Well someone has to do it!!
To everyone going to Crufts...the week starts now, washing, grooming, trimming, packing, and stressing out!!
I wish everyone the best of luck, I hope you all get what you want, be it shopping, placings, or higher honours.
May the best dogs win!! Whoop whoop ;) ;)
Aileen and the girlies xxx

I am getting excited now and have started my shopping list this morning.
I have been going to Crufts as an observer since I was around 19 years old and saved the bus fare from Glasgow as I didn't drive. Although I qualified last year I didn't go as I felt my wee girl wasn't good enough so this is my first time showing there and I am soooooo excited!
Good luck to everyone else going x

Took the car in for MOT this morning - fingers crossed not much needs doing, as I need it back for Sat and any repair costs will come out of my spending money! Good Luck all XX

I`m showing at crufts for the first time this year and so far it has been a bit like this....panic....excited...panic...excited..panic...panic.... breath into paper bag....excited....and back to panic again lol

Good luck to everyone hope you all have a great time whether it be showing or shopping (or both).

Wishing everyone luck in the show rings, wish I was going, but yet another year missed :( :(

Good luck everyone x im nervous now.

Good Luck everyone

I'm not going now so I hope you all do very well and have an enjoyable time up there xx

My nerves are mounting......................

Diane

I,m not going but the very best of luck to you all ,
enjoy yourselves and take care of your dogs I will be waiting eagerly for results especially  from the GSD ring
Sharon and Sengi (who came in season yesterday so good job she,s not entered)

> I will be waiting eagerly for results especially  from the GSD ring

Im nervous now, thats our ring.

I'm taking my daughter this year & she's going to be handling my girl in two classes.  She's only 7 & I did wonder if I was doing the right thing, but she has worked so hard to get a very clingy "mummy's girl" to pay attention to her - she's also braved the elements on shoot days with said dog!  The best thing about it is, I haven't told my daughter she is going to Crufts, let alone handling.  Can't wait to see her face :-D

Gonna take a chainsaw to my newfie's coat later on tonight to thin it out abit, he looks like a grizzley at the moment!!

Peanuts

Good luck everyone :)

It is our first year showing :) I am actually really nervous, but very excited....can't wait!

Ah maddog hope your little daughter does well, good luck to her and your dogs.

Good Luck everyone!! I've already started having my usual pre-Crufts dreams where I've forgotten the dogs, can only remember handling one in the ring etc, I actually wake up in a cold sweat before realising I haven't been yet. My other half thinks I'm mad lol

Good luck everyone! I have jsut started to show my pug and it would be a dream to get to crufts!! I dont think it will ever happen tho!

Fingers crossed for you all!!

xx

Lol biffsmum! I still remember the night before a summer holiday where I dreamed Henry had won the DCC, we were just going in to challenge for BOB when the alarm went off!! :-D

I just hope my superdog behaves himself - he was an absolute star last weekend and only got 6th, so it's not a good sign.....

I'll be there this year watching and shopping, qualified for next !

Good luck to all,hope dogs give their best.
Not going this year as KC is not allowing youngster to show again after his knee op, so much for qualifying at his first show!
Dog usually shown in Gamekeepers has just had surgery to remove blockage and has just come through that so he cannot go either.
At least I can watch it on TV and dream!!

Good luck to everybody showing!
I'm spectating Thursday & Friday, so looking forward to it, plus flying down so a 2 hour round trip instead of 18hours!!

Good Luck everybody and a special good luck to all the bullmastiff people entering this year, all my toes/ fingers/ eyes etc are crossed

Triona

Good Luck everyone :-) , I've just started showing my girlie and really hoping to qualify for Crufts 2011. 

I'll be watching as much as I can on-line this year, having a break from all the shopping (sigh) but wishing I was going.

> Good Luck everyone!! I've already started having my usual pre-Crufts dreams where I've forgotten the dogs, can only remember handling one in the ring etc, I actually wake up in a cold sweat before realising I haven't been yet. My other half thinks I'm mad lol

LOL...my recent dream has been my trousers falling down while moving round the ring!......... I would die!!....LOL

LOL @ Dexter... I have dreams like that too.

good luck everyone, I;m there showing on thursday and back with my gundog friends on sunday........really nervous about showing(again) but soooo looking forward to sunday, theres only 1 year out of 4 that I can go to working an gundog-and this is the year yippeeee

Everything is now ready, apart from our food and drink.
Van is filled up with diesel, water and oil checked, clean bedding in. Dogs bag packed.
Just got to get through work today and an early night tonight.
Showing the bulies tomorrow and going up on Saturday to watch the pugs and do the shopping. Can't wait.
Good luck to all that are showing and to those going to watch and shop have fun.
Karen.

Hope everyone has a great time at crufts.  I'm taking four dogs and thankfully meeting my daughter there so help is at hand for loo breaks and shopping.  Not looking forward to the drive down but as is usual once you get in the halls you forget how tired you are. :-)

I'm getting ready now too. Dog coat, bed, towel etc all washed. Bench guard, bowls, leads, poop bags all ready.
Going out to get OH a new shirt and tie today and will get bait and packed lunch stuff on Friday!!!! EXCITED NOW :-)

GOOD LUCK to eveyone.....hope is either someone I know or someone on Champdogs that wins!!! :-) :-)
Paula

Good Luck to everyone.....I am going Friday, and maybe Sunday.....Best of luck to everyone and safe journies there and back with all your winning tickets, and snapped up bargains.

Hi

Good Luck to everyone who is showing this year!! Its the first year Im not showing or even going due to work so Im gutted but hope you all have a fab time!!!!!

XX

Well gosh even im  excited for all of you, and i wish you all the best of luck xx,

I'll be watching on more 4,

you'r all champs in my eyes anyway and heres wishing you all the best xx cheers and good luck to all x

Good Luck to everyone.
We will be there thursday but only spectating :) :)
Lea :)

Well dog groomed and washed, car packed with doggie things (How is it dogs need so much stuff!) just me for the shower then pack my (Tiny) bag, and then we shall be off, thank goodness for the sunny day...makes driving so much better. Hope to see some of you there. Good luck to all.
Aileen

Good luck to you all - let us know your results

Well we are nearly ready, our bag packed (we are leaving today) dog bag packed, bedding in his crate, passes etc ready, OMG i feel sick now, good luck everyone.

Don,t forget to let us all know how well your dogs do can,t wait  its one of my favourite GSD judges.
good luck Annastasia especially but also to everyone else.
Sharon

Good luck to everyone and hope you all have safe journeys! Im not there until sunday so it will all be over for a lot of you by then, will be watching crufts tv for all the coverage.

Enjoy!

mel.x

Good luck everyone - we'll be watching (and shopping) on Sunday and hoping that we'll get there with a dog next year.....

Hope all your journeys are trouble free and the judges kind to you

My dreams started last night. The one where I got lost in the NEC, which is stupid because I know exactly where to go because we are in the same place every year! (in the door on the left, turn right, up the slope and to the back left corner of hall 4! Simple) Still not sure if I have one or two girls going, curse split seasons! Shes showing signs of stopping and no where near ovulating. Maybe she heard me say I was going to leave her at home!
My 'adoptive children' (Huskies) are in the ring today so rather nervous even tho Im not there. They were looking lovely when they left after grooming yeseterday......but can they stay clean??

Good Luck everyone!

> Can't wait to see her face :-D

A kodak moment I think!!

Good Luck to her..

Best wishes to all at Crufts.