I'm new on her and don't know if many of you have hounds but is anyone else going to the hound association champ show at Stafford in August?

I'll be going with my whippets

Freyja -Barnesmore Killer Queen at oakmoorehill will be going in Open Bitch it will be my first champ show with her and Owen- Barnesmore Yesterday is in Post grad dog . My son Ben is also doing JHA 12-16 years with Freyja .It will be is first time handling her

Hiya yep we'll be going with our girl as well i love the houndshow, hopefully the weather will be good

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Paula
Grifdegalles

Oh I wish I was closer, that's something I'd love to go to with my two! Will you take pics?

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I'm Sarah, and these are my furbabies!

piccies will be yours we go more to see the all the hounds, we just show our girl as an excuse to go

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Paula
Grifdegalles

My passes came for Owen and Freyja yesterday have you had yours yet?

yep mine came as well still waiting for the leeds passes though and that sow is a few days before the houndshow

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Paula
Grifdegalles

I didn't enter Leeds

we went last year and we had such a laugh, it was like a mud bath there, we were slip sliding everywhere mind you we were in the ring late and trying to keep our girl clean was a nightmare, when she'd been in she rewarded herself with a mega mud roll

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Paula
Grifdegalles

A friend of mine went with a mostly white whippet she spent most of the day carrying him round to keep him clean or her husband did. Mind you they were rewarded when he won the dog CC.

Thats the only good thing about whippets we start early and have a ring to ourselves some time 2 judges unfortunately the size of the entries makes it hard to qualify for crufts. At Birmingham National I only took a greyhound we were in the schedule at one time on the paper that came with the passes at another time and in the catalogue at another time we eventually went in the ring at 3.30pm having arrived at 9am expecting to be in early and we were in the tents were it was sweltering too

we have low entries with the gbgvs so we're usually plonked in the middle of the day, at the skc last year we were last in the ring and we were there all day but we were staying in scotland so it wasn't bad, this year we drove up and down in one day but we were pretty early in the ring so we were home for 7ish mind you the 4am start had us shattered

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Paula
Grifdegalles