A HUGE THANK YOU !!!!

from Helen and all at the Rescue to everyone

who helped to make the Fun Day Dog Show last weekend such a great success !!

A grand total of £2148 was raised

which will all go towards helping many more dogs in the near future !!

Special thanks to:

Pat and Nigel on whose land the Show was held,

Kate, who worked tirelessly to organise the Show with Ann and Mark

and who also took many of the photos,

Jenny who manned the PA all day,

Pat and Sally who judged all the events,

Jane and Jimmy with Ozzie who ran the DAWGdogs shop,

Claire and Sergeant Pepper who ran the Raffle,

Kieser who ran the Bottle Stall,

Anne who ran the Children’s Area,

Jan and Louise with Sadie who ran the Tombola,

Jan who ran the cakes and plants stall,

Emma and Anne who ran the bric-a-brac stall.

Jan, Jimmy and Jonathan for helping set up and pack away everything,

Gemma who helped with the preparation,

Jeanine and Lissa and Gerard who ran the Agility course,

Jason, Jaff and Harry who dressed up as dogs and did collections,

Judges Helpers Tracey and Trudy,

Angela and the Friendly Dog Club,

The New Forest Dog Owners Club,

Julian Clegg for publicising the show on Radio Solent,

Simon,

Linda from Paddy’s Pool who ran a stall

and who has homed three DAWGdogs over the years,

Jim, Charlie and Reece for supervising the car parking,

Pat who donated all the rosettes,

everyone who made cakes and donated bottles and other items,

and a special mention of thanks to

Charlie and his brother Phil

who both donated £100 each!

RESULTS !

DAWGdog Dogs Of The Year 2008

First Prize was won by Lillie who lives with the Hurcombe family.

She is a lurcher cross fostered by them five years ago when she was only five weeks old and arrived at the Rescue very ill with pneumonia.

Second Prize was won by Ozzie,

a golden lab cross looked after by Jane Ferguson.

Ozzie had been badly treated in Ireland

( he was actually brought into the Irish rescue by his original owner locked in the boot of a car

as if that was a normal way to transport a dog )

He was very difficult at first and bit a few people

because he was very nervous.

At the Show he helped on the DAWGdogs stall

and behaved impeccably all day long.

3rd prize

Muffin and Mrs Holcombe

4th prize

Minty and Mrs Davies

FANCY DRESS WINNERS:

1st

Katie and Purdie

2nd

Emma and Sheba

3rd

Harry and Oscar

DOGS MOST LIKE OWNERS WINNERS:

1st

Helen and Gigi

2nd

Steve and Zak

3rd

Sarah and Rudy

DOGS WITH THE WAGGIEST TAIL WINNERS:

1st

Fenn and Carolyn

2nd

Dexter and Stephanie

3rd

Roma and Jean

A special no-tail prize was awarded to

Chas and Mandy !

BEST RESCUE DOG 2008

was won by Sam ( a.k.a Skinny Sam )

more results and photos to follow soon !!