Following on from my last post with this ever so popular theme 😆

Today was Toy Day at Manchester Championship Show. I couldn’t go because mum won’t drive all that way at this time of the year, so usually I wouldn’t have entered Solei buuut he went under this particular judge as a puppy and she liked him then and he’s matured very nicely since, so I wanted to see what she thought of him now.

Last time was two and a half years ago. Solei was just shy of 11 months old at the time, and was entered in Junior – usually a dog that age would be in puppy. You can enter Junior from 6-18mths but unless you’ve got a particularly mature puppy (which he certainly wasn’t! The opposite in fact – he was a slow maturer) it’s unusual to put a dog under 12mths in junior. So at the age of 10 months, competing against considerably more mature dogs he got a 4th out of 11. The dogs placed 1st and 2nd in that class have both become champions this year (no easy feat here).

It’s usually the way that you enter under a judge that has placed your dog highly before thinking they like them and they end up not placing them! So I was hopeful but half expecting her to chuck him too.

Sarah is currently away (in season) and Solei went over yesterday afternoon, so I was dogless. I’ve never really been without them since I moved in here and I was missing him so much I really did almost say forget the show and go round and collect him last night.

Good job I didn’t because he got a 2nd in a large class of EIGHTEEN!! So he’s qualified for Crufts 2009 at the first show possible 😆 😆 From one extreme to the other! He beat some very nice dogs (Papillons of course) including Mac, so I’m absolutely ecstatic.

Tis a long way down from cloud nine 😉