Our regular readers will know that our last two events were rather wet - our Meet and Greet at Salcey, and the last White Lodge walk were both rained on; yesterday at the Greyhound Gap Show it was no different, except it was a bit windy from time to time too. Indeed one felt as though one would have been better off as an Irish Water Spaniel rather than a lurcher or greyhound.

We arrived to find everyone there rather wet already. Still, The Beastly Beasts are nothing if not resilient in the face of adversity, and we got mum and dad to put up the cloth kennel and get our beds in so we could run our quiz.


The Beastly Beasts

During the day people wandered past our kennel and quite a few came to say hello. I must say were rather surprised at how many people knew us already, and said they enjoyed reading our blog - thank you to all of you that came along to see us and said nice things (no-one said anything horrible). Some people knew Lucy and Hooch from last time they were in rescue, and we met a man and lady who gave Shaggy - who stayed with us for a bit over Christmas, a lift from Rochdale - they asked after him and were pleased to hear he was doing OK (Shaggy, if you are reading this, they send their regards).

Once the kennel was up went for a wander round the show, and met up with Jackie (Fenja's mum) who she made a fuss of me like she always does - a lady of exceedingly good taste I have to say. And of course we entered some classes in the dog show.

You might have thought that what with greyhounds usually preferring to be anywhere but in the rain that the numbers would be down. Not a bit of it - there were loads of people taking part, and what's more looking like they were enjoying it.

And that kind of let Monty down when he went in the Black Beast class; he did look like he wanted to be anywhere but there.

Still, yours truely did better in the I'm Not a Gap Dog class; coming third. Lisa (boss of Gap) was judging it and she said I deserved a medal for putting up with all the greyhounds; well, she said for starting off the rescue of the others, but I knew what she meant. So thanks to a very astute, and may I say, totally accurate observation, I got third place.

And we all, including Lucy and Hooch, got new Anna's collars; we love them as they look great and help other hounds. Here's me with mine and my rosette.


Me

So what about the quiz? A fair few took part, and I think most people - even though they obviously had greyhounds - found it (how shall I say this?) challenging. Still, it's mostly for fun and to make some money to help other hounds. We raised £34.

And we know already that the show raised over £3,000, which is pretty amazing as usually on a day like that most of us hounds would have quite happily stayed in bed. So I think all that hounds that got their humans out of the house and up to Wallsal deserve an extra special treat for raising so much - bet you do too.