We had great pleasure in handing over £250 to Mrs. Penny Parker of the Guide Dog puppy walkers from the proceeds of our Christmas raffle...

The Great British Dog Show

GREAT BRITISH DOG SHOW

The Great British Dog Show was a huge success, lots of people came with their dogs and enjoyed all the fun and games of the big day:

Five Chairties came along with stalls promoting their care and support of animals in the community: Blue Cross, RSPCA Martlesham branch, Guide Dogs, Cats Protection and Suffolk Animal Rescue.Penny Parker from the Guide Dog puppy walkers gave a presentation on all the great work that her and her colleagues do to bring up dogs ready for training.Penny Parker with Stirling the Guide Dog Puppy and Umber

Blue Cross, Complete the Dream StallProtection stall

RSPCA Martlesham Branch Stall

Suffok Animal Rescue Stall

Thanks to everyone who came along and helped to make it all happen. Several of our drug companies donated large prizes to: Virbac, Bayer, Vetplus, Vetquinol, Alstoe; and special thanks to Joseen, from Merial, for coming along and promoting the preventation and treatment of fleas and ticks.

Mrs. Thompson Carr had the difficult job of judging the dog show, it was hard work in the heat, and she had some very tough decisions. We hope everyone went home happy and we thank her for doing a fantastic job.

Winners and runner up of the dogs shows for the:
The Best Puppy

1stBuddy, belonging to Mrs. Smith

2nd Sadie, belonging to Mrs. Pocoka
3rd Tilly, belonging to Mrs. Soames
The Prettiest Bitch

1stMillie, belonging to Mr. Malcolm Scrivener

2nd and 3rd

Mika, belonging to Mrs. Woods on the right came 2nd and Betty on the left came third

The Hansomest Dog

1st

Oliver, belonging to Mr. Thorne
2nd

Jack, belonging to Miss Conners
3rd

Arthur, belonging to Mrs. Simmonds

The Veteran Class

1stJessie, belonging to Mrs. McSweeny

2ndBilly, belonging to Mrs. Algar

3rdBertie, belonging to Mr. Harper

The Best Rescue:

1st

Lizzy, belonging to Miss ErisBody
2ndBilly, belonging to Mrs. Algar

3rd

Billy, belonging to Mrs. Webster

The Waggiest tail:

1st

Pudding, belonging to Miss. Smith
2ndAlfie, belonging to Mrs. Driver

3rdJess, belonging to Mrs.McSweeny

The six first-placed dogs:The Great British Dog Show winner was :Millie, an Italian Greyhound belonging to Mr. Malcolm Scrivener

The unusual antics of Leonardo and Dolgardo performing a dance routine and play fight was a very amusing and amazing how they didn't overheat.Thanks to Tom and Pat judged the cat photo competition another very difficult task.
And the winners and runners up for the different categories were:

Golden Oldies: 1st place was Stripey owned by Mr. Beeson
2nd place was Gizzy and Larry owned by Mrs. Stirling Yeatman

Work Rest and Play: 1st place was Melek-kie owned by Mrs. Daniels
2nd place was Blue owned by Mrs. Munro

Cutest Kitten: 1st place was Ted owned by Mrs. Munro
2nd place was Ebony owned by Mrs. Liffen

Some clips of the Dog Dash can be seen on You Tube, type in Great British Dog Show and part 1 and 2 come up.
1st place in the small dog category was Jimmy Moreton (4.53sec)
1st place in medium-large dog category and fastest overall was Dudley Pipard (3.28sec)
1st place in the veteran category was Indie Minter (4.40sec)

It was the biggest raffle we've organised and it was down to for selling so many tickets and surviving fluctuating temperatures.Big thanks for the Sausage shop and Roberto's Ices for all the catering and also for the everyone who contributed a home made cake

Thank you to Alan for taking all the photos and also posting up a two clips on youtube go to this link if you'd like to watch it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjKVPIxbxus