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BrightMinds have teamed up with the Young Kennel Club to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a fabulous Basset Hound Plush Toy worth £39.99 just in time for DFS Crufts 2010. With its life like authentic colouring, long droopy ears and wrinkled jowls it’s one hound dog that’s impossible not to love! Made from soft plush, with lifelike attention to detail, the Basset Hound is suitable for dog lovers of all ages and a perfect companion for DFS Crufts!

Birmingham Activity Weekend, Date: 8-9 May 2010, Venue: Staffordshire County Showground

This is a great weekend to train your dog for newcomers and also for members who would like to brush up on their skills if competing in the year ahead! The weekend is held at the Birmingham National Dog Show at Staffordshire Showground and is a good place to experience your first dog show.Activities on offer include Handling and Agility training and exciting DFS Crufts qualifiers including Grooming and Obedience

To celebrate the recent arrival of eight new Pink Puppies in the fourth series of Puppy In My Pocket confectionery packs, we are offering you the chance to win a Puppy In My Pocket Dream-house in a super Magic Pink Powers Competition.

To celebrate the release of Disney•Pixar’s hit film UP, available on Blu-ray™ and DVD now, The Kennel Club are giving 5 lucky winners the chance to win a talking Dug toy!

Disney/Pixar invites you on a voyage of discovery with this critically-acclaimed, heart-warming family film, which has floated onto Blu-ray™ Hi-Def + DVD combo from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

UP is the uplifting, animated adventure starring an unlikely duo; recent widower and retired balloon salesman, Carl Fredricksen and spirited eight year-old Wilderness Explorer, Russell, who mistakenly stows away on what turns out to be the trip of a lifetime. They are soon joined by tropical bird, Kevin, and Dug, the loveable talking dog, as they attempt to complete their comical escapade through the jungle - all in order to fulfil Carl’s lifelong dream of reaching the beautiful Paradise Falls in memory of his beloved wife, Ellie.

The UK’s top young achievers in the dog world are set to be recognised in a special ceremony at the world’s greatest dog show, DFS Crufts, on Sunday March 14th at the NEC in Birmingham.

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People are challenging visitors to DFS Crufts 2010, from 11 – 14 March, to see how far they walk during their visit and support the charity at the same time.

To take part, people should head straight for the Hearing Dogs stand, (Hall 2 stand 52) when they arrive at DFS Crufts. For a minimum donation of £10, they will then get an Olymp Miles Pedometer which has a RRP of £25. After having this set to their stride, this will then record the number of steps and miles covered during the day. At the end of the day this distance can to be logged back at the Hearing Dogs stand, where they can also find out how many calories they have burnt – what better excuse to indulge in a cream bun on the way home!   

The Kennel Club Art Gallery, recently hailed by the Times newspaper as the ‘most exclusive public gallery in Britain’, has launched a new exhibition examining two of the more overlooked Utility dog breeds.

The Exhibition, entitled ‘Two Dissimilar Breeds: The French Bulldog & Schipperke in Art’, opens on 22nd February and runs until 11th June 2010. On show is a wide range of art and ephemera including, paintings, bronze sculptures and porcelain models that shed light on two lesser known dog breeds, dissimilar but both fit for a specific function.

Following the success of the live webcast of Crufts 2009, which was watched by over 146,000 people, the Kennel Club has launched a brand new video section on the show’s website www.dfscrufts.org.uk, so that dog lovers won’t miss a second of the action.

As in 2009, all the action from the Arena at DFS Crufts 2010, which will include Best in Show, the Friends for Life final and agility displays, will be streamed live online and viewers will be able to watch the live webcast free at DFS Crufts’ dedicated video site, www.dfscrufts.tv.  Before the show starts fans will be able to relive the excitement of Crufts 2009 with additional video clips of highlights and replays from the show published on the site every week from now until the show begins. These will run alongside exclusive videos from recent Kennel Club events such as the Discover Dogs show at Earls Court in London.  Crufts fans will also be able to explore footage from video clips stretching back to 1996, with further clips from the 1980s coming soon.

The Young Kennel Club is delighted to announce that the dates for YKC National Training Camp 2010 will be Saturday 24th - 30th July 2010.

Application forms will be sent out to ALL renewed members just before DFS Crufts this year.

Do you own a rescue dog from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and have a story to tell about you and your dog? If so Battersea would like to hear from you as they need YKC members and their dogs to feature in their special 150th anniversary celebration display in the main ring at dfs Crufts this year.