Am I the only miserable ingrate who is totally underwhelmed by endless shots of running trousers (but no dog), curiously angled shots of dogs (ears or a muzzle only while the commentator describes wonderful flowing movement...), totally crap quality of picture, etc.

Shoot me down, but if I ever needed a reason not to visit dfs I now have thousands. That constant blasting of giant 'think sofa, think dfs' signs has aggravated me to the point of switching off. :(

I couldn't agree more.

dfs=dog free show

> dfs=dog free show

Love it !!

Peanuts

The whole tv coverage has been absolute rubbish but at least for the last two nights you have seen all of the best of breeds at the beginning of the breed judging .
On thursday evening  we never even got to see the working or pastoral best of breeds only the final cut and you don,t even get to see any hands on judging only the last move up and down if you are lucky.
Crufts is all about flyball or agility these days.
I,ve not even seen the GSD best of breed yet.

There was a lot of people complaining on the KC's Facebook webpasge how there wasn't enough coverage of the group judging. I think that could be why they improved it slightly (But not by much) on the final 2 days.

I thought my computer settings were wrong when you could only see the handler and top of the dogs heads etc in the live streaming.

Did the cameraman not realise that the camera should have been at waist height to catch the  dogs and sod the handlers.