Our Crufts 2024 model Maggie!

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Our Crufts 2024 model, Maggie!

Our Crufts 2024 model, Maggie!

If you're going to Crufts in 2024, pop along to our stands in Hall 1-118 Hall 4 - 78 and you'll see a huge photo of beautiful Maggie on our backdrop, modelling our Drying Coats.

Maggie won our Top Model Competition in 2023, our 10th anniversary year. We asked our customers to enter their dogs to be the face of the Crufts Limited Edition dog Drying Coat, and thousands of you entered! Owner Alison could not resist this photo of Maggie, looking so content loving life outdoors. We are also delighted to say that the 2024 Ruff and Tumble Crufts Limited Edition dog coat is our customer's favourite limited edition of all time. During our birthday celebrations last year we also asked customers to vote for their favourite 'comeback' Drying Coat out of 23 past styles, and this Ebony and Chestnut dog robe (above), with a velvet trim, came out tops. Luckily it was our favourite too - we knew we could rely on our customers!

In February this year, Alison, Ed and Anne at R&T set off to South Wales to meet Maggie and her owners Gaby and Glen, to take the photographs needed for Crufts. We were hoping for no rain and clouds, so of course there was torrential rain and 40mph winds! To say nothing fazed Gaby, Glen and their baby boy Auggie is an understatement. They came not only with Maggie but also smaller and less chilled but equally adorable Marla, and worked unbelievably hard, with smiles and a can-do approach which we so appreciated.

On the first day we visited the Penllyn Estate, where Gaby works her dogs regularly. Even having Auggie hasn't stopped her passion for working her dogs outdoors - he is going to be a proper country boy! The end results of the photos look so different to the muddy mayhem behind them, thanks to Gaby and her whistle! Maggie is beautiful inside and out. One particularly endearing feature is the way she leans against you whilst sitting at your feet...The next day we met up at Cobbles - a rustic and cool cafe, deli and wedding venue, for some Limited Edition and new Burnham Bolster Bed photography. Ed managed to get some great shots, even when Marla decided that she would like a little rest in his lap mid-shot! Big shout out and thank you to Cobbles - go for the sandwiches they are next level!

The moody Crufts Limited Edition Drying Coat shot used as the header photo was taken in Cobbles' doorway.

On the last day we went to a nearby Castle by a beautiful river, hoping for some photos of the dogs on stepping stones, but the rainfall meant they were submerged. Instead we took some great before and after shots of Maggie in a French Navy Drying Coat and a favourite shot of ours - one from behind with the dogs sitting together! Gaby playing a pheasant calling sound out of her phone on repeat helped a lot this day!

We're delighted that Gaby and Glen are coming to see us at Crufts, and will see a huge photo of their much loved Maggie on such a big scale. And we're also delighted to reveal that Maggie, who is undoubtedly a very special dog, isn't coming because she is pregnant! A happy end to a wonderful trip with a wonderful family.