The Royal Kennel Club - Crufts 2027 Show Interviews and Highlights

Crufts 2024 Day One

Our objective is to help, rescue where necessary, rehabilitate and rehome any Akita which needs it, through assessing both dog and potential owners, to ensure a well-matched and long lasting, happy relationship.   

https://www.friendsofakitas.co.uk/

Reiki is a simple and gentle natural healing therapy which benefits people and animals by helping lower stress, reduce anxiety and improve health and wellness

Rachel Berrington with tiny Maud – who weighs just 1.2kg.

She may be small in size, but Rachel's furry friend has already made a big impact in the dog show world and the 16-month-old pup recently appeared as Bruiser Woods in a performance of Hollywood flick Legally Blonde at Stourbridge Town Hall in September.

Volunteers from Pets As Therapy (PAT), a national charity that provides animal-assisted therapeutic visits, spend time in hospitals, hospices, residential care homes, schools and universities across the UK. PAT Teams also visit 35 prisons to give prisoners the chance to interact with a friendly dog — and suicide attempts and instances of self-harm have reduced as a result.

The charity has found that therapeutic sessions with a PAT Dog can shift a person’s outlook. Some prisoners have struggled in their informative years or come from broken families and not experienced love in their life. Others have violent pasts. PAT Dogs seem to help prisoners explore new ways of expressing and processing their emotions. The four-legged friends provide a sense of connection to the ‘outside world’, and staff at prisons have noted significant improvements in the overall mental health of prisoners.

https://petsastherapy.org/

Ante Lucin - Best in Show 2023 - Orca the Lagotto Romagnolo