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As always on Honiley Open Day, Carol's favourite strawberries and cream were on sale.

      

Rags was very excited when we first arrived at the show, and she barked a lot, but she began to quieten down a little and was content to sit with Don and watch the obedience demonstration and the first class, to find the handsomest dog.

      

As always at Honiley, there were airliners heading for Birmingham Airport flying over every few minutes.

      

Then it was time for Rags' first visit to the ring, in the class for the prettiest bitch. She came fourth in this class last year, but this year she was not among the prizewinners.

      

While the classes were being judged, the various fundraising stalls around the ground were a little neglected, but before and after the classes they did a roaring trade and made a lot of money for Dogs Trust and the Greyhound Rescue. One of the funniest classes is called 'six legs'. The owners have to roll their trousers up and put their two legs on display with the four their dogs have, to find which combination of six legs is best. Rags and Don did not enter this one!

      

Then it was time for Don and Rags to go back into the ring for the waggiest tail class. We had been in two minds about entering her because she hardly wagged her tail at all when we first got her, and it was only recently that we noticed that she had started to wag her tail. So we entered her, and Don tickled her and played with her to get her happily wagging her tail. To our great delight she was called out as one of the six prizewinners, and in the final judging she was placed fourth.

      

Here you can see a movie of Rags' prizewinning tail wagging in the contest.