Crufts

Last weekend Peggy, Elsie and I ventured off to Birmingham to compete at Crufts.

At just 15 months old this was Elsie's first time at such a large show. She was such a good girl and took everything in her stride, working very hard for me indeed. 

Here she is holding her little duckie, whilst she was waiting to go and see the judge.

And here she is being seen by our judge who gave me some lovely feedback and commented on how pretty she is.

Elsie did not place in her class, but I was nonetheless very happy with her because she really did give it her all. Several dogs in our class decided that buckarooing instead of trotting around the ring was a good idea - can't blame them, it looked fun!

I could tell that my sweet girl really wanted to join in, but she knew she was there to work and showed off her impeccable manners perfectly.

Next in the ring was Peggy, and again she worked her little socks off for me.

The judge made us work really hard in this class and we had to run our dogs around the ring several times.

Ordinarily I'd have found this quite difficult, because of my asthma but having lost almost 2 stones to fit into the suit I wanted to wear, as soon as I started moving I could not stop grinning.

It felt great and my breathing was absolutely fine!

And somehow, in a very large class with several Champions in it, my little Peggy managed to bag herself a Reserve!

I honestly couldn't believe it and I'm still stuck somewhere between disbelief and stupidly excited!

Here's a video of our run.

I love how Peggy's tail wags the whole time we show. She really does enjoy it.

So I suppose we'll have to do it all again next year!