I am looking for a snood for my cocker spaniels. Can anyone recommened any stalls at Crufts that i can get one from?
The only stall i have found is hub international but the snoods there look quite fancy.

I generally make my own, you just need some scrap material and 2 lengths of elastic - but there'll be dozens of stalls selling them at Crufts! :-)

Hi, if you go to the american cocker ring on sunday [ presuming you are going on gundog day ] hall 4 ring 17....Gwen will be selling snoods for the rescue.so you can be helping a good cause too!
regards
Pauline

I had no idea what a snood was so looked it up on google and well that is just the sort of thing that puts me right off showing dogs, the same as wheeling dogs around in trollys when they have legs and putting them in curlers and stupid trouser suits. Realise I have probably just lit a fuse wire and will stand back and wait for the explosion but really how humiliating.
Amos

My dogs are shown & have worn snoods etc but only to keep them clean for the show that day. At present they have been out gardening for have dirty feet & ears etc like any other dog They certainly don't get wrapped up in cotton wool & my dogs are never humiliated

Would you expect to go out for a party or to work looking like you had slept in a hedge ?

I have such funny images in my head right now. Freya could do with one for when she eats and drinks though. I spilt peas and their juice on the floor on fri so had to wash them yesterday after discovering that I hadn't got it all out and they have what i can only describe as bright green dried gunk (looked like boogies :) ) is their ears. Well that'll teach me to have cavs LOL :) :) :)

ps Is humiliating wearing a pink stripy t shirt when its cold.......... Freya loves it and sticks her head though the hole when you show it to her. But its just for in doors.  OH won't let her out in it!!!

Humiliating?? Nar i think if i was a dog id rather wear a snood adn not have food crusted up in my ears thanks!

Its not a fashion accessory its just about keeping the dog clean, adn removing dried food from a spangles ears is not fun for either party!

Em

Spangle I like it, from now on I have American Cocker Spangles. Has a ring to it eh. :)

Dawn R.

PS especially when they are wearing the sequin encrusted snoods.

Someone said sequin encrusted snods ........ Where do i get them from and if theree isn't a place there could be a place in the market for them. Am off to write resignation so can turn Freya into a fashion icon with the new look snods. LOL  Sorry I'm in a really silly mood. But still think the snods are good ideas and if the dogs cumfy then wheres the problem. :):):)

Humiliating, amos? I think not. The snood keeps the hary ears out of the food. Would YOU like a mouthful of your  own hair each time you eat?

Well I think that they are humiliating and I am entiltled to my opinion. whats wrong with using a bowl with a top narrower than the bottom to keep its ears out instead of putting some stupid flowery hat on it or tuck its ears in its collar while it eats. Do you also think trouser suits to keep them clean and curlers are OK?
I wish these dogs could be treated like dogs and not hairdressers dummies!
Amos

Amos, my cavalier - having looong ears and a little short snout doesn't like the narrow topped dishes - he thinks that he's going to fall in and always somehow managed to get one ear in anyway........snood is the perfect problem solver and it's only on for a minute or two during eating when Harvey's so engrossed in his dinner that he doesn't even realise he's wearing a snood let alone how stoopid he looks!!! Actually, my Harvey looks rather fetching in his lil snood

OMG I need to see a pic of this. i betHarvey is a little star in his snod. I want a sparkle one for Freya. Pref in pink or baby blue. :) Think OH may protest though

Why woudl a dog feel "humiliated" (surely a humjan emotion, not canine?) by a snood, but not a collar and lead?  Snoods are practical, as all the other posters in favour have explained, long legged trouser suits also have their place as a practical measure.  I have a dog who often wear a coat or a jumper - yes, she look cute, but the reason she wear thm is to keep her warm.  As a pup she had to wear a hat a lot, to protect her skull, no sign she was humiliated by that either!  If you spend months/year training and conditioning you dog for the show ring, and it happens to be a long coated breed which you have to spend hours each week keeping the coat in top condition, surely it is only common sense to take care whiel getting the dog inot the show?  Presentation counts for a lot in many breeds, I see no pint in having a beautifullly groomed dog at home, and then neglect the extra measures needed to actually get it into the show and into the ring in immaculate condition.  So snoods, wheeled dog transport, etc, etc all have their place.  Of course, you are welcome not to use them yourself.  But your assumption that they are a needless accessory, and humiliate the dogs is rather offensive to those who have the sense to see there useful purpose.
bye
Gwen

my american cocker wears a "stupid trouser suit" when i take her for walks in the winter as it actually does more good. i'd much rather take her out wearing that and have a clean dry dog, than not bother and have her come back completely soaked. its all down to personal choice and i really dont think that the dogs understand whether or not its humiliating!!

becky

Becky, where did you buy your 'stupid trouser suit'? I wouldn't mind looking into getting my boy one of those - almost every day he get filthy during his outing!

hi, i got my trouser suit off the net www.barkingmadclothing.co.uk. they come in red and blue and are reasonably priced i think!

becky

Hi, just had a look and they're brill! I'm going to get one for Harvey next winter when he has stopped growing

I can imagine they're good in the snow. I got fed up with Mollys snowball feet at Christmas and the fact I had to wrap her in a towel and warm her up til they melted. I think the cuddles bit was really for me though!!! :)

Snoods are incredibly practical and not at all a fashion accessory in our house - they are an essential piece of kit - when dealing with long coated dogs anyway.  I have an Afghan Hound in full coat who wears a snood during meal times and when feasting on recreational bones.  She doesn't do bowls as she eats raw (usually in the back garden) Oh, and she isn't shown!
Surely anyone who feels the need to criticise others for using a practical piece of equipment (albeit whilst having fun with the odd novelty design :D) clearly doesn't understand the needs of the long haired hound (and its owner!!!)
Sarah
(whose dogs also get snowball feet ;))

Well I supose each to their own!
Amos

Yes, I prefer to have my dogs look silly for 2 minutes while eating, than to spend hours cleaning rotten food out of their ears afterwards, and probably have them eating each others ears to get the food off. And yes, I have been known to put my boy in a silly trouser suit just while at the show when he needs to pee - I'm sure he doesn't care whether the pee runs down his trouser leg or down his feathering! I assume Amos has short haired dogs - trust me, with long haired breeds, whether you show them or not, you need to have a few things which make the dogs look silly for a minute, to keep them looking nice the rest of the time. :-)

i really need to get a snood for my tibetan terrier and maybe a troucer suit as well as when i bring her for a walk in the rain she comes home and looks like a drowned rat hehe

2 more items to add to my very long shopping list for crufts

hub international sell the sparkly encrusted snoods i got one last year but was too small for lil

Georgina

Do silly trouser suits come in small whippet x bedlington size??

Not becasue i want him to look silly, but because sadly his coat is not weatherproof, its more like a super sponge and he is soaked to the skin in minutes, even just in long wet grass...... poor lad doesnt enjoy his walks shivering and wet through!

Em

they do come in all different sizes so have a look on the website, i think they measure them in inches

I had someone make one to measure for Alfie, let pm me if you would like her number :)