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Crufts Best in Show 2007

Tibetan Terrier CH/AM CH ARAKI FABULOUS WILLY


Champion Araki Fabulous Willy "The Greatest Winning Tibetan Terrier!!"

Best in Show Crufts 2007

Breed Record Holder with 41 CC's

15 Group 1st's at Championship Shows

Best in Show Contest of Championns

3 BIS & 3 Reserve BIS at all Breed Champ Shows

Top Utility Dog 2003

Top Sire & Sire of numerous Worldwide Champions

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Colour & Markings: Gold & White
Breeder: Mr Ken Sinclair
Owners: N Smith & J Shaw

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Willies video above

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Agility winner video above


"Willy" became a Champion at just over 13 months of age probably the yougest Tibetan Terrier champion ever.He was Top Tibetan Terrier 2002 & 2003.He was also Top Utility Dog 2003 the only Tibetan Terrier to have achieved this. He took Best in Show at Paignton Ch. Show 2003, and Reserve Best in Show at City of Birmingham Ch. Show 2003, also winnig the "Purina" Contest of Champions 2003. He has now won 8groups making him the top group winning T.T. ever in the history of the breed he took another Reserve Best in Show at SKC may 2004.

• One of our proudest moments was watching "Willy" win Best of breed at Crufts 2004 from an overall entry of over 200 Tibetan Terriers, going on to win the Utility Group and compete for Crufts Best in Show 2004. BOB at Crufts 2006 for the 3rd year running & Crufts Utility Group 3. He is the only Tibetan terrier to have won the Utility group at Crufts. We must thank all the knowledgeable judgeswho have recognised his qualities.

More than 25,000 dogs and 143,000 visitors attended the event, which opened on Thursday.

Mr Smith, 48, breeds dogs and also owns a boarding kennel in Brockworth, near Gloucester.

He said: "We may have to think about retiring him now because there is nothing left for him to do."

Willy's handler, Larry Cornelius, from California, said: "It was definitely worth the trip, he has won the breed here four times in a row, but it's the first time I've shown here.

"He's done everything I've ever asked of him, and I think he is a truly fabulous dog in every way."

A one-year-old wire haired Fox Terrier called Peggy from Bristol won second place in the contest.





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It's a dog's life - without one

Paul Sheehan

September 3, 2007

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THEY scratch, fart, fidget, drool, lick their genitals, defecate and urinate in public, often make too much noise, and sometimes bite people. Even so, we love them because they represent qualities we most admire but often find lacking elsewhere - loyalty, enthusiasm, innocence, honesty and love.

We may be carnivores, we may be rapacious consumers of other species, but don't mess with dogs. Dogs are different. They are integral to who we think we are as a society. That's why they are constantly used in advertising, surely the highest compliment.

This special place that dogs have in society is the backdrop to a drama now unfolding that will soon become the most expensive act of animal cruelty ever committed by one person. One famous sportsman, Michael Vick, stands to lose more than $100 million because he is a dog killer. To appreciate the scale and gravity of Vick's descent from public grace, take the current free-fall of rugby league legend Andrew "Joey" Johns and magnify it by a hundred.

Until last week, Vick was one of the highest paid football players in the world, with a 10-year contract valued at $US130 million ($165 million) as the quarterback and marquee player of the Atlanta Falcons American football team. All that ended when US federal law enforcement authorities released an 11-page indictment, to which Vick has pleaded guilty. The indictment states that in April this year Vick participated in the killings of up to eight dogs "by various methods, including hanging, drowning and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground".

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The dogs, all pit bulls, were killed because they were not vicious or strong enough to participate in illegal dogfights organised by Vick and his three co-accused. Breeding, training, culling and fighting dogs made up the business activities of a company Vick owned called Bad Newz Kennels.

The 10-page summary of allegations attached to the federal indictment makes for morbidly compelling reading about the events which took place at 1915 Moonlight Road, a property Vick owns in rural Virginia. Bad Newz Kennels had been running for five years. When investigators raided the property they found 54 pit bulls in cages. They would later find many graves.

The events which led to the exposure of Vick's secret life are described on page nine of the summary: "In April … Purnell Peace, Quanis Phillips and Michael Vick agreed to the killing of approximately six-eight dogs that did not perform well in 'testing' sessions at 1915 Moonlight Road. All of those dogs were killed by various methods, including hanging and drowning."

Media reports of illegal dogfights and illegal betting prompted police to raid 1915 Moonlight Road. After that, Vick began to lie about his involvement in dogfighting and gambling. He lied to his coach, to the team's ownership and to the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL). Not until his lawyers were confronted by the overwhelming amount of evidence against Vick in the federal indictment did he begin to tell at least part of the truth. He signed a plea bargain admitting guilt. He turned state's witness. Last week he held a nationally televised press conference at which he apologised, expressed his shame, and renounced dogfighting.

Vick will be sentenced on December 10. He will go to jail. He will receive a heavy fine. When the new NFL season starts this Saturday, he won't be there. He has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL. The $US71 million in salary for the remaining seven years of his contract has been suspended. He has lost all endorsement contracts. The Atlanta Falcons will seek reimbursement for up to $US22 million of his signing bonus.

Polls show that most American sports fans never want to see him on a football field again. All this even though he has not been convicted of any violent crime against another human being, nor any involvement in narcotics. Rather, Vick's years in the violent underground world of dogfighting represented an affront to the special place dogs hold in society.

What does it mean, then, that this special place is being eroded by the pressures of modern life? In Australia, keeping dogs as companions is in serious decline. Earlier this year, a study commissioned by the Australian Companion Animals Council found a significant decline in the dog population. In 2000, Australians kept 4 million dogs as companions. By this year, the number had dropped to 2.75 million, a plunge of 31 per cent. (Cat numbers also declined over the same period, from 3.2 million to 2.3 million, a fall of 28 per cent.)

Experts attributed the sharp decline to children spending less time playing outdoors and much more time playing video games, and watching TV and the internet. One byproduct of this behavioural shift has been a surge in childhood obesity. Another byproduct, it appears, has been a decline in the role that companion animals, especially dogs, occupy in family life.

Researching this subject, it was fascinating to find the many scholarly studies which measured positive roles that companion animals play in social life, with dogs at the forefront. Various studies have concluded that animal owners have lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol levels, higher survival rates after serious illness, and suffer less from loneliness or depression. A number of studies have concluded that companion animals tend to enhance family life.

If dogs are being pushed aside by the accelerating pace of modern life - more technology, less time - if we have less time for the altruism required to keep a dog exercised and engaged, then we are in danger of losing a better part of who we collectively are.

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Two bookmaking firms narrowly escaped a Lucy Light-type sting after a Queensland punter manipulated the UNiTAB and NSW totes on Tuesday.

The punter bet $3000 a place on odds-on favourite Saigon Lord in the third race at Addington dogs in Christchurch, New Zealand, with Vanuatu bookmakers Dial A Bet.

Dial A Bet's policy is to pay out on the middle tote from the dividends declared in Victoria, NSW and Queensland.

Therefore the punter needed to manipulate at least two of the state totes for Saigon Lord to pay high.

He backed the other seven dogs on both the NSW and Queensland tote when the race was just about to run.

He placed about $100 on each in Queensland and $200 in NSW.

Meanwhile, Dial A Bet laid off with Betezy in Darwin, who agreed to take $600 of the wager, and bet $300 on both the NSW and Queensland totes for a place.

The Queensland tote was in malfunction and the bet could not place.

The small pools enabled the second-placed Saigon Lord to pay $14.70 on UNiTAB.

The same dividend in NSW would have netted the Queenslander over $44,000 on an odds-on favourite.

The $300 Betezy placed on the NSW tote destroyed a similar dividend.

Saigon Lord paid $2 in NSW compared to $1 money back on both the non-manipulated totes in New Zealand and Victoria.

In late December 2005, a team headed by NSW punter Eddie Hayson took $1million from bookmakers in a similar sting at Gold Coast dogs on top stayer Lucy's Light.

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