DBARC

This post is coming a few days late I am aware I am getting lazy with my blogging again. So on Sunday me, my mum, my granny and Bruno all made the long journey to the other side of Reading for the annual DBARC fun day which as always had a fun dog show as the main attraction. The venue for the fun day was amazing, it was in the grounds of this huge house and there were just miles and miles of fields and a lovely river with people rowing and things. So we got to the show just after 10 where I was upset to see the classes had already started and I was too late to enter Bruno in best veteran (usually the class he does the best in) so instead I entered him for best collie or collie cross (turned out to be a fix as the judge was from the BOARDER collie society so only dogs which looked like boarder collies did well. George, her mum and her dog Finley also came along to the show but left after entering only one class as hey had other things to do. Then we went in for best DBARC dog (DBARC is the rescue centre that was holding the show and the place we got Bruno from 11 years ago) anyway we went in for this class thinking we had no chance, all of the dogs were very sweet and playful and there were over 30 in the class! Bruno being his usual laid back self just lay down and went to sleep and even when the judge came over he didn't really show any excitement (no hope for us placing now as all of the other dogs were saying hello and wagging their tails at the judge). Anyway it came to placing the dogs who had won and he went through 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, then came to second, started walking towards Bruno and handed him the rosset!!! I was so happy, fair enough it wasn't 1st like last week but 2nd in a class this big is still amazing. Bruno looked happy and mummy and granny were thrilled. We left the show not long after this as granny was tired and so was Bruno but before we left we picked up a drawing of Bruno we had paid a man to do at the show which I think is adorable and looks a lot like Bruno. Was a lovely day in total, mum brought a picnic which we ate in the sun by the car and even though I got a little sun burnt it was nice to be out in the sun and Bruno fell straight to sleep once home bless him.

Drawing of Bruno we had done and his second place rosset

Bruno all tired from coming second and ready to head home

Here is the link to the rescue centres website, if you are looking to get a new pet (they have cats and small animals as well as dogs) then I really would advice looking at rescue centres as there are so many lovely dogs in then needing new homes. http://www.dbarc.org.uk/

The dog show was of course the main topic of this post but just a quick note about yesterday. Yesterday me and Nick went for a late lunch/early dinner to The Leather Bottle in Hook which used to be a Bluebeckers restaurant. These used to be my favourite places to go and eat but I was really disappointed as they have changed the menu and it just isn't the same as the old one. Was a nice meal anyway but just wish they would change back to the old one.

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