Crufts 2015 Competition Time

                         

Yes Bloggy friends it is that time of year again when we are looking forward to the world's greatest dog show here in the UK - Crufts 2015! Last year my Affen brother Crybbe was a little star for us and came home with not one but two first place rosettes. We are so proud of him :-) 

                                      

                                          

But there is a lot more to Crufts than just the show ring. Over the next four weeks I will be posting about some of the other things that you can see if you go Crufts and then more posts to come when me and Crybbe become Rover Reporters and go along in pawson to the NEC and get some on the spot pictures for you :-)

If you would like to buy tickets for the show then just click on this link and it will take you through 

Buy Crufts tickets here

But we do also have a special competition lined up for anyone in the UK who would like to win a pair of tickets to Crufts valid for any one day of the show ( although not including the special Arena Best in Show event on Sunday night which needs a separate ticket ) We have a pair of tickets for each of two lucky winners so do have a go and see if you can win them :-) 

All you have to do is to pick which of the following breeds of dog was the Best in Show winner in 2014 and email your choice A B or C to my peeps at crybbe14@gmail.com

A - Giant Schnauzer
B - Affenpinscher
C - Standard Poodle

The competition will close at midnight on Monday 16 February. Please remember to give us your name as the two winners will be chosen at random from all the correct entries received by the closing date and notified by email the following day.
 

A Special Gift

                          

        The other day my peeps got a very special gift from a very special Bloggy friend :-)

A lovely photo book with pictures of all of us dogs. We were so proud to be pictured in our own little book and I know this is going to be treasured always. I am on the front cover of course :-) but here are just a few of the other pages:

                           

                                  Crybbe with Raven and me protecting our peeps :-)

                                     

                                       Aoife posing by the flower pot on the patio

                          

                                         Saoirse - she certainly does make us laugh :-)

         We loved seeing all the photos and their captions - thank you Haopee you're a star xxx

 

                            

Meeting the Family

   

                                

Well the big day arrived on Sunday and the pups moved into the kitchen play pen through the day and we all got to see them for the first time.

                                 

Even though they are much bigger than when they were born they are still very tiny. They are beginning to explore their new surroundings and Aoife still goes in to feed them. She does NOT like any of us getting too near and keeps a good close eye on every doggy that goes near the play pen.

                                

                                 

                                  

They are pretty cute little pupsters and they really love the schnauzer hottie which our peeps put in the playpen for them to snuggle when Aoife is out having a break :-)

                                  

                                   

I bet they will love snuggling with us real schnauzers when the time comes and we can play together.

   

Hello World

                      

Well it has been all puppy talk here for the last week as Aoife's little pups have been growing and growing. They sleep and feed and sleep and feed...and then at the weekend they opened their eyes!

                   

                            

Now they are beginning to see the world, they are starting to explore their box as well.

                            

But they need all their energy to keep growing really so sleeping is their favourite thing after feeding.

                              

                               

                                      And you can see that Aoife is feeding them well BOL

                               

Next week the pups will move from their quiet room and whelping box into the puppy pen in the kitchen and then we will all get to see them in the fur. Only sniffs under the door and hearing their squeaks for us dogs for now but the fun will start next week for sure :-)

     

    

    

    

        

Happy New Year

                          

                                          Happy New Year to all Bloggy friends!

As you can see our Aoife is missing from the group photo and this is because she has three new little pups and no time right now for fun and games.

                           

Anyway it has been a long time since I last posted and that is because my peeps have both been ill over the festive season with bad colds and coughs :-( We did get the fire fitted and the house is lovely and warm but it did not stop the peeps falling ill! Here you can see little Saoirse hogging the best spot while I have the bed at the side:

                            

                                Here I am enjoying a bit of snug comfort in the new bed :

                             

But this was a bit of luck on my part as the story of the new beds is not such a good one for us schnauzers. Our peeps kindly bought two new beds for us to share this Christmas. Well the affens took the large one as soon as they saw it:

                              

                           And me, Trilby and Pip were left to squash into the small one!

                                         

                                                      At least we were extra warm!

                                   Anyway we did have a good Christmas with a tasty dinner:

                                  

                                              And plenty of chew toys and treats as well:-)

Sadly for the peeps they did not really get started on all their eatables and I had to put on my most wistful face to try and encourage them to cut into the cake - even though we dogs were not allowed any it was a terrible temptation seeing it just sitting there uneaten! 

                                  

                                    

Anyway - we all hope that 2015 is a fun year and a good one for all Bloggy friends and their peeps and here is a little photo of our newest additions to welcome the New Year.

                                  

   

           

     

The Day of the Logs

    

                                            

                                               

Yesterday a strange thing happened here - a man came with a big trailer full of logs and tipped them all over our driveway! Us dogs all told him what we thought of that but he didn't seem to care and just drove away again. Anyway Leigh seemed happy to have the logs and spent the afternoon putting them into the shed.

                                                 

And she even brought some into the house. We thought they might have been for us to play with but they have been stacked up on this new black shelf and in a nice wicker basket.

                                                   

                               

The only problem is we haven't got a fire :-) but Judith and Leigh have been talking about a new wood burning stove so we will have to wait and see what turns up. In the meantime Saoirse has decided to clean her teeth with the kindling :-)

                                

                         She couldn't believe it when Leigh said they were not for chewing on!

                                 

       

Pip's First Show

                       

My grand daughter Pip is really growing up now. She is nine months old now and last weekend she went to her very first show - the Northern Schnauzer Club Championship Show.

                       

It was very noisy and a bit scary for her first show but she did well and got a rosette. There were seven in her class and she.managed fifth place - Very Highly Commended :-)

                                          

                     But she also came home with a brand new jacket for the winter!

 

                              

                                                          Here she is posing :-)