Crufts

[Berk on a Bike]

These people really love the dogs, don't they...

[I suppose it proves the winner has feet and not castors]

 

[KEEF]

This is a dog

 

[Saluki]

Here is my old short coated Saluki, doing what dog's do.


I loved him beyond belief. He won lots of pet shows. Best veteran, best rescue, most handsome dog, dog that judges would like to take home, prettiest eyes and so on. Proper show classes

 

[Crackle]

Mine came third in Fetch the Sausage once. It was a real sausage and they had to fetch it back without eating it. He managed a few steps back before it was gone. Some dogs just legged it off the square with the sausage, owners in hot pursuit. Now that's a category you don't see at Crufts, shame.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Mine came third in Fetch the Sausage once. It was a real sausage and they had to fetch it back without eating it. He managed a few steps back before it was gone. Some dogs just legged it off the square with the sausage, owners in hot pursuit. Now that's a category you don't see at Crufts, shame.

To be honest I think I'd fail at that one...

 

[Crackle]

To be honest I think I'd fail at that one...

Me too, it was a hotdog. I nearly didn't throw it.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Should be more of this,

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHE4o9v1A8
then no doubt somebody would spoil it by doping the dogs to get them to go faster etc.

 

[Mark1978]

I had the "pleasure" of visiting the premises of a breeder of Yorkshire Terriers just a week before a Crufts show that they were entered in. I saw what must be a dozen or so dogs, in cages with their fur tied up into certain positions, all barking in what seemed like a stressful manner. I could only assume that they had been there a while already and that they would spend considerable time in those small cages in the run-up to Crufts. The lengths that humans go to in order to show how good they are at manipulating the looks of a dog is beyond me. I fully understand that some dogs are bred for specific purposes, but I imagine only a small amount were, in the past, bred the way they are for their looks. I'm all for breeding for purpose where the purpose is something that the dogs enjoy and is inherently useful to humans, but not this. Maybe gun-dogs in Crufts should compete in a way that shows how good they are at retrieving, and terriers for their ability to catch rats in barns.

I've been involved in the poultry show scene and bred birds to show, but found that there were too many people prepared to go to lengths that i wasn't prepared to go to in order to succeed. I wasn't happy with being associated with that and stopped showing last year. As awful as this poisoning is, it doesn't surprise me. A lot of the show scenes seem to be full of the vilest human beings I've met.

 

[Markymark]

I'm no animal lover but I think crufts is cruel. Some breeding leaves dogs barely able to live normally.

 

[Saluki]

Mine came third in Fetch the Sausage once. It was a real sausage and they had to fetch it back without eating it. He managed a few steps back before it was gone. Some dogs just legged it off the square with the sausage, owners in hot pursuit. Now that's a category you don't see at Crufts, shame.

That's a category that should be at Crufts.
Hubster thinks that for working dogs that they should be in a mocked up countryside setting and the one that catches the most rats, wins.

 

[Saluki]

After watching "Best in Show", dog shows never looked quite the same again.
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I watched a minute of that and could feel my brain atrophying. That dog must be bombproof. My dogs would have gone ballistic if there was that much yelling in their faces. I take is this was some sort of spoof programme?

 

[stephec]

That's a category that should be at Crufts.
Hubster thinks that for working dogs that they should be in a mocked up countryside setting and the one that catches the most rats, wins.

That's a good idea.

For cat shows it could be changed slightly to see how many dead birds they can leave on the doorstep.

 

[Bollo]

I had a Border Collie when I was a kid growing up in Northumberland. The Kennel Club breed standard for Collies is wrong, because it doesn't specify a great big lump of sheep sh1t attached to one or both ears.

 

[BrumJim]

I watched a minute of that and could feel my brain atrophying. That dog must be bombproof. My dogs would have gone ballistic if there was that much yelling in their faces. I take is this was some sort of spoof programme?

From the same film makers as Spinal Tap

 

[Saluki]

From the same film makers as Spinal Tap

Ah. That doesn't surprise me. I do feel sorry for that poor dog with all the yelling going on.