Hi , I have been watching this all morning and i am soo pleased that we can now watch crufts live , i am loving the friend for life ! so many amazing deserving dogs with thier owners.
Heres the thread if anyone wishes to watch .Its making me soo excited to go on saturday :)

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fcrufts&h=pAQFQzzD4AQGHiF3uN9NW6vY2fylJyh5Nwd1YWs5HloDy0g

Oh my goodness, how adorable is Widget the little rescue doing agility?  :)

Shame theres no breed judging. :(

i know , i have been checking fosse throughout the day :) wud have been nice to watch tho x

I remember reading somewhere that breed judging woudl be included, but it seems to be all main ring.  I don't see the point of watching handlers walk the course for agility - surely a mobile camera could be employed too to go round the breed rings etc?

I think the live streaming is mainly just the arena programme, haven't had the chance to watch yet as was grooming all morning and now need to get rid of hubby from his lunch hour before I can watch dog stuff! :-)

They did it at westminster. I Was spoiled for choice on what breed juding to watch on there live streeming, as you could choose what to watch. It's a pitty they cant do the same for Crufts

hi gwen , the crufts facebook page said they would be posting links for the breed juding , i dont know if that was for youtube or facebook tho, i keep checking but havnt seen anything yet.

did anyone see the dog that had a number 2's in the middle the agility poor lady after all that hard work, i've had it with my dog but in the middle of her doing a triangle lol poor women.
its good to see the live stuff but mine keeps buffering but still watching kids love it x

nessa

aww no i missed it , i have been glued to it all day aswell , well its on as i am pottering around the house lol my blade has been watching it , he keeps barking at laptop hahaha lol i can not wait to go on saturday my daughter is soo excited aswell x

Not very impressed with the streaming this year. Admittedly this computer is antediluvian, but the buffering is terrible and it also keeps repeating from the last cache, as well as jumping and sticking.
It's almost unwatchable.

Last year's streaming worked fine, as did the streaming from World Show and the one in Holland since then, on this same PC.

It wasn't a woman, it was a kid, it was the YKC agility finals, she took it very well bless her.

There was another little accident in another agility comp too

Oh yes, seeing the time nessstaffy posted it couldnt have been YKC ... sorry!

Of the Utility group I like the Akita, but i think the Standard Poodle might get it, he really showed well, although the affro's a bit much for me.

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> They did it at westminster. I Was spoiled for choice on what breed juding to watch on there live streeming, as you could choose what to watch. It's a pitty they cant do the same for Crufts

Yes, but Westminster is a very different thing, 1 class per breed, about 4000 dogs rather than 20,000.  They have a camera at each ring, and each breed follows into the ring quite quickly.  Here we have breeds going on for several hours.

How annoying - when I press on the videos to watch it says that the 'uploader has not made this video available in this country'  Where do they think I am?  I want to catch up on the agility - on the link I had for Crufts it said that there were no results yet.  That doesn't sound right either.  I watched a bit of the live streaming then caught the More4 coverage later on.  Guess what!  They showed the 2 runs that I had already seen.  I knew a few people competing today. 

Ceejay - I've had that problem too, checked all my settings and I am definitely down as UK!  Very annoying as I want to catch up on the same thing!

I just can't get YouTube to play any footage at this time of Crufts..

Ive just watch the YouTube version of the Toy group ..the best, most comprehensive coverage of the actual dogs Ive EVER seen on screen.
Well done to all concerned with making it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcai1pHORew

No breathing issues with this pug. Big Mac is a fab little guy.

Streaming seems to be more settled today. My 78 year old mother is currently glued to the flyball, she'd never heard of it before!

I'm really not seeing the point of this evenings round up on 4....the ad breaks are longer than the program !

At least there's no Beaker from the Muppets this year.

> At least there's no Beaker...

God be thanked!

I picked three of the four Gundog group winners, liked the ESS myself, but also chose the Irish Water and Lab.

I liked the American Cocker. Thought the lab could do with losing a couple of pounds.

i picked the springer and pointer.
Do all golden retrievers look so short legged?

> Thought the lab could do with losing a couple of pounds.

Yes I thought she would have looked even better with a few pounds off.

> Do all golden retrievers look so short legged?

Not the ones I saw in the Gundog Demo, though in the showring yes, along with heavy heads.  Must admit in Goldens I do prefer the working type (also the Amercian type). 

In labs I think some of the working type have diverged as much from the standard of the dogs like countess Howe had, as some of the show ones have, with so many looking like Lab cross whippets.  All speed and no substance.

the one i saw tonight i didnt even realise it was a golden, i always think of them as taller, sort of like a elegant lab lol

The lab was definitely overweight.  I don't see why they need to be - looking at Saffi's breeders' site, all the dogs on there look just like her weight-wise - she's 5kg overweight (although it's going down!) :-(

> Not the ones I saw in the Gundog Demo,

Ahhhh that Gundog demo was poetry in motion!
Wonderful dogs, and the demo hostess firmly promoting positive training throughout. And who couldn't love that busy little working cocker she had! (Seeing that, not a breed for me, but adorable).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8-d07-sAo0

The Cocker was hilarious !, not the breed for me either but was a joy to watch the enthusiasm in this little pocket rocket.

> The Cocker was hilarious !, not the breed for me either but was a joy to watch the enthusiasm in this little pocket rocket.

Loved the fact that whenever she blew the STOP whistle, it didn't stop until it could see the handler -meaning it was perpetually jumping to & fro over the fence just to be within eyesight of its person!

just wish more explanation of judging would be included, what the judges look for and why.
More breed judging and a little less of the trade stands aswell, who wants to see a giant pooper scooper? imagine taking that out on a walk you would need a trolley.
More 4 keeps breaking up aswell, i think although the coverage is 2 hours long it is quite poor, my hubby fell asleep.

The gundog winner is stunning, and i am not a big coated dog fan, a worthy winner he shone above the rest.

getting fed up with so much flyball coverage now! After watching it a few times it's like groundhog day

Just wish we could see some obedience - is it on Youtube at all? I know it's not in the arena so we wouldn't get it in the live coverage.

Good bit of Thursday's Inter regional is on
http://www.youtube.com/crufts?utm_campaign=Crufts.tv%20email&utm_source=emailCampaign&utm_medium=email

Scroll down :-D

Thanks! Any of the championships? I got all hopeful when I found a piece called Championship - Bitches, but it was just the presentation and interview. :-(

Some from day 1:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA818F1E4033D1DE&feature=plcp

Can't see any from the other days yet.

Have heard 7-10 days until it is all on but keep checking you never know:-)

Well despite some teething problems I have to say overall I LOVED the streaming as usual, and the best thing was my elderly mother sitting down in front on the 'puter to watch quite a lot of it too - who'd have thought she would have enjoyed flyball and agility?

She was watching the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Agility demo today and we both loved the surprise guest - I had NO idea Paul O'Grady now has a rescue Staffy and has now become a real enthusiast for the breed. To see him turn up at Crufts as a "surprise guest" and have a go at Agility with his Staffy, Frank, was a real pleasure, and very entertaining too!

So this household has had a great 4 days and I have to say I am so pleased my mum watched it with me, even the TV shows in the evening. [And all the while she was watching More4, she was tickling the tummy of my BSD cross lad lying on his back on the sofa next to her!].