Up and out early today! The Min-Pins are in the ring at 9am and we want a good seat. This is Jan's breed and there's 132 dogs to see- yikes! In England the first class is always the veteran dogs (8 yrs old or more). Then they move onto the Puppy dogs- but wait- they don't proceed simply by age from class to class, but by how many points you've previously won, so the classes can be somewhat more mixed than we're used to here in the states. They show "rare colors" here- I'd never seen a "blue" Min-Pin before. Jan adopted a 10 yr old girl and her mother who are interested in learning to show, so I got the benefit of her many years in the breed while she coached them thru the show. Barb was over at the bulldog ring taking some movies for friends back home. Finally at 4pm it was time to get in line for the "Best in Show". Security immediately removed the wheeled bag Barb had been dragging about for 3 days, filling it with all her "finds". No room in the arena for all the extra "stuff." The show started off with the team agility finals. A "medium" sized dog posted the fastest time of the evening on a very tight and twisty course. Alot of dogs and several handlers slipped and fell on the carpet. There were several nice presentations to service dogs, then the toy and utility groups were judged to bring the BOB competitors to 7 dogs. Mary Ray and 2 of her dogs, a BC and a shelty gave this years heel work to music show on an Indian theme- spectacular! Here is a link for some pics from the local news from Sunday's events http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/pictures/2011/03/14/crufts-2011-heart-melting-pics-from-the-final-day-115875-22989114/ Finally we got to Best of Show at about 8:30pm. A very nice line-up with the FlatCoated Retriever winning it all. http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/234491/Crufts-2011-Jet-retrieves-his-third-Crufts-win/ Here's a link to Crufts TV to see more of the action http://www.dfscrufts.tv/Video/
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