Crufts

Helen · Crufts

Anyone going and does anyone want to meet up?

I'm showing Teal in the breed class, as well as the keepers class, with Pippa.

Helen

josie

Good luck to all those going! (We won't be there.)

I just got an email through, sent to a bunch of other HPRers as well, and it says this, if anyone's interested:

"Docking issue

At the Westminster Show people with docked breeds were wearing mauve ribbons in support of Docking. It has been suggested that docked breed supporters here do a similar thing at Crufts."

Mike

I'll be there hanging around the Weimaraner ring (probably on or very close to the bench of Kasmegs Harleys Hero entered under the name of K.Scott) I am also going to see if I can find the BASC ring this year as I failed miserably last year Sad

guy

Topaz is in breed class and working gundog. Barley was in working dog but was killed by a car last week. we will also be doing Discover dogs on Friday along with Ellie a pup we are fostering for a week or so - maybe longer Smile

love to put names to faces.

Perhaps there needs to be 'forum' member identifier? double white ribbon??

josie

Guy, that is awful news about Barley Sad

Our condolences, you must be so upset, poor Barley. Sad

Helen

Oh no Guy. I'm sorry Sad

Helen

guy

thanks - yes i was very upset. Despite being a 'house' dog, who would feign hurt if he trod on a thistle he got deeply under my skin and into my heart. I have never met a dog that was so 'loving'. He had a habit of reversing behind my knees when i was sitting down, and if i sat on the floor he was there for a cuddle - but his idea of a cuddle was to burrow in as close as he could.

i have had dogs put down before and although hard is always n the dogs best interest dso is much easier to handle. To have had him at my feet and then five minutes later pick him up off the road after a hit and run was to say the least unreal if not surreal.

Julia and I have been very touched by the number of people who have given support on a forum, by email and by phone. There have been many words of kindness and understanding that have helped us through the last week. As they helped me I have pasted some of them below so they may in turn help others.

Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me,
On thy bosom let me rest,
More I would, but Death invades me;
Death is now a welcome guest.
When I am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
No trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.

Purcell. Dido and Aeneas.

"If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to disentangle them"

Our animals have shorter lives than us as they were only ever meant to be borrowed. The Great Gundog calls them to him when he feels their work is accomplished.

Death ends a life, not a relationship

The best place to bury a dog is in the heart of his master

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn's rain. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there, I did not die...

I have to console myself with the thought he had a year more life than he could have expected considering his earlier behaviour, he enriched my life and that of many others and he will stay in my memory in his prime. He was a special dog who i had the privilege to know.

Fate weaves a strange and detailed fabric. The dog we are 'fostering' ,probably on a permanent basis, has a registered name of Noirleau Barley and was born only a few days after we first had Barley himself - how fickle of fate is that?

Mike

Guy,
Deeply saddened to hear of your loss, I never know what to say at times like this.

Will be thinking of you in the coming days and keep an eye out for you at Crufts.

Mike

munstyman

Guy,
I am so sorry to hear the news of Barley, will be thinking of you at this sad time.
Peter

münstermanager

oh Guy

we're so very sorry to hear your awful news about Barley

our thoughts are with you all

Sue & Ian

tashap

I'm supposed to be going but my dog has come into season, I've had a couple of blood tests done today that were extorsionate to see when she is most likely to be at her best time for mating and it looks like its around wednesday/thursday have done another blood test today because you have to do them daily to get the 100% results.

I'd normally just leave her with my mum if I want a day out so could have gone just for the shopping but my spaniel is at home and I don't want any little accidents crate or no crate.

weima

Are you planning to mate Bonnie then?

Rhimad

Hi Guy

So sorry to hear about Barley, its an awful thing to have to go through.

Trace

guy

Many thanks to you all for you thoughts.

tashap

No not this time round would much rather she'd been able to go to crufts but she possibly will be at some point because I want a dog back to replace her when she retires.