CRUFTS 2014

On Wednesday afternoon, Johanna and I took off with Turner and Merly to Birmingham. OUr first stage was Calais, where we stayed in a small hotel on the beach. On Thursday, early in the morning, we headed towards the Euro Tunnel. I booked a train ticket according to an advise from friends, but in the vet check was a gaping void so we were ready three hours earlier than planned and were even allowed to take the next train.

Then, the first left-hand traffic of my life ... has worked quite well except for one tiny incident. We are now trained also in roundabout for advanced! After a relaxing drive we arrived in Birmingham at the Hilton and arrived much earlier than planned to check in for our room. After a short walkies round, sleep was announced.

Then we met Felicia next door at the Crufts terrain, who had kindly brought us our sponsorship show leashes from "Art of Dee " from Denmark. Gorgeous leashes, we were absolutely thrilled to finally have it in our hands.

After a relaxing night, we went into the holly halls on Friday morning... We quickly found our place on the ring, could put everything away and take a look at the catalog.

Immediately after the veterans, it was Johanna and Turner’s turn. There were 3 dogs reported in the " Special Junior Dog" class, including our breeder Jenny Hall with Turner's full brother "Vaskurs Jack Sparrow Qonjacson".

The judge let the dogs run and then looked at each dog individually. Then she let them run again and again and finally let them line up. Something happened that never appeared to be possible for us... she waved Johanna in the first place! Oh my God, we were proud! A dream came true...

In the battle for the best male, it was again a little scarce. After the judge had chosen the father of our litter "Qiwi" and Jenny as BEST OF BREED Winner, she chose the reserve male between the beautiful 5 year old "Farik" - Reedly Road Enjoy the Silence and our Turner.

Farik got the deserved Reserve CC, we still have so much time ;-)

Then, it was about Merly and Johanna 's turn. There were reported 11 females in the "Post Graduate Class", 7 were actually showed up. The two did their job great as usual. Despite the really tough competition, Merly and Johanna ran up a fantastic second position behind the famous Maria Evteeva.

A fantastic show day came to an end. It was great to meet Jenny and Jocke and after more than a year of seeing many of our dogs siblings and most of all "Qiwi". We are looking forward to the next reunion!

After a long show day we went back to the tunnel and after a night at the port of Folkestone, we took of towards home on Saturday morning. The joy was huge in all of our dogs at our return.