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Well!
If you thought
Crufts Was
WeIrd…
by Mike John
In the last issue of K9 News I wrote about unfortunately, about it getting worse before it got
how weird Crufts was this year. better!
Well, if I thought Crufts was a bit weird, it A long-planned litter of Alaskan Malamutes had
was nothing compared to what was about been born on January the 12th, eight of the little
to follow over the next few months! monsters, five dogs and three bitches. We had
decided to keep two, one of each (we always
We arrived home from Crufts on Monday keep at least one from every litter. What’s the
the 9th, and breathed a sigh of relief. Not so point of breeding otherwise? We certainly
much because Crufts was over, though it is don’t do it for money! But maybe that’s another
hard work, more a sigh of relief that the event discussion for another day!), and the remaining
actually happened at all! With Covid closing in, six all had homes lined up, five in various places
everything was in doubt and it was becoming around the UK and one going to Germany.
pretty apparent that things were going to get
worse before they got better. Though, at the So, one of the first jobs on returning home
time, the general feeling was that it would all be from Crufts, with the pups being eight weeks
over fairly quickly. old, registered, microchipped, fit, healthy and
ready to go, was to organise their collection and
How wrong we all turned out to be. And not, getting them settled into their new homes as
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