams: Prams or push-chairs may be admitted and wheeled around the Show. The Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry to prams or push-chairs if it is felt that the Halls are overcrowded. Press centre: The Crufts press centre is situated in the Toute Suite in front of the main doors at the NEC and facilities are available to accredited press only. Restaurants: Several restaurants will be open to the public during the opening hours of the show. Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Hall 3 Crufts Stand 44 RABART FOR FINE ART Visit the stand and view our latest ranges and established best sellers. We are sole UK agents for the Eve Pearce and Chapman’s Dog Sculptures Chapman’s The latest edition to the Chapman’s dog sculptures are the English Bull Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Chapman’s will also hand paint your dog from photos onto a sculptured resin model of your breed. ´ Cmielów Another new line for 2008 is the Cmielow, exquisitie fine porcelin sculptures from Poland, new designs and limited editions are introduced every six months. Belly Moden Belly Moden is a range of fabric tapestry bags from Germany, available in several styles from the large tote bag, handbag, and small waist bag for dog treats. In over 20 canine designs * Flemish tapestries * Cushions * Cotton breed bags* www.rabartforfineart.com [email protected] 01952 603239 Quality leads to excellence Hall 5 Crufts Stand 102 We specialise in the highest quality designer collars and leads. At Crufts we will feature our latest lines. Eve Pearce We stock the entire range of Eve Pearce porcelain figures. Eve will also undertakle comissions to sculpt and hand paint a model of your own dog from photos. Eve’s pieces are much sought after collectors items. CALLING BREED CLUB and SHOW SECRETARIES SPECIAL OFFERS FOR STOCK CLEARANCE pro-choice 33 Linky Linky is synonymous with quality safety and winning designs. We now stock selected items from Linky’s popular practical and trendy range of collars, leads and accessories, pro-choice are now sole suppliers for the Ch Show circuit. Hunter Discover the unique Hunter range from Germany, producers of the high quality nappa leather, the super soft elkskin and the hugely popular figure of eight rope leads. ‘O’ Cabot Chic A brand new line for 2008 is the ‘O’ Cabot Chic range of French show leads, available in a vast array of colours and designs to suit all show needs Canine jewellery Another new product for us in the ‘far fetched’ collection of silver, bronze and brass dog jewellery, which joins the ever popular ‘paw’ range available in silver and 9ct gold * Signage * Pet tags * Doggy bling * Cages (5 sizes) * For show awards, judges gifts etc, why not offer something different to the usual plastic trophy or glassware. We can offer tapestries, cushions, tote bags and place mats at extremely favourable rates, with further discounts for multiple orders. Our rates will allow your Club to re-sell to members at a competitive price, whilst still allowing a mark up for club/rescue funds. We stock the following breeds: Cavalier KCS, Papillion, Whippets, Samoyed, Japanese Chin, Deerhound, Dandie Dinmont, English Bull Terrier, SC Wheaten, Irish Wolfhound, Shih Tzu, Bedlington Terrier. Jo and Dave Kynnersley Farm, Kynnersley Near Telford TF6 6DX 07718 910221 www.pro-choicecanine.com [email protected] 34 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk NEW PRODUCT FROM THE ANIMAL HEALTH COMPANY! www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 SCOOPY-DO foam can be used indoors and out, it contains a fragrance to mask unpleasant odours and an antibacterial agent to protect against disease. So, probably the worst chore for the dog owners has just become a million times more acceptable, thanks to Scoopydo. In fact, using SCOOPY-DO actually makes dog poo look and smell nice! Aside from camouflaging faeces, SCOOPY-DO foam also doubles as a carpet spot cleaner. The product has been tested and approved by the Woolsafe Organisation. 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EL M A N E ES BADG IMATE T L U THE ALITY U Q N I UE & VAL FROM ONLY LA TYREL S TTE ROSE TYRELLA ROSETTES WON THE WORLD OVER Export Specialists Ewart Street, Saltney, Chester, CH4 0BL Tel: 01244 680204 Fax: 01244 671410 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tyrella.com www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 HUB International We have a buy online website with over 5200 products available at . . . http://www.hubint.com as well as a shop at Unit 5, Manor Farm, Peppard Common RG9 5LA we also take orders over the telephone Tel: 01491 628897 / 628355 Fax: 01491 629553 Email: [email protected] s at u See rufts C l 4, 2 l a H d 14 n Sta KELJANTZI’S MINIATURE PINSCHERS’ 2007 Cyril and Rita Wilkinson - 01772 315898 Top Breeders (joint) K’S ORINSPIRING BPIS MinPin Northern Open Show ’07 Owned by Katherine French 01515 242921 K’S EVA ENCHANTING Top Brood Bitch CH K’S LUCKY PIN AT CATAMYRANN Daughter C Black Pearl C Pieces of Eight BPIB CoBir’m (Kye’s son) 1 CC, 1 RCC, 3BP Owned by Cathy and Barbara Hewitt - 01427 610873 IR CH K’S MALACHI MAXIMIN JW SHCM 2 CCs, Top Sire Lily & Kye Proud parents of current litter - puppies available K’S OPINTUNITY NOX AT SUGGIMINS 1 BPIS, 2 RBPIS, 1 ToyGp, Mid’C’ties ProPlan PoYToy 1st Owned by Leanne Suggett 01274 587270 K’S NORTHERN KNIGHT WITH VARDENE BPIS MinPin Northern Open Show ’06, 2 BPIB LKA ’06 and Welks ’07, BPDUKTpy ’07, RBIS Chester City & County Owned by Sue Malcolm 01745 854017 K’S LILY THE PIN JW 1 CC + 3 RCCs Support the Keljantzi team in the Breeders’ Stakes final at Crufts, Thursday 5.30 K’S DEMETRIA ALYS JW (Kye’s mum) and her daughter K’S MIMI MAGIC AT CATAMYRANN 1 RCC 39 40 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 41 42 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 43 44 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 45 46 Crufts Classic 2008 Ch Warrigal Munyah Blue Yarraman (Curdeleon Blue The Boy Wunda x Warrigal Blue Cooma) www.ourdogs.co.uk Top Basset Hound Puppy 2007 Owned handled and treasured by Debbie Newman, Rosedene, Main Street, Offenham, Evesham WR11 8RL 01386 47452 [email protected] www.woferlowbassethounds.co.uk “ Ta z ” TOP BASSETT FAUVE DE BRETAGNE PUPPY 2007 4 X BEST DOG, 3 X BOB 8 X BEST PUPPY IN BREED 1 X PUPPY GROUP 4 P r o u d ly O w n e d By : Mr S h a u n L a y t o n Ha nd le d b y Mi ss Hel en How ard Te l. 0 124 6 856 555 E m a i l: s h a u n @ l a y w a y s .c o .u k TOP ACD in the UK for 2007 1st UK Bitch Champion & Bitch Record Holder Top Bitch in Breed 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 1st CC & BOB Birmingham National 2007: Mr Albert Wight 2nd CC & BOB Scottish Kennel Club 2007: Mr Peter Bailey 3rd CC & BOB Blackpool 2007: Mrs Ferelith Somerfield 4th CC & BOB Welsh Kennel Club: Mr Jeff Luscott Thank you to all the judges who have thought so highly of Munyah over the past few years Munyah is bred by Lady Huntingdon and is owned, loved and adored by Jack & Norma Digby 01948 841302 www.yarraman.co.uk Lyveden WOFERLOW BASSET HOUNDS WOFERLOW SAMUEL PICKWICK JW SHIROBLAM TAPAS AT TAMERON Photo by Alan V Walker OUR DOGS...dog things for dog people www.ourdogs.co.uk Am Ch Harmonyhillsatinfunnycideman at Chakona (Imp USA) ‘Derby’ - 11/12/03 OFA hips - good, elbows - normal, eyes clear (BVA) An excellent first year in the U.K. in which Derby has won: 2 Best in Show - Peter Bailey & Editha Newton 1 Reserve Best in Show - Margaret Everton 4 Pastoral Group 1, 7 BOB, 2 Jersey CCs - Spring Show - Christina Chapman; Summer Show - Margaret Everton 2 CCs - Bournemouth - Zena Thorn-Andrews; W.K.C. - Stevie Hall Pastoral Group 3 W.K.C - Louis Pinto Tiexeira 2 Reserve Best Dog - WPBAW - Peter Bailey; Paignton - Jinty Gill Davis BOB - Midland Counties - Glynis Dowson BIS - Guernsey kennel Club’s Winter Open Show - John Carter BOB & Group 3 at LKA 7 - Mr B M Croft & Mrs C Coxall Australian Shepherds since 1987 Photo Alan V Walker Lyveden Razlin Raina (‘Tilly’) Another successful year for my girl, 2 CCs to add to her reserve from a single set in 2006, 6 Best Bitch, 2 Reserve Best Bitch Thank you to the judges who thought so highly of her Bred, owned and loved by Angie Challenger Tel: 01366 386702 email: [email protected] Special thanks to all the of the above judges who have thought so highly of Derby, and heartfelt thanks to Heather Braddock of Harmony Hill Australian Shepherds, Connecticut, for allowing Derby to come to Britain. Derby is a real joy to show with his amazing temperament and ring presence. CLYNYMONA AINA Enquiries to: David & Carol Turner, Chakona, Rue des Reines, Forest, Guernsey, GY8 0JB. Tel: 01481 267318. Email: [email protected] TOP PUPPY ALL BREEDS PLUSH PUPPY COMPETITION 2007 in 2007 “Beau” won: BPIS Killarney Ch Irish Toy Dog Ch Puppy Gp 2 IKC Int Ch Res BPIS Royal Manx Show Bred by Virginia Dowty and owned by Tanya Mackrell & Terhi Korhonen c/o Ballasalla Place, Ballasalla, Isle of Man, IM9 2EH, British Isles Answerphone/Fax : (44) 1624 82 3539 Email : [email protected] & [email protected] WEBSITES : www.australiansilkyterriers.com & www.bombixmoren.eu CLYNYMONA & BOMBIX MOREN Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Australian Silky Terriers INT & IRISH CHAMPION BOMBIX MOREN DOSIS MAXIMA TOP WINNING AUSTRALIAN SILKY TERRIER 2007 (joint) Bred by Irma Leino and owned in partnership with Tanya Mackrell TANYA MACKRELL, IRMA LEINO & VIRGINIA DOWTY c/o Ballasalla Place, Ballasalla, Isle of Man, IM9 2EH, British Isles Answerphone/Fax : (44) 1624 82 3539 Email : [email protected] & [email protected] WEBSITES : www.australiansilkyterriers.com & www.bombixmoren.eu Silhill & Sherex AUSTRALIAN TERRIERS – setting the standard TOP TERRIER 2007............TOP BREEDER 2007............TOP STUD DOG 2007 TOP BROOD BITCH 2007............TOP PUPPY 2007 (JOINT)............TOP SIRE 2007 HERE ARE OUR 2007 RESULTS: SILHILL SCRUPLES (A RED ROCK DAUGHTER) CH SILHILL RED ROCK AT SHEREX We shall be campaigning a team of youngsters this year. so Watch this space! Sue McCourt - 01543 423102 Paul and Sheila Eardley - 01444 461131 47 48 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk PATTISHAWL BEARDED COLLIES Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Our Dogs Top Sire 2007 49 Top Breeder 2007 Ch Pattishawl Scarlet Ribbons - Top CC winning bitch Ch Pattishawl Preview - Crufts Pastoral Group winner Pattishawl Tickity Boo at Itani - CC winner Ch Pattishawl Scarlet Ribbons (Ch Coalacre Lampoon x Pattishawl Naughty But Nice) AM. CH. WILKEEP CO’S HOCUS POCUS AT FALLOWFIELD We would like to congratulate his winning offspring: Top Puppy all breeds 2007 / Pup of The Year Winner Ch. Serenaker Devil in Disguise Norcis Franklin, Fallowfield Daffodil, Serenaker Divine Devil, Serenaker Devil May Care Next Generation for weeks old (Potterdale Star Audition for Pepperjay JW x Ch Pattishawl Scarlet Ribbons) Steve and Linda Evans Website: www.pattishawl.co.uk Owner: Christine Lewis. Ashfield, Tarn Lane, Yealand Redmayne, LA5 9RX 01524 781284 Email:[email protected] Bushblades Tranquil Skies at Kayanarra JW ShCM (KIRA) 2 CC’S, 2 RCC’S Kir a is v e r y p rou d o f h e r o n l y p u p p y, M arc o. H e ha s th rilled u s a ll wit h h is a ch ieve me nt s in th e rin g . In 20 07 M arc o wo n t h e O u r D o g s To p P up p y in Bre ed wit h 5 BPIB, a s well as t h e O r o r a ’s P u p p y Tr o p h y ( B C C ) a n d Br ad d a br ook P up p y Tr o p h y ( S C B C C ) . At Bre ed Clu b O p en Sho ws he w as tw ice BPI S, a nd also won BPIS a t a Gen eral O p e n S h o w. He als o ga ine d his J u n i o r Wa r r a n t a t 8 mo nt hs old. Revloch Top Malinois Breeders 2007 NOR, DAN, NED, LUX, IR, GB CH Revloch O Baoill, 5 CC’s; 3 BOB’s; 2 Res CC’s Top Malinois UK/IRE 2007 Group 4 SKC ‘07 Group 1 Swords Int. Show ‘07 A litter is planned from Toyan April 2008 Paul, Jean & Kelly Lawless, The Cottage, Sunnyhill, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, Ireland Tel. 00353 (45) 482160 Email: [email protected] Web: www.revloch.com Photo: Marilyn Baker Bushblades Transaction JW (Marco) Thank you to all judges (and to his sire Ch. Merrythorpe Mulberry) who, along with Kira, made this all possible. Pet er & Yvonn e Fox, & Kay Farrier, Pet er ’s Ba nk Co t tag es , B ush bla des L a n e , H a r p e r l e y , S ta n l e y , C o. D ur ham , D H9 9 T Y Tel : 01207 290036 Photo: Joyce Crawford-Manton Revloch O’ Maillie GB CH Revloch O’Riagain Owned by Dave & Yvonne Brayson Owned by Val Neff Dog CC at Crufts ‘07 50 Crufts Classic 2008 BUMBLERIDGE BEARDED COLLIES For beauty and brains Bumbleridge will not be showing at Crufts this year as Sue is judging the Dogs. We wish all Bumbleridge Beardies a healthy, happy and successful 2008 Visit the Our Dogs stands at Crufts for a great range of annuals, magazines, euro mags, US Dog News, books and dvds www.ourdogs.co.uk Sabrefield Sequoya CREE Bumbleridge’s Naughty ’N’ Nice JW (Mattie) Mattie, born 21.11.05, would like to thank all the judges who have thought so highly of him, with achievements of: JW at 11 months Top SCBCC and NEBCC Puppy in 2006 Top Junior in 2007 RCC at Driffield 2007 11 consecutive champ show Yearling class wins Runner-up BCC Adult Trophy Mattie’s first litter produced both slates and browns being our 10th generation, some of which will be seen in the ring later in the year Stud & Puppy Enquires to Sue Nicholls-Ward Tel: 01782-516059 Email : [email protected] Ch Sioux Warrior X Sabrefield Zeredipity Joint Top Puppy 2007 1 Res CC This typical youngster has had a great first year in the ring and would like to congratulate her father on gaining his title. Look out for her in 2008 Tish Gaffey/Thea Jellicoe 01286 881435 [email protected] Champion Sioux Warrior Jt Leading Sire 2007 “Lakota” is already sire of a champion and BOB winners also 2 RCC winners and a JW. Many class winners at championship and open shows. On the working side he has offspring in MOD, search, rescue and at least six doing agility. Wishing them all continued success in 2008 Hehaka Belgian Shepherds [email protected] Miss Thea Jellicoe www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 51 HONEYMIST BEDLINGTONS SHIRLEY DAVIES - TOP BREEDER 2007 “ I s t a r t e d s h o w i n g r e gu l a r l y a t C h a m pi o n s h i p s h o w s i n t h e e a r l y 1 9 9 0 s . M y fi r s t C h a m pi o n w a s i n 1 9 9 3 . S i n c e th e n I h a v e br e d 1 8 Champ ions and cam pai gned a s on of Tr ane t o mult i CC wins . I was Top B reed er in t he Terrier G roup 2000 & 2002 an d Top Bed ling ton B reed er 1 9 9 9 , 2 0 0 0 , 2 0 0 1 ( j o i n t) , 2 0 0 2 a n d 2 0 0 5 . ” I n th e b e gi nn i n g there were Sparky, Jody, Honey and Misty, hence my affix. T h en Honey and Misty Our 1st.Champion was Ch.Honeymist Blue-Trane in 1993, RBIS Birmingham National, multiple BIS’s, RBISs and Terrier Groups (open shows)and many, many other show ring successes. R e c e n t ly Champion Honeymist Time Will Tell was BOB Crufts 2006. a n d N ow we will be showing Honeymist Sunny 2CCs, Res CCs, 4 CACIBs, in 2007 BOB Blackpool and 3rd in Terrier Group Belfast etc an d Honeymist Miles High, BOB Midland Counties 2007. (photo Carol Ann Johnson) For advice on grooming, health and care of Bedlingtons, breed history, the breed standard and much more visit my website www.honeymist.com Our Bedlingtons are extensively biopsied/ and DNA tested and are/were used in several research programs. Mrs.Shirley Davies. MPhil, BSc, Dip Ed, MIBiol, CBiol. Struthers Kennels, London Rd, Kilmarnock, KA3 6ND Tel 01563 533671 Email [email protected] 52 Crufts Classic 2008 CHAMPION SOCOTRA TAKE A CHANCE ON ME AT BURTELLOS www.ourdogs.co.uk Chance in 2001 won the award for Top Puppy. Then went on to gain his title, now is Top Sire 2007. His progeny are winning well at championship and open shows, with CCs, RCCs being won, Best Puppy and Group wins. We would like to congratulate them all on their successes and wish them good luck for the future. He’ll see you all at Crufts. Chance is DNA clear JHC and is loved and spoilt by Diane Costello 0161 763 6507 Email: [email protected] DALKEREVE DALMATIONS Top Dalmation Puppy 2007 Dalkereve Dark N Divine JW 1RCC Te n t h i n g s y o u n e e d t o k n o w a b o u t O U R D O G S o n l i n e OUR DOGS has been online for eight years ALL our pages can be read in digital format We have online search facilities JAYRICNBRITS BRITTANYS JAYRICNBRITS BOWEN Top Puppy 2007 1 CC and 1 Reserve CC Jayne Cutler www.jayricnbrits-brittanys.co.uk JEPEJO GWPS’ BAREVE BOKASSA VON JEPEJO Picture from Alan Walker Kerry & Steve Harrison-Stratford 128 Sywell Road Overstone Northampton NN6 0AG Tel: 01604 4990 ● All our show reports are archived online ● All our breed notes go back to 2002 ● There are 3,940 inbound links to OUR DOGS web site ● Nearly 25,000 people receive our FREE e-mail newsletter each week ● The Classifieds and Breeder Directory are the most popular pages ● OUR DOGS has over 10,000 pages in its free section alone TOP DOG OPPOSITE SEX 2007 CH DALMARK THE SHADED MOON AT NOSPAR JW TOP PUPPY in Breed 2006, 11 x PBIB AND A NEW CHAMPION in 2007 CC Three Counties Val Watson CC + BOB Windsor Cathie McCarthy CC Birmingham John Watson CC Northern Ireland Dalmatian Club Theresa Gardinor Kavacanne Gift of the Gab JW (GALE) Photo by Les Denman (Sh Ch Pitwit Spring Into Action JW ex Dutch Ch Isara Kurzhaar Chatline of Kavacanne. JW ShCM) TOP GSP PUPPY 2007 BITCH CC MIDLAND COUNTIES 6 BPIB AND 14 CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW WINS 2007 JUNIOR WARRANT AT 11 MONTHS Owned and Loved by the Rose Family Tel: 01952 506660 www.kavacanne.co.uk Some of Kassie’s wins to date are BPIB at Driffield and GOSW Champ Shows. BPIS Stoke Gundog Open Show and BPIS at Wilmslow & Alderley Limit Show. BPIS at Halifax & DCS Open Show. Plus many other BP, BOBs and Puppy Group placings at Open Shows. SH CH BAREVE BOXCARA TO JEPEJO ShCM (ISLA) won the RBCC at GBAS 2007 Many thanks to Barbara and Sharon for our lovely girls Jean and John Marshall, Merseyside www.jepejogundogs.co.uk Congratulations to Pandamax Aphrodite who qualified at Manchester 2008 and good luck to the rest of “MERLOT”’s progeny now entering the ring D O B: 13.09.05 liver and white Thank you again to the judges who have thought so highly of our special boy and to his breeder and friend Margaret Kembrey Loved and very proudly owned by Toni and Steve Stocks, 01276 34154 Email: [email protected] CLYNYMONA BOLOGNESE Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk In Partnership with HAVANESE STARS, AMORINAS, CLARCHIEN INT, FR, SWISS, LUX, GIB CH IR CH CLYNYMONA LEONETTI LENNY VALASSKE HORY IR CH CLYNYMONA LEONETTI Photo: Dougie Photo: A Walker INT, IR, SWISS CH CLYNYMONA FARFALLA Top Puppy in Breed 2006 CACIBs IR, Fr, Switz Owned by Virginia Dowty and Joan Mackrell Crufts BOB 2007 Owned by Marguerite Seeberger and Virginia Dowty BOLOGNESE STAR AUDREY AT HAVANESE STARS IKC Annual Ch 2007 & Celtic Winner 2007 Photo: Betty Photo: Crawford Manton AMORE AMORINAS NOUVA REGINA At 12 months BOB WKC, Tralee Ch and Res BOB Darlington Owned by Virginia Dowty and Marguerite Seeberger Junior Nordic winner 2007 Owned by Mrs V Skarhammar, Kathy Begg and Virginia Dowty We have more “stars” arriving in 2007/08 and litters planned for 2008 First: THINK, Second: BELIEVE, Third: DREAM, Finally: DARE – Walt Disney Virginia Dowty & Tanya Mackrell, Ballasalla Place, Ballasalla, Isle of Man IM92EH Tel/ans/fax: 44 1624 823539 www.bolognese.biz 53 54 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk TOP ROUGH COLLIE 2006 & 2007, TOP BREEDER 2007, TOP BROOD BITCH 2007 CRUFTS TRIPLE CC WINNER CH SAMHAVEN TOAST 5CC and HER TOP WINNING OFFSPRING P h o t o by : C a r o l A nn J o h ns o n CH SAMHAVEN TOAST OF THE ISLES AT RIBANS P h o t o by : F ar l ap CH SAMHAVEN CHEERS TOP ROUGH COLLIE 2006 7 CCs GROUP 3, 4 P h ot o b y: W i l l i am M o o r e s 5CCs including Crufts 2006 P h o t o by : L in d a C o l l i n CH SAMHAVEN TOAST MARSTER Photo By Monike Rosche www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 TOP ROUGH COLLIE 2006 & 2007, TOP BREEDER 2007, TOP BROOD BITCH 2007 55 GRATEFUL THANKS TO ALL JUDGES WHO HAVE THOUGH SO HIGHLY OF MY DOGS. AND RICHARD, FIONA, EMMA, COLLETTE AND JENNY FOR THEIR HELP. 56 Crufts Classic 2008 Quistel/Our Dogs magazine www.ourdogs.co.uk TOP RARE BREED PUPPY IN BOLOGNESE 2007 WOLFSCASTLE (Deerhounds & Whippets) Kim with Terichline Windrush at Regalflight Top Sire 2007 HOME OF TOP SIRE AND TOP PUPPY IN BREED 2007 Simo Aphaia of StanHome Janis and John Stanley dedicated to our beautiful Italian Bolognese breed Tel: +441953 488058 Web: www.stanhome.co.uk Email: [email protected] (L) Wolfscastle Wood Melick - First at Crufts 2007 J/H 6-11 yrs (R) Marandike Ebony’s Choice to Wolfcastle - Top Puppy 2007 Owned and loved by Kim Owen & Zoe Brodie Thanks to all judges for making this a year to remember! www.wolfscastlehounds.co.uk TONKORY BORDER COLLIES TOP BREEDER 2003 2005 2006 2007 TOP BROOD BITCH 2005 2006 2007 TOP PUPPY 2007 Tonkory Last Tango in Paris JW Tonkory Lightning Strikes Jaydean JW JUDITH GREGORY Tel 01454 228418 Email [email protected] ORION & STORMAVON GERMAN SPITZ KLEIN BREEDERS www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 57 Congratulate the Breed Recorder Holder: CHAMPION ORION MIRROR IMAGE 33 CC’s 30 BOB & 5 Group Placings MATED 4 TIMES IN 2007 - TO 4 DIFFERENT BITCHES PRODUCING 7 WINNERS FROM 10 PUPPIES S I RE D BY T HE TO P WI N N I N G G E RM A N S PI T Z KL EI N OF A LL T I M E Earl has been consistent in producing winners TWO English Champions & 2 adults with 2 CC’s each, 3 adults with 6 reserve CC’s between them, 1 puppy who has 2 reserve CC’s Abroad he has Sired Finnish and International Ch. & his puppies are winning right now! PICTURED ARE SOME OF HIS LATEST WINNING PROGENY CH. OR ION MI RROR I MAGE I S AT PUBLI C STUD TO A PPROVED B IT CH ES Contact Mr. Steve Wright : 01387 811100 Email: [email protected] 58 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk MARTONBURG DOBERMANNS BIGGLESMERE LOWCHENS & LINANTONE MINIATURE SCHNAUZERS Top Breeders 2005, 06, 07. Top Puppy 2004/2006 This is despite the knockers and snipers. To those we “Salute you!” Our thanks must go to all our friends for their help and encouragement through these hard times. We are especially proud of the new people we have introduced into the breed who have seen the potential in our stock and feel proud to show it, to such high awards. Photo: BIGGLESMERE’S ETERNAL DREAM, “Dylan”, one of our hopes for 2008. After Crufts the Bigglesmeres will be taking a well-earned sabbatical from UK Toy Peter A Scarth & Mike S Gaunt Tel +44 113 2539391 www.bigglesmere.co.uk Breed Foods, Behavioural Advice – and a nice sit down ! KC Accredited breeder. Puppies available occasionally. Bred for temperaments and show quality. Parents’ health tested. Our Dogs Dobermann Breed correspondent Contact Marcia Cox 07816 844548 [email protected] Crufts 2008 sees Royal Canin launch six new pure breed foods, while behaviourists Sarah Heath and Jon Bowen will be on stand to meet breeders, and if it all gets just a little too much for your feet, introduce a friend to the Royal Canin Professional Club, and claim a free foldable chair each ! Six more breeds benefit from Royal Canin Pure Breed approach Six of the UK’s most outstanding dog breeds are the latest to benefit from Royal Canin’s unique approach, with specialist nutrition tailored to their individual needs. Chihuahua, Golden Retriever, Rottweiler, Miniature Schnauzer, Cocker Spaniel and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel foods will all make their debut to members of the Royal Canin Professional Partnership at Crufts 2008. Formulated as the result of extensive work with breeders, veterinarians and nutritionists worldwide, each food provides specialist nutrition for the unique requirements of the breed. The Goldie’s long, dense coat often leads to dermatological problems, and the breed is also prone to weight gain, so Royal Canin Golden Retriever is designed with these problems in mind. The Cocker Spaniel food (for both English and American types) addresses weight maintenance and skin and coat care. Skin, coat, dental and cardiac issues are the main focus for the Cavalier King Charles. The Chihuahua’s picky appetite, tendency to dental problems linked to a small jaw, and propensity to cardiac problems are focussed on, while Miniature Schnauzer helps address the breed’s tendency to urinary calculi (stones), sensitive skin and coat, and dental care. Across the range, kibbles are designed to suit the highly specific shape of each individual breed’s jaw, encouraging chewing, aiding digestion and helping with oral-dental hygiene. Royal Canin was the first pet food manufacturer to offer breed-specific foods tailored to the needs of some of the most popular breeds, and now caters for 17 dog breeds and 3 cat breeds, including selected puppy and kitten varieties. STAGBATCH SOULMATE FOR LIFE (JW) Introduce Sil ve r sprin gs Br e ez e o f A qu asul is Reserve Bitch Manchester 2008 (aged 8 months) Owned by Victoria Patterson Windswept, Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Somerset BA2 0ED 01761 470 671 [email protected] www.aquasulisgreatdanes.com CH. J AL US US GA L IL E O JW JW 59 Top Pedigree Puppy 2007 (JW) by 11 months Photo by Alan V Walker A quasulis Grea t Da nes Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Three group placings: RCC Midland Counties: Best in Show GD Breeder’s and Owners: Best Harlequin Colour Format 2008: Dog, Res Best in Show and Best Opp Sex Owned and bred by Anne Tomlin Tel: 01568 760091 Thank you to all judges that have given Soul and I so many wonderful days out. Puppies available early 2008 JALUS TOP LHASA LHASAAPSO APSO 2007 2007 TOP Ch. Jalus Jalus Galileo Galileo JW JW Ch. 11 CC’s, CC’s, 77 RES RES CC’s, CC’s, 11 GRP 3, 3, GRP GRP 44 GRP HIS SISTER SISTER HIS Jalus Goldilocks Goldilocks Jalus CC’s, 22 RES RES CC’s CC’s 22 CC’s, THEIR MOTHER MOTHER THEIR TOP BROOD BROOD BITCH BITCH TOP 2007 2007 Ch. Jalus Jalus Dizzy Dizzy Lizzy Lizzy Ch. Her Brother Brother Her Ch. Jalus Jalus Dan Dan Dare Dare Ch. CC’s, 66 RES RES CC’s, CC’s, 22 77 CC’s, GRP 2, 2, GRP GRP 3, 3, BOB BOB xx GRP Crufts 2006 2006 Crufts Also Also Jalus Flirty Flirty Felicity Felicity Jalus CC’s, 11 RES RES CC CC 22 CC’s, Alll pprroouuddllyy bbrreedd,, oow wnneedd aanndd A wnn bbyy SShhoow Am maannddaa LLuussccootttt A 0011224422 667722004444 maaiill:: JJlluuss112233@ @aaooll..ccoom m EEm 60 ROMAINVILLE GLEN OF IMAAL TERRIERS Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Present JEONTY ROCK ON TOMMY 2CCs Multiple Championship show winner Top Sire 2006 Tommy is the only male Glen in England with 2 CCs at this time CCs both with BOB Birmingham Judge: Paul Eardley Darlington judge: Mel Hardy AMHARD GLEN OF IMAAL TERRIER TOP PUPPY 2007 Presenting AMHARD DAMSON SAUCE (Duncan to his fans) DOB 28/07/06 Sire-Beatrix’s Boy with Windarra from Donvaleset, Dam-Amhard Apple Betty Anne and Mel would like to thank all those judges that thought so highly of Duncan in awarding him Best Puppy in 2007, in the first year that Glen of Imaal Terriers have been awarded CC status. He ended the year on a high note when at Driffield he won his first Junior class at a championship show and went Best of Breed under judge Moira Barrass We are looking forward to 2008 and to welcoming Duncan’s progeny into the ring Proudly owned and bred by Mel and Anne Hardy 01777 703417 Multiple Championship show winner Class winner Crufts 2007 Tommy congratulates his daughters Co Co of Romainville Top Puppy ’06 And Briar Rose at Romainville BOB winner Kathy George 01432 880819 [email protected] DONVALESET GLEN OF IMAAL TERRIER TOP SIRE 2007 BEATRIX’S BOY WITH WINDARRA FROM DONVALESET DOB 21/05/05 Sire: Donvaleset Black Velvet, Dam: Windarra Salva In 2007 Flynn won numerous Best of Breeds, gaining his stud book number at Darlington Championship Show The Donvaleset Kennel produced the sire of the first UK champion dog, a Swedish Champion as well as winning stock in the USA and Ireland. We would like to thank the judges that thought so highly of our boy, who at 2½ years old will now be campaigned in Limit. Congratulations to Flynn’s son Amhard Damson Sauce: Top Puppy 2007 Watch out for the arrival of Donvaleset Brier Best wishes for 2008 to all our Glen friends, Don &Val Harley, Tel:01623 487168 ROCKISLAND PULIS www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 Top Breeders 1998, 2005, 2006 and 2007 61 Photo by Alan Walker TOP HUNGARIAN PULI 2007 CH ROCKISLAND ROCKS ON THE ROAD SH CM Our special homebred boy “Bandit” (17 CCs, 9 BOB, 4 Res CCs, 2 x Group 2, 2 x Group 1 and a Res BIS) Though Bandit was lightly campaigned in ’07 he lived up to his name and rocked at the 11 Championship shows with CCs on offer that he did attend and was awarded two Reserve CCs, 8 CCs, 5 BOB, 1 x Group 2, 2 x Group 1 and a Reserve BIS finishing the year as Top Hungarian Puli. Ch Catsun Queen of the Night for Rockisland TOP BROOD 2005, 2006 and 2007 (3rd ALL BREEDS ‘07) We are delighted that Bandit’s dam Dixie is Top Brood again especially since she was also 3rd all Breeds in 2007. BLACK ’N BLUES MAYHEM MAYBE FOR ROCKISLAND 2007 was also a great year for our Danish delight Mamie who was awarded 2 reserve c.c.’s and her first magical c.c. Our most sincere thanks to all judges who continue to think so highly of our kids making 2007 a very special year for us to remember. Puppies from Bandit and Mamie (both hip scored and eye tested clear) are planned for this year - enquiries welcome. James and Elizabeth Williams Sunnyside Cottages, Stockiemuir Road, Blanefield, Glasgow. Phone/fax 01360 770205 e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] 62 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk WELCOMES HOME DENZIL NZ CH/AUST CH KANETIA SECRET SERVICE AT CORDMAKER (CH/AUST GRAND CH/NZ CH/AM CH/ARG CH CORDMAKER ONE SPY TOO MANY ex KANETIA VULPIX) Denzil has been in New Zealand and Australia showing since January 2006. Kathryn Stewart showed him to multiple group placings and to both Reserve and Best in Show awards while in New Zealand including Best of Breed at the Pro Plan NZKC National Dog Show. In Australia Sue Huebner took him to: 7 Group 1 4 Group 2 3 Reserve Best in Show 2 Best in Show All this in eight weeks!! And I thank you both. Denzil is now back up in Scotland for good with John and Lorraine Ritchie (HOLLIBELL PULIS) and will again be shown by John with whom he was Top Puppy 2004 and has 3 Res CCs in the UK to date: Midland Counties 2005 Joe Kirk W&P Breeds of Scotland 2005 Marlis Wyatt LKA 2005 Jenny Farnfield Look out for Denzil back in the UK ring this year along with litter brother Cody (KANETIA AGENT CODY BANKS) and neice KT (HOLLIBELL DRESS TO IMPRESS) Denzil is owned by: J&L Ritchie, D Giles and S Huebner Breeder: Dawn Giles Contact:- Dawn 01253 858127 or John 07847859909 ROUGHSHOOT HUNGARIAN VIZSLAS AT CRUFTS 2008 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk ROUGHSHOOT AGILE Sh Ch/Aus Ch Hungargunn Bear it’n Mind X Baralinka Lass of Roughshoot Owned by Mr S and Mrs C Cornwall ROUGHSHOOT A LA CARTE Sh Ch/Aus Ch Hungargunn Bear it’n Mind X Baralinka Lass of Roughshoot Owned by Mr M and Mrs J Schofield ROUGHSHOOT APHRODISIAC Sh Ch/Aus Ch Hungargunn Bear it’n Mind X Baralinka Lass of Roughshoot Owned by Mrs Louise Bell KAZVAL HALL MARK OF ROUGHSHOOT Sh Ch/Aus Ch Hungargunn Bear it’n Mind X Kazval Kiss ’n’ Tell Owned by ourselves James and Sharon Bergin Tel: 01400 251825 Website: www.roughshoot.com 63 64 PLAISANCE . . . . . . a tribute to Crufts Classic 2008 SWANNDALE www.ourdogs.co.uk PLAISANCE RED SKY OVER SWANNDALE With 3 RCCs became the breed’s top-winning female puppy 2006 Her sister, PLAISANCE NIGHT SKY OVER SWANNDALE was Top Winning Puppy in the breed 2007, with her first CC awarded at Manchester 2008 SWANNDALE www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 Lancashire Heeler Kennels We had a super start to 2007 in making our CHAMPION SWANNDALE MAN IN BLACK the Breed CC record holder Also taking Top Breeders 07, Top Dog 07, Top Sire 07, Top Brood Bitch 07 and Top Puppy Thanks to all the judges photo of CH SWANNDALE MAN IN BLACK and his daughter PLAISANCE NIGHT SKY OVER SWANNDALE Winner of Top Puppy 07 and the Bitch CC Manchester Ch Show 2008 Mr J & Mrs J Swann, Swanndale Kennels, 480 Crankwood Rd, Leigh, Lancashire WN7 4PP Tel: 01942 676545 Email: [email protected] Website: www.swanndaleheeler.com 65 MARQUANT GRIFFON BRUXELLOIS 66 Crufts Classic 2008 Marquant The Dream Girl www.ourdogs.co.uk SH CH LETYREOS METHOD MAN AT CIACCIATA JW (Epithelium Oracolo With Wynsett Imp X Latyreos Sweet Lili) CHARNEY KENNELS Celebrates their third year winning Top Utility Stud 2005 2006 2007 (Ch Gordorna Atatakai Chokoreto) 12 CCs 11 with BOB 6 reserve CCs BOB Crufts 2001 1 group Placing. Also Top Breeder 2007 and Top Puppy 2007 Photo by Andrew H Brace Midas had a short, but successful career, and proved to be an outstanding showman. Here at Charney we are extremely proud of his achievements, both for ourselves and his breeder Gordon Lister. Sadly we lost Midas in February 2007, but we are thankful that we have some of his sons and daughters who will be trying their best to emulate their father. He will be a hard act to follow and is still sadly missed. Sire: Ch M Wil Smith Dam: Such Channa’s Knock on Wood From her eleven Ch show puppy appearances: 10 BPs, Top Puppy and Joint Top Puppy in the Toy Group Puppy competition, 2 Res CCs, JW [sub KC], BP Toy Dog Society of Wales 2007. “and the dream goes on” Her first appearance as a “grown up” – Manchester Ch Show, Bitch CC & BOB. “and the dream goes on……………………” A big thank you to all those who appreciated Dream’s lovely type and typical Griffon temperament. Our current show and breeding stock are all eye tested clear. Alison Price 01685 841480 KOOIKERHONDJE CRUNCHCROFT INVINCIBLE TOP PUPPY Thank-you to all who have admired Rebus and chosen him as the Father of their puppies. He has made his mark and I am very proud to own him. He is a very special Boy and much loved by Carol Broadley (01276 855346) NASTANE CH CHARNEY PAWA HOSHI (Tenko) 2007 Top Breeder 2007 Top Puppy Steph Bliss and Carly Bridport 01367 241063 www.charneykennels.co.uk Useful information General information: Crufts main Information Centre is situated opposite the entrances to Halls 3 and 3a. Please note that unfortunately NO DOGS other than those that have been invited by the Kennel Club are permitted into the show. WINS INCLUDE: 7 BEST PUPPY/2 RES BEST DOG AT CHAMPIONSHIP SHOWS 3 GROUP PLACINGS AT OPEN SHOWS T hank y ou to all th e Judg es O wned & B red by Edwi na Ken nedy - 01205 260396 VECTISELEON LEONBERGERS ESTELLE V. LOWENKRAFT MIT VECTISELEON Introduces her Daughter.......... VECTISELEON SHALAYE – ROXY (DOB 31/07/07) SIRED BY BENINIO V ZEITSCHELHOF NASTANE SWEET FANNY ADAMS Res CC CACIB Paris 2008 Congratulates her first puppies by Ch Tewhit Typhoon Nastane Tommy Top King Charles Puppy 2007 Nastane Miss Dior Avec Baldragon JW Miss East. Tel: 0121 378 0795 Ch Am Gib Ch Divines I’m A Phantasy with Lafford Sh CM BOB & Gp 4 Crufts 2005 [Our Dogs/Quistel comp] Lovingly and proudly owned by JULIA AND PETER SWINBURN Tel/fax: 01789 750790 At home with his kennel mate Annabelle Betsy’s Rose at Bynton and our Dalmatians and Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs Creche: A children's crèche will be available during the show. All lost children should be taken to, or collected from, the children's crèche. Cloakroom: Situated in the Piazza at the NEC near the main entrance. Luggage can also be left at them. Export enquiries: The Overseas Lounge or the Kennel Club main information stand are able to deal with all export enquiries. Belgian Champion Makes breed history First British-based Kooiker to be made into a Champion First year off the Import Register is TOP KOOIKERHONDJE Bank: National Westminster Bank Plc has a branch situated on the Piazza at the NEC. For opening hours, please contact the bank directly. Discover Dogs: Over 190 different breeds of pedigree dog to get better acquainted with in the Discover Dogs area. Enquiries to:Miss Penny Dabell, Holly Grove Kennels , Bagnall, Staffordshire Tel: 01782 503946 Email: [email protected] www.vectiseleon.co.uk POACHER WESCALLE V MUSKYTEIRA AT BYNTON Arena seating: Admission tickets now include Arena seating for up to 6,000 visitors. Apart from the Best in Show programme which requires an additional ticket and subject to availability. ‘Gabe’ congratulates his offspring on their achievements! Filming & photography: Commercial cinematography and television equipment may only be used at Crufts if a permit has been issued by the Organisers. There are also certain restrictions on the use of cameras for still photography and private video films. Full details of these and filming permits may be obtained from the Press Office, Crufts, 1-5 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London W1J 8AB. Am Ch Lafford Kajen Phantasy 4 Res CCs Postal facilities: The Royal Mail post office is situated on the Piazza at the NEC. Havin’ a Paddy at Lafford Best Puppy in Show ‘Maltese Club’ Prams: Prams or push-chairs may be admitted and wheeled around the Show. The Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry to prams or push-chairs if it is felt that the Halls are overcrowded. Ir Ch Zumarnick Princess Tiara at Lafford Dolcissimo 1 Res CC I Got You Babe Best Puppy in Breed ‘City of Birmingham’ ‘Midland Counties’ ‘Scottish Kennel Club’ ‘Darlington’ Carol Lees: [email protected] Press centre: The Crufts press centre is situated in the Toute Suite in front of the main doors at the NEC and facilities are available to accredited press only. Restaurants: Several restaurants will be open to the public during the opening hours of the show. www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 67 BENATONE MALTESE 68 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk TOP BREEDER 2007 & TOP MALTESE 2007 Home of the SECOND TOP TOY DOG 2007 - UK CH BENATONE GOLD RING ‘Miles’ (sire) CH AM CAN CH HI-LITE RISQUE GOLD FEVER (dam) Benatone Love Heart (Top Brood Bitch 2007) Photo by Carol Ann Johnson 14 CC – All with BOB, 5 Green Stars BIS Southern Counties Ch Show BIS Maltese Club Ch Show BIS Celtic Winners Ch Show (Ireland) 2 Reserve BIS Ch Shows (Ireland) 5 Group 1, 5 Group 2, 4 Group 3 Third at the Petplan Junior Stakes Final In 2008 he starts the year with BOB at Boston Championship Show and makes the final 4 for Best In Show and at Manchester, takes CC, BOB & Group For Puppy & Stud Enquiries please contact Sarah Jackson 01604 409995 07919 160770 www.benatonemaltese.co.uk [email protected] 2 Photo by Javalby BENATONE GOLD STAR ‘Jenny’ (sire) CH AM CAN CH HI-LITE RISQUE GOLD FEVER (dam) Benatone Spinning Around Jenny has attended just five shows, due to Gold Ring’s success, and is already a winner of 1 CC & 1 Res CC RBCC at the Maltese Club Ch Show in 2007 and Bitch CC at Manchester 2008. Jenny’s full brother AM CH/CAN CH BENATONE GOLD BUTTON returns from Canada in 2007, with his American and Canadian title Also in 2007 CH CAN CH AM CH HI-LITE FEVER PITCH (IMP) gains his UK title after attending only six UK shows. Achieving a total of 4 CCs, 3 BOB, 2 Res CC (one from Crufts 2007) and Group 3 at Birmingham National 2007 www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 69 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk VELDTKAMMER RHODESIAN RIDGEBACKS What a fantastic year we had last year with: CH & IR CH VELDTKAMMER LADY DONE A BUNK Taking the new Breed Record with 33 CCs Lady Done a Bunk was only shown the first part of the year taking a break to have her puppies; they make their debut in March. VELDTKAMMER FACE BOVVERED We also did the double at Crufts with CH IR INT CH VELDTKAMMER DEW TO MORE DUO BOB and CH & IR CH VELDTKAMMER LADY DONE A BUNK BOS What a proud day!! and VELDTKAMMER GET OF A MY CLOUD wasTop Stud for 07 Top RR 04,05,06 Crufts BOB 06 & Crufts BOS 07 Photo by Trafford 70 We also had three new Irish Champions made up Top Puppy for 07 and runner-up overall in the Hound Group Mike & Linda Parke Tel No: 01692 407020 www.veldtkammerridgebacks.co.uk GLOI BROWNEYED HANSOME MAN AT TSARMONT JW RCC Winner of the Fosse Data Post Graduate Stakes at Boston & DCS 2nd Ch Show 2008! Also winner of the Gundog Group for the 2nd consecutive show running at Deane & District CS GLOI FLASH BANG WALLOP BY TSARMONT Best Puppy Dog WKC 1st Minor Puppy Dog SKC RCC Boston and DCS First CH Show “Won class easily for his overall soundness and balance, his rear driving movement was a delight to see.” Ruth Broughton, Breed Specialist Thanks to all the judges who have thought so highly of Boston and Tarn and of course special thanks to Lyn Walker and Larry Roberts without whom none of this would have been possible! Boston is available at stud to approved bitches ADORED BY AMANDA & STEVE KIRKMAN Photo by Alan Seymour Photo by Nick Ridley Photo by Les Denman MGRC Pup of the Year 2005 KCJW Semi Finalist (Ch Lovehayne Quentin JW X Gloi Enchantress) Hips 6:4 Eyes Clear Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk “Aptly named, presented in pristine coat and super muscular condition with desired bone/substance. Scores in shape and balance of head and skull with lovely eye and biddable exp. Correct reach of strong neck running clearly into smooth , well placed shoulders. Ideal depth of chest and well sprung ribcage; well balanced front and rear making for super shape in profile. Moved out straight and true with purposeful drive and power from well placed hocks. A natural showman, whose career I shall follow. Delighted to award BOB from nice breed entry followed by Gundog GP 1, where he could not be denied on his commanding and faultless performance in the big ring.” Pam Mottershaw, Judge ROSTOCK ROTTWEILERS 01924 242837 Puppy Group 1 Winner and Best of Breed (at only 12 months of age) (Gloi Browneyed Hansome Man at Tsarmont JW X Gloi Xilver Darling) are proud to announce “Top Breeder 2007” Many thanks to all judges ‘Spice’ and ‘Roxy’ achieved this award We have produced Top Winning Bitch 2002 Ch Rostock Maggie May Five home-bred champions Two overseas champions Six CC winners Puppies planned early 2008 Rostock Obsession (Ch Darkarmar Amen Corner JW Ex Ch Rostock Maggie May) and 2 CCs 1 RCC Ch Rostock Vanity Fair Best Puppy in Breed Manchester Ch Show 2007 Bred and owned by Rostock Amber Spice Ch Rostock Vanity Fair JW ‘Roxy’ (Ch Fantasa King of Jazz Ex Rostock Obsession) 7 CCs 4 BOB 4 RCCs Owned by Marion Jones “Ponchleens Rottweilers” Tel: 01932 845213 Rosemary and Brian Poole Tel: 01948 666227 Email: [email protected] 71 72 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 73 Crufts Classic 2008 M A N C H E S T E R T E R R IE R TO P P U P P Y O F T HE Y E A R 2 0 0 7 Photo by Lewis Bacutt B R OO KS TREA M M A RCU S B ANKS J W SALFORDA SABLE www.ourdogs.co.uk 2CCs with BOBs & 2 Res CCs Our Dogs / Pedigree Top Norwegian Elkhound Puppy 2007 Owned and adored by Nicola Cree Tel. 07706 865 508 17 MacAdam Place, New Farm Loch, Kilmarnock KA3 7LY TOP PAPILLON PUPPY 07 0117 949 4462 TOP BREEDER 2005 AND 2006 Linda Proudfoot (Salforda Mastiffs) 01892 852786 Email [email protected] INIXIA PAPILLONS HOME OF THE PETPLAN TOP SIRE COMPETITION 2007 CH INIXIA TROYSDALE TIME TRAVELLER S p i n i l l o n s S a f f i r e - a lr e a d y B P I S an d 2 x RB P IS / Adu l t G ro up w i n ne r ( L) Look out for Seymore and Abby and the next Spinillons Generation..... Spinillons Papillons UK - Where Quality, Soundness & Condition Don't Just Count.................... THEY ARE THE ONLY THING!!!!!!! Jo Davidson-Poston BA. (Hons) Email: [email protected] NEW Website: http://www.spinillons.com Tel: 0208-959-7868 CHAMPION TEASELTAIL TALKS IN ERNEST Ch Jaycroft Maisie Reign from Torilea LABAMBA STANDARD POODLES S P I N I L L O N S I S AD O R A JW ( R ) Please See Cyril and Rita Wilkinson’s Miniature Pinscher advert on page 39 Australian Ch Jaycroft Jailhouse Rock Mr & Mrs Spence Top Mastiff Puppy 2007 D.O.B. 12.10.2006 Sire: Vaejan’s Martell Dam: Ravenstone Countess Freya 5 x Best Puppy In Breed - 3 x Best Puppy In Show Including Hound Association of England under Zena Thorn Andrews - 1st C.C. under Norwegian Specialist Rolf Frostad Since then we have bred three more champions, they are: Ch Jaycroft Ruby Tuesday at Vardene Bred & Owned by Nigel Lesley & Wayne Norris Tel 01142 887036 Ravenstone Toastmaster CH JAYCROFT CLASSIC DESIGN He is our first champion Photo: by Pete Brown Photography 74 LABAMBA JUST ME (1CC) Top Puppy 2007 (Now residing with Michael Coad and Geoff Corish) Top Bitch 2006, Top Stud Dog 2003/4/6 T I ME I S V E T C ERT F R E E F ROM PL & PRA M R S S U E S TA N B U R Y Te l . 0 1 3 9 2 3 6 9 7 5 9 E m a i l : s u e s t a n b u r y @ i n i x i a . f s n e t . c o . u k Benvellyn Cape Columbard of Daicheil (JW) TOP PUPPY 2007 SHEFFAWN PUGS Sandra Dennison, Height Top Farm, Whitewell Bottom, Rossendale, Lancs BB4 9LL. 01706 220824 TOP BREEDER 2007 “Quality not quantity” Our current champions (left to right): ‘Parsnip’, ‘Take That’, ‘Kirsty’, ‘In The Pink’. Also, well done to ‘She’s the One’, owned by Yvonne and Becky. CHRISTINE BAINES 0114 245 3902 OUR DOGS would like to wish all Photo by Kevin Hughes readers the very best of luck at BOB Crufts 2007, from 250 entries Also 4 CCs all with BOB, 3 RCC, Group 3 Border Union Champion Stakes winner Midland Counties Sire of Top Puppy 2006, Teaseltail Tic follows Tock JW RCC (Walter) Thank you to all the judges who have though so highly of my two boys. Wishing everyone a lovely and successful day at Criufts 2008. Ernest and Walter are bred, owned and shown by Ann and Jonathan Lewis. Tel: 01942 207767, mobile: 07876711087 Email: [email protected] Crufts, and don’t forget to book your space in the Crufts Winners special, out in April bred by Mr. B. K. & Mrs. J. E. M. Jones and owned and much loved by Mr. and Mrs. A Laird Call at the stand for more details www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 75 Am/Irish CH. San Jo’s Born To Party Six generations Best In Show winners Riley Owned and handled by Mrs. M and Miss M Boardman, Ireland Bred by Mrs. Sandra Bell, San Jo Cocker Spaniels, USA 76 Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Ta l e e m L a b r a d o r s TIROEN IRISH SETTERS TIROEN TAYLORMADE P d’H TJ Made history by winning the Channel Islands Dog of the Year for the second time and capped it by going Reserve Dog of the Year 2007 1CC and 1 RCC Jersey and RBIS KCJ Spring Ch Show, Guernsey October Show and KCJ January Show He has also Qualified for South Wales Dog of the Year by winning BIS at Pembrokeshire County Show (L) Cwmtaff Gabrielle at Leighsham JW Charamese Road Runner to Leighsham ex Leighsham Angel Eyes Joint Top Puppy 2007 4 BPIB and 2 BPB 3rd BPIS Gundog Society of Wales Bred by Mr I Sellecks (R) Charamese Road Runner to Leighsham JW Sansue Magic Man ex Amilone Livin Easy at Charamese Top Sire 2007 1 CC and 2 RCCs BOS in Show Bred by Mr and Mrs R&J McDougal Owned and loved by Geoff & Joy Jackson-Haines Email: [email protected] SH CH SQUIRRELSMEAD DIGBY OF CANINA JW Introducing TIROEN TRUE BLUE RBPIS – NEEISC Ch Sh, BPIB - GBAS & TIROEN TAKE MY BREATH AWAY BPIS – KCJ November Show, and KCJ January 2008 Show Whelped – 18/03/07 Clachnahar Ami Pierrot JW X Tiroen Tickled Pink Channel Islands Reserve Puppy of the Year Taleem Once In A While (Tapeatom Sugar and Spice at Taleem Rocheby Old Smokey) Thanks to Mrs B Howard and Mrs M Hopkinson for making this all possible Mrs R Evans Le Cotil La Rue St Julien St Martin, Jersey 01534 851864 Loved, Owned and Bred by Ro and Nigel Cox – Jersey, C.I.. www.tiroen-irish-setters.co.uk FOXRUSH OVALTINE JW Sire: Rocheby Old Smokey Dam: Sh Ch Foxrush Giselle JOINT TOP GUNDOG PUPPY 2007 KYNOCH SAMOYEDS IR CH C ABAKA ' S FIGH TER MAN OF YACK ER ( IMP DK ) ( MU LTI C H C AB A KA 'S YAC KER OF M CC OY X D K CH C AB A KA 'S KA NDY OF K INGO) DOB: 11/02/05 TO P MA LE IN IR EL AND 2007 W INS IN 2 0 0 7 : CC : Bi r min gham N a t i on a l M a y 2 0 0 7 J u dg e : R o b i n N e w h o u s e ( An n e c y ) CC : Be l f a s t C h S h o w S e p t 2 00 7 J u d ge: D en i s Coxal l Gr o u p 2 : B el f a s t C h S h o w S e p t 2 00 7 J u d ge: Ha ns Van D en Be rg ( NL) Photo by John D Jackson Hips 6-6; current eye certs; super sire! Digby won his fourth CC at Manchester. Four CCs in 10 months! Thank you to all the judges for this terrific time. Also to Beverly for breeding him, to Anita for handling him to his third CC, and to Piper and Dawn for producing him! So proudly owned and loved by Marene Sillence and Thelma Theed Tel: 023 8081 2763 Useful information General information: Crufts main Information Centre is situated opposite the entrances to Halls 3 and 3a. Please note that unfortunately NO DOGS other than those that have been invited by the Kennel Club are permitted into the show. Arena seating: Admission tickets now include Arena seating for up to 6,000 visitors. Apart from the Best in Show programme which requires an additional ticket and subject to availability. Bank: National Westminster Bank Plc has a branch situated on the Piazza at the NEC. For opening hours, please contact the bank directly. BES T IN S H OW: Iri s h S a m oy e d C l u b B r e e d C h S h ow : J u n e 2 0 0 7 J ud ge : H azel F i tzg i bb on ( Sm i li es am UK ) ● Top Labrador Puppy 2007 ● 12 x PBIB ● BPIS United Retriever Ch ● BPIS NW Labrador Ch ● BPIS 3 Ridings Labrador Open Owned & Bred by Judith Charlton Email: [email protected] Be st Oppo s it e Se x: R i c h m o n d C h S h ow S e p t 2 00 7 J u d ge : L e n n a r t S t a h l e ( Swe) RAMCHAINE TOP BREEDER 2007 SH CH RAMCHAINE RUBELLITE JW 4 CCs 2 RCCs SH CH REMINGTON REQUISITE OF RAMCHAINE 9 CCs 3 RCCs TOP BROOD BITCH 2007 proudly congratulates her offspring on their achievements: Ramchaine Essential JW 2 CCs Ramchaine Eidolon 1 CC 1 RCC Ramchaine Green Glow by Fenwood JW 4 CCs 3 RCCs Ramchaine Green Glitter 2 CACs & 6 Res CACs Ramchaine Isaac JW Ramchaine Inga La Fenwood JW CHARMAINE ENNIS-WHELAN www.RAMCHAINE.co.uk Creche: A children's crèche will be available during the show. All lost children should be taken to, or collected from, the children's crèche. Cloakroom: Situated in the Piazza at the NEC near the main entrance. Luggage can also be left at them. Discover Dogs: Over 190 different breeds of pedigree dog to get better acquainted with in the Discover Dogs area. Export enquiries: The Overseas Lounge or the Kennel Club main information stand are able to deal with all export enquiries. Filming & photography: Commercial cinematography and television equipment may only be used at Crufts if a permit has been issued by the Organisers. There are also certain restrictions on the use of cameras for still photography and private video films. Full details of these and filming permits L ove d & Ow ned by J o an & J oh n D u f f u s & G i tt e M or el l 68 Kensington Manor, Dollingstown, Craigavon, Co Armagh E mail : [email protected] Website: www.kynochsamoyeds.com He also won another 14 Green Stars (10 with BOB) & 3 CACIB. T han k yo u to a l l the j ud ges w ho mad e 2 00 7 a sp eci al year fo r u s w i th th e To p Mal e & Top F emal e i n I rel an d. may be obtained from the Press Office, Crufts, 1-5 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London W1J 8AB. Postal facilities: The Royal Mail post office is situated on the Piazza at the NEC. Prams: Prams or push-chairs may be admitted and wheeled around the Show. The Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry to prams or push-chairs if it is felt that the Halls are overcrowded. Press centre: The Crufts press centre is situated in the Toute Suite in front of the main doors at the NEC and facilities are available to accredited press only. Restaurants: Several restaurants will be open to the public during the opening hours of the show. Castleavery Crufts Classic 2008 www.ourdogs.co.uk Scrabo Tower Photo by J Gilliland Swedish Vallhunds Home of title makers and record breakers From our very first litter in 2001, and from only three litters, castleavery have bred 10 champions worldwide. These title include five UK champions, as well as Lux, Bel, Int, Ir, NL, NZ champions, and the very first American champion bitch. Vallhunds were only recognised in the USA in June ’07, and Am Ch Castleavery Storm Shimmer gained her Am title in only four shows, winning all majors and BOBs. Tia , C Storm Shimmer wins BOS AT WESTMINSTER CH SHOW NEW YORK, 2008, this was the first time Vallhunds were scheduled at WESTMINSTER, TIA again has made breed history. Her brother Multi Ch Castleavery Storm Shadow, now holds five Ch titles. He has also been top winning Vallhund in Holland in ’06 and ’07, taking Group 2 at Genk Int Show, and Group 3 at Belgium Winners Int Show.We have also won Top Breeders award in the UK and Ireland for the last three years. This includes: Top Stud and Top Brood for the last four years. GB & Ch and Ir Ch C Fire Cracker, aka “Cracker” DOB 8/11/05 AN CH IR 07 CW 07 Top Bitch in UK.07 77 Scrabo Tower Photo by J Gilliland Top Pastoral Brood Bitch ’04/’05 Runner up All Breeds ’05 Breeders of the Crufts BOB winners ’04, ’05, ’06 Breeders of the top winning Vallhunds in the UK and Ireland ’04, ’05, ’06. Breeders of the CC record holding bitch and dog To date, Castleavery owned and bred dogs have attained 73 CCs. With too many other wins to mention. Congratulations to Rodney Donnan on making up Ir Ch Castleavery Fire Dragon. ‘Vinne’ is a brother to cracker Quality puppies sometimes available Look out for the new Castleavery Gold litter in the ring in April 2008. Good luck to all, and thank you to everyone who has chosen to own a Castleavery dog/bitch – we know they have done you and us proud. Photo by J Gilliland Ch and Ir Ch, Castleavery Fire Cracker. Photo by J Gilliland 3 CCs 1 BOB Top Winning Bitch in UK 2007 Top Vallhund in IR 07 and Annual Champion IR. CW 07 only 2 years old. We would like to thank the judges to date who have thought so highly of Cracker, Manchester 07 CC Linda Fisher, Breed judge - Blackpool 07 CC and BOB Alec McKenzie - Breed Judge, Darlington 07 CC Steve Hall - Alrounder. Ir Ch Westorps Errol Flynn in Castleavery (Swed Imp) We are proud to announce Cracker’s father Swed Imp, Ir Ch Westorps Errol Flynn in Castleavery. He also has three CACIBs and, in five shows in the UK, he has won 2 RCCs, one at Crufts. Tor has already produced two champions in his first litter: the Fire litter. Tor has also attained one G2 and two G4s in Ireland ’07 Photo by J Gilliland KC Accredited Breeder since 2003 “CASTLEAVERY FOR BREEDING WINNERS” Quoted from the very famous ZANGERSHEIDE SHOW JUMPING STUD FARM in Belgium. All our dogs are Hip Scored and eye tested Mrs Karen Gilliland The Bridge Castleavery Comber Road Co Down BT23 4QS Tel: 028 9181 8411 [email protected] www.castleavery.com Castleavery would like to thank all the judges who have thought so highly of their dogs 78 Crufts Classic 2008 JUMBEEDEN GUINNESS (2005) www.ourdogs.co.uk MERRYWOOD RISING STAR AVEC CHIKARAMOR 18/10/06 “Parys” the Pyrenean Sheepdog A fabulous first year to her showing career, with many, many wins at open & champ shows, including: BEST AVNSC PASTORAL SOUTHERN COUNTIES – MR S MALLARD BEST AVNSC WORKING & PASTORAL SCOTLAND – MR S HALL GREEN STAR @ CLONMEL – HON L GAVERT-AUPLAND (SWEDEN) BEST AVNSC PASTORAL BELFAST – MRS B BANBURY RES BEST AVNSC HOUND & PASTORAL DRIFFIELD – MR P WILKINSON We would like to thank all the judges who have thought so highly of “Parys”. Lovingly owned, cherished & adored by Sue Morley LEMONA SPECIAL EDITION AT TOPSTAGE EX JUMBEEDEN DANCE A DREAM DOG CC NATIONAL TERRIER 2007 CC MANCHESTER 2008 DAM TOP SEALYHAM BROOD BITCH 2007 Proudly Owned & Bred by Miss Jumbo Frost MIRACEY SH I H T Z U HERONSVIEW CHEVROLET LAD Sealyham Puppy Co-ordinator - Mrs Margaret Longmate Tel. 01964 562525 MIRACEY CINNAMON SPICE (SIENNA) 1 CC at SKC 2007 Judge - Miss F Clifford TOP PUPPY IN BREED 2007 Thanks to all the judges who have thought so highly of ‘Sienna’ CH SOCORRO FEEL ME TOUCH TOP RARE BREED TIBETAN MASTIFF PUPPY OF 2007 M E AT M I R A C E Y JW (LOUIS) C.C. at Belfast 2006 - Judge Mrs Brenda Banbury C.C. BOB at SKC 2007 - Judge Miss Fleur Clifford C.C. BOB at LKA 2007 - Judge Mrs Betty Williams & 2 RCC’s Tracey & Michael Hitt - Tel. 01443 440870 Email: [email protected] M a n y t h a n k s t o a l l t h e Ju d g e s w h o h a v e t h o ug h t s o h i g h l y o f Lo ui s Owned and shown by Mrs W Stratford. HERONSVIEW CHEVROLET LAD (“Chevy”) is the son of HERONSVIEW FEARLESS ANGEL and SIERRAS’ YOGANANDA (imp), great grandson of HERONSVIEW DOWNTOWN BOY (“Kaos”), who was top winning Tibetan mastiff of his time. “Chevy” has received Best Puppy and Reserve Best Dog in every Championship Show in 2007 that he has entered, and hopefully will continue to win and follow his dad’s and great grandad’s achievements. Thank you to all judges who have judged in the ring. Wendy Stratford Email: [email protected] Web: www.heronsviewchevroletlad.webeden.co.uk www.ourdogs.co.uk Crufts Classic 2008 79 80 Crufts Classic 2008 SPRINCOT SHAR-PEI www.ourdogs.co.uk Pedigree Masterfoods/Our Dogs Irish Red and White Setter Top Puppy 2007 HOME OF TOP PUPPY IN BREED VIEWLAND ACE OF HEARTS (ACE) SPRINCOT RETURN TICKET (MOG) Proudly owned by Val and David Wade Tel: 01422 843307 and bred by Miss Maureen Whitaker ASQUANNE GINELLE JW Sh Ch Asquanne Gillespie JW ex Asquanne’s Graynene MOG HAS GAINED: 2CCs 2RCCs 1BEST OF BREED AND GROUP 2 UTILITY PUPPY ALL BY THE AGE OF 12 MONTHS MOG IS THE HIGHEST WINNING PUPPY IN THE BREED TO DATE Margaret Warrington www.sprincotkennels.co.uk Photo by Photocall In Megan’s first 10 months of showing she gained 3 BPIB, 2 RCCs and many high awards at Open Shows. Many thanks to all judges who thought so highly of her. Rosalind Caffrey: [email protected] Catherine Dodds: [email protected] Mary H Davies [email protected] - 01269 594738 Photo by Lisa Croft Elliott ERM YN CO RG IS HAV E HA D S OM E G OOD W INS AT TH EIR F IRS T FE W SH OWS “Aiming for the best for our breed .... working for dual capability” SH CH KIRKARA TOMMY GUN Clumber Spaniel 04 02 2005 Top Sire 2007 Bred for temperament, and good looks Thanks to all judges who have thought so highly of Tommy We would like to congratulate all his son and daughters on their constant wins Proudly owned, shown and hugged by Alastair Sara and Kath Kirkman Telephone 01204 709631 Email: [email protected] CH AUS CH PEPERONE SOLID GOLD 7 CCs 2 RCCs Top Sire 2007 Owned by Mr and Mrs J McLeod Sovaroma Ruby Tuesday - “Thelma” Quarr Hincheslea Wood x Sovaroma Topsy Turvy DoB: 25/10/2006 TOP PUPPY IN BREED 2007 Van B en net t “ S un nyba nk s” , Wo o dlan ds F ar m, Bag be r S tu rm ins te r Ne wt o n, D o rse t. D T1 0 2H S T el: 012 58 472 785 w ww . so va ro mas us sex. c o. u k CHAMPION MALIA VALENTINE AT CHANGSTE Photo by Roger Almond Born 27/9/2006 L IZZIE WA S BI S AT YO RKS H IRE & PEN N INE C ORGI C LUB C H S H OW TH IS YE AR , A N D OUR 'W IN GS' PUP PIE S Tel: 01908 671568 MANY OTHER CLASS WINS AT BOTH OPEN AND CHAMPIONSHIP SHOWS SC CH SLAPESTONES TORNADO X BALCRAIG MISTY MELODY 8 45 Deacon Place, Middleton, Milton Keynes PLUS GELLYBURN DAMSELFLY JW N OW A V ET ERA N 2 2 CC S A ND HIS DAUGH TER C H E W INGE D LOVE ( LIZZIE ) C C' S WO N 6 CC 'S 3 WIT H BOB & 6 RC C' S B E TWE EN TH E M L AS T YE AR Owned and bred by Alan Bowering and Penny Evans S O VA R O M A S U S S E X G UBNRAELETDTSO FPOBRR1E2E DYEERASR SA L L S PA N I E L S Top breeder WFeeaimtuarrianngeTrospaDnodgG2u0n0d7o g Group 200 7 Junior Stakes Finalist Anne and Alan Webster, Lilac Cottage, Cliffe Hill, Stanton-under-Bardon, Markfield, Leicestershire LE67 9TE Tel: 01530 249952 C H ERMYN WI NG A ND A PRAYE R (*subject to KC approval) Best Puppy - Southern Counties 2007 (Mrs C Muirhead) Best Puppy - Three Counties 2007 (R Hall-Jones) Best Puppy - Kingston Canine 2007 (Mrs S Appleby) Gundog Puppy Group 4 - Kingston Canine 2007 (Ms R V Wilcock) Best Puppy - National Gundog 2007 (Mrs T Short) Best Puppy - Bournemouth 2007 (Mrs K Gorman) Best Puppy - Welsh KC 2007 (C Brown) Top winning Cocker Spaniel Puppy 2007 Two Reserve CCs Pet Plan J O I NT W IN N ER TOP B REED ER 2 00 7 01283 815640 PENKHALA’S NARYAN JW* Best Puppy in Breed for 2007 Owned by Roger and Carol Almond Bred by Lynne Short Top Breeder 2007 Our Dogs/Pedigree comp Malia Tibetan Spaniels, 30 Dulverton Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE13 0SF Tel 01664 852013 E. Mail [email protected] CH GILNOCKIE ATTITUDE Top CC Winning male Whippet 2007 Attitude is sired by my black with white trim dog Peperone Pace Setter at Gilnockie, who also had a good year, winning the dog ticket at Bath from the Veteran class I hope to have a litter from Attitude’s litter sister Gilnockie Aspect of Love Stud book no 1241cs Thanks to every one who helped make 2007 such a special one Owned and loved by Anita Turner 01228 674778 email [email protected] SH CH GUNALT CONTRADICTION 4 CCs 2 Gundog Groups Championship Shows Pet Plan Junior Stakes Final runner-up All at 14 months of age We will not be showing at Crufts due to judging commintments at Crufts Enquiries Stephen and Patsy Hollings Gunalt Weimaraners, Carlton Hall Farm, Carlton, Yeadon, Nr Leeds - Tel: 0113 250 5113 stephen&[email protected] www.gunaltweimaraners.co.uk Ten things you need to know about OUR DOGS online OUR DOGS has been online for eight years ALL our pages can be read in digital format We have online search facilities All our show reports are archived online All our breed notes go back to 2002 There are 3,940 inbound links to OUR DOGS web site Nearly 25,000 people receive our FREE e-mail newsletter each week The Classifieds and Breeder Directory are the most popular pages OUR DOGS has over 10,000 pages in its free section alone In January 2008 nearly 140,000 people visited the homepage