The Estrela Club Show

I've been meaning to do a post about this for ages... sorry for the delay! Unfortunately my computer blew up recently so there won't be any photos for a while. Edit: Pictures have now been added!

At the end of September we went to the Estrela Club Show in Reading. It is a dog show/meeting for people with Estrela Mountain Dogs from all around the country. You can read all about it on the EMDA website.



Ludo was entered in four categories and came 2nd twice and 3rd twice! You can see her results on the above link - her official Kennel Club name is Sturtmoor Marona. Sturtmoor is the name of our breeders kennels - and as you can see, a Sturtmoor dog also won Best In Show, hooray! I have got a photograph of the rosettes Ludo won which are proudly displayed in our kitchen, which I will add later.

We had great fun although neither Matt or I really knew what we were doing in the ring and Ludo was certainly not the best behaved dog there! Nevertheless we had a wonderful day and it was lovely to see Ludo's brother and sisters - five out of six from the litter were there.


Another wonderful surprise was that we got to see the one-eyed Estrela that we first met at Discover Dogs at Crufts when were searching for a breed. It was this beautiful dog that first drew us to the breed and eventually led to us getting Ludo so it was fabulous to see him again. He still looks absolutely magnificent. There are some photos of him and the other dogs at the show on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicey/ (Search for Estrela or Ludo to see many more pictures!)


All in all, a brilliant day out, and of course Ludo thought it was the best day ever!