South Wales Dog and Family Fun Day. By Bessie

Bank holiday Monday was the South Wales Dog and Family Fun Day at which we, the Basset Rescue Network of Great Britain were having a stall.  It was our first show and we were all terrified it would be a complete disaster.   On Sunday Jeffersonmummeezellen, Jeffersondaddeezdarren, Bumble and Bridget came for Sunday dinner.  After dinner Sam came with our new foster doggies Chalky and Revel.    We 7 houndies helped the humans wrap all the prizes for the doggy lucky dip.

The next morning we had to get up at 6am to go to the show.   Looby and Dave came and then it was time to go to the show.  We had to be on site and set up by 8.30.  Carly and Lotty stayed home with Daddy and the rest of us and Katie went to Barry.  

We got there at 8.20 but the gazebo popped up fast and we was set up nice and quick.   It was a good show, loads and loads of people came and bought our doggy pick n mix.   That was good cos Mummy had been baking every night for an entire week and she would have cried if nobody had bought any.   And the lucky dip was popular.

Everyone wanted to cuddle with Chalky and Revel.  Mummy and Sam took them into the ring for the dogs looking for homes parade.  It was all a bit embarrassing really.  They didn't know there was going to be a parade so they never wrote a speech.  Mind you they wouldn't have had one ready anyway cos Chalky and Revel only came to us at the very last minute.  So when the lady gave Mummy the microphone she didn't have a clue what to say and muttered and stammered and said about 3 words.  When they got back to the stand Looby and Jeffersonmummeezellen were still laughing at her speech.

Theresa and Doug came too with Poppy, Bella and their foster dog Navi and we now have someone wanting to adopt Navi, which is super awesome.

We had a VIP area at the back of our stand and there was 11 houndies in there in the end.  Apart from the gazebo blowing away and knocking the entire contents of the table over and it being cold and windy we had an amazing day and made loads of money and got loads of people wanting to adopt bassets.

Then we went put all our things in the cars and we went home and had tea and Chalky and Revel are staying at our house for the week.  They are very good foster dogs and Carly loves them which is a big bonus.