Crufts ticket draw blog

Today was the big day I did the draw to decide who won the Crufts tickets.
To make it a fair chance for everyone Dad wrote down all the names down in number order of all the correct emails received. Dad downloaded a random number generator app for his phone.

This was Mom showing me the phone whilst out on our walk to prove it was all fair.
Mom pressed the phone at 12.15 and the first two numbers were 4 then 3.

This means the winners were;

Kryssy , Bedfordshire
And
Carol, Stoke on Trent

Congratulations guys hope you have a fantastic day!

Would love to see a photo of you having fun. My hoomans are going on Sunday so they may see you there or at the tweet up (blog will tell you where we are meeting)

3 weeks till Crufts starts blog

Hoomans getting excited as its only 21days until Crufts starts at the NEC Birmingham. Ticket information at

http://www.crufts.org.uk/ticket-office

But all under 8's get in free (hoomans only)

Not long until the greatest dog show on the world this year over 26,000 dogs are heading to the NEC in Birmingham. Of these dogs 1.388 from overseas countries (38 countries represented such as Germany, Latvia, Canada and USA and the first time from Chile)
I hope they don't walk there or there will be nothing left of them.
Doggie Passports please !

There is so much going on at Crufts ;

Breeders competition (49 teams 196 dogs)
Discover dogs (find out more about the dog breed that would be suited to your lifestyle)
Friends for life (heart warming stories that make the hoomans cry)
Good dog citizen dog scheme ring
Agility (I'm no good at that I walk round the tunnel not through it)
Obience (us greyhounds when we feel like it if it's not a cat or squirrel)

Of course 4 days of judging the individual breeds to get a grand champion.

This was years winner a flat coated retriever called Jet incidentally last year was the 120th time the kennel club had organised Crufts.

But you can't forget the huge variety of doggie things to buy from leads, collars , treats (nom nom!) toys (hope they get us another tuffie toy(the one from Christmas still has all its squeaks ) and much more.

I hope this has wet your appetite to go in the meantime

For other information about Crufts
Crufts is on facebook

http://www.facebook.com/crufts

Twitter -

#Crufts
http://twitter.com/KCLovesDogs

Waseley hills RGT walk 2 blog

Hoomans had a lovely cooked breakfast and saved Star and I a sausage for after our walk.

30 minutes in the car to Waseley Hills country park. £1.20 into the machine for all day parking and jackets on for our walk.
Stat received her new AK Creation jacket yesterday. I already have one we had loads of people on the walk saying they were smart and where to get them from.

As you can see we are a smart looking pair. Fortunately hoomans had the sense not to have jackets that clashed.
There was about 45 of us it was cold with some snow under our paws. The fog was covering the views. After a 40 minute walk around the park we descended the field back to the car.

Hoomans were lucky in the raffle last but 1 prize - biscuits or greyhound notebook. Had the notebook! We got a sausage nom nom !
Time for a trip back in the car and snooze time!

2 days left to Win a pair of Crufts tickets !

I have two pairs of Crufts tickets valid for any of the four days to give away in a simple competition.

I'm a retired greyhound the question is;
What day will greyhounds be judged at Crufts 2012 ?

Please email me the answer along with your name and address.

rolohound14@gmail.com

Closing date 18th February and draw to be made on Sunday 19th February 2012.
** please note this competition has been brought forward to allow tickets to be sent in the post and to allow time for tickets to be bought if unsuccessful (would hate for you to miss out) **

* UK entries only*

For other information about Crufts

http://www.facebook.com/crufts

Twitter -

#Crufts
http://twitter.com/KCLovesDogs

Worcester woods country park walk blog

This mornings walk was on a new place. Worcester woods country park with Hall Green RGT dogs rehoming centre. That meant a 40 car drive or in my case 40 minutes more shut eye!

Mom had to hold us both why Dad had a tiddle. Apparently hoomans aren't supposed to pee up trees in the woods - oh how boring!
23 dogs (4 wearing we need homes jackets) and hoomans. We went through the woods which weren't too muddy in a loop. After a 40 minutes we arrived back at the cafe.

The cafe was packed its a award winner so the Q must equal that. The raffle was drawn and for a change the hoomans didn't win anything. Star decided to bark at some dogs off the lead but Dad fed us both Wagg tasty bones to keep us quiet. The weather was kind to us so we had a lovely time !

Symply dog food blog

Christmas maybe over for humans but it still continues for me. I'm eating turkey twice a day in the form of turkey kibbles or Symply large dog turkey and rice dog food.
If I don't like it there's a 100% money back guarantee. But I do so it won't be needed.

The kibbles are nice circular in shape and still retain there shape when wet with water(the way I like it ! )

My hooman liked it for many reasons
It has a great guide on how much to give me when changing me over from my old food to this gradually. As well as the label saying what it's good for;
All natural , skin & coat, wheat gluten free, joint health, dental care and it's British !

The protein contact is 26% which is slightly higher than a Greyhound is advised by many books. I've been on it for a couple of weeks and I haven't suddenly become hyperactive or mad. The good news for the hoomans is the other end is solid so scooping is easy and no smelly windy (or carpet bum as my hoomans call it)
For price information and a list of other flavours they do go to Pets Corner website. 

Barley's New Years Day blog

Happy new year everyone!

Hoomans had new neighbours flippin noisy party they had plus they spoke funny (Polish). As we are spoilt hounds Dad left chill fm on sleep on the stereo to try and hide the party news and the fireworks. Dad put 60 minutes on the timer, as if it takes that long for a hound like me to fall asleep! Bol !

Not much sleep for any of us though (1.30-6.30) as we were off 100 miles down south to Barley's kennels in Waltham Abbey. These are the kennels I first went to when I retired from my racing days at Romford, Essex.

Virtually no traffic on the motorways so we made it in 2 hours in plenty of time for the 10 open with the walk at 10.30.

About 10 other hounds arrived so as there were plenty of volunteers all the kennel dogs were taken out. My French grandparents got given dogs also. Grand mommy got Lily 15 months and grandad got Shannon 11 months old.

The walk lasted about 50 minutes across the fields and into the woods which were very muddy at times. I remembered where I was and the kennel guys were really pleased to see me.

Hoomans spent some money on fridge magnets and keyrings. The raffle was drawn and we won a really good basket of goodies. Wine, chocolates and Pringles for hoomans and treats for us hounds.

Hoomans had a picnic in the car whilst we crashed out. It was lovely to go back to my old kennels but I love my forever home more !