I exhibited Brodie & Bird in AVNSC HOUND CLASSES at Melton Mowbray & District Canine Society last Sunday (7th July 2009). Both won their respective classes & Brodie was awarded Best AVNSC and went on to be placed second in the hound group (G2). It was a very nice afternoon except for the weather….it rained buckets, whilst thunder & lighting roared around. Still there’s a first time for everything!!

Great news. Congrats.

Well done Brodie,Bird and John!

Well done John and of course Brodie and Bird. Especially in that thunder, we had it from 6.45, it was so loud it woke us up, I thought the road was under attack!!

It was good news for me…..bad news for Sue….she had best pup in breed with her collie & missed the Pastoral Puppy Group holding my deerhounds….oh my

Nice one, Wigster. Big box of choccies for Sue, I think!

Well done it,s always harder to win from AVNSC classes and in the land of the "Pork Pie" too there,s a few more points towards St Andrews Cup 2009!!

Brodie wrote:


Well done, but was it really (7 july 2009)?

Congratulations BTW what does AVNSC stand for?

Brollachan wrote:

Any Variety Not Separately Classified - ie no breed classes. It's a lot harder to win from the NSC classes.

Thanks Sid. Next questions...why is a dog entered as such?

If there are no specific classes for our breed e.g Deerhound then the only option is to enter AVNSC or AV classes. Harder to do well as you can be up against ALL breeds and as Deerhounds take longer to mature his win is well worth congrats given.

Congratulations John and gang what a good win. Keep it up.

Why would she want choc's, when she has me!!

Yep, I was the only one there!!..well not really, my mistake...should be June (thanks "F")

Brodie wrote:


Where to begin...

See you at Kelso next week?

Hi Sid, I’m not doing “up north”, didn’t enter (wouldn’t be able to any way as I have trapped a nerve in my back & struggling to walk on my own , never mind run a dog ). Good luck to you though!!

You should have brought the chocs and saved your back!!!

When I told Sue what Sid said she thought it was a good idea too…I’ll save the chocks for later….I do like to treat her though in many other ways as she’s special to me....
I hurt my back rushing to fix my van’s back door catch so that I could take Sue out for a meal

Brodie wrote:


Deep sympathy, John. I know just how you feel - take care now.