The Lonely Hearts Dog Walkers by Sheila Norton

Author:Sheila Norton [Norton, Sheila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473564046
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

As it happened, it was Amber who had news for us all at our next scheduled meeting about the pet show.

‘I’ve been talking to Kelly, one of the nurses at the vet’s,’ she said. ‘You know I’ve had to take Benji a few times about his skin recently.’ Poor Benji had developed horribly itchy skin, which the vet had diagnosed as an allergy, and was trying to determine the cause. ‘She’s really excited about the pet show – she’s going to enter her own two rabbits – and she’s got Mr Brent’s agreement to put posters up in the surgery.’

‘That’s great’ Simon smiled enthusiastically.

‘And also she says she can ask him if he’ll be one of the judges if we like.’

Mr Brent was the senior vet at the practice. To have him on board, especially as a judge, would be really helpful. We were all enthusiastic, and went on to discuss who else we could ask to be judges.

‘Ideally we need three,’ Sara pointed out. ‘So that there can be a majority verdict, if there’s any disagreement about the best in any class.’

‘And they need to be unbiased,’ I added. ‘Someone who knows about pets, but isn’t entering one.’

‘What about the lady who runs the boarding kennels?’ Craig suggested. ‘She’s looked after Judy sometimes when I’ve gone away. I’ll give her a call and ask her, if you like.’

‘Good idea,’ Sara approved. ‘And, to be honest, there’s no reason why one of us can’t be a judge. We can’t enter our own pets – it would be seen as unfair.’

‘That’s a shame,’ I said. ‘I suppose you’re right, but Mia was hoping to enter Smartie in the best children’s pet class.’

‘Oh, that’s fine, surely?’ Simon said, and the others nodded agreement. ‘This isn’t exactly Crufts. I don’t think anyone’s going to take it too seriously.’

‘Actually,’ Sara said, ‘I hope they will. It needs to be taken seriously, if we’re going to have any chance of changing the council’s mind about the park. So we all need to pray for nice weather, a good turnout, and lots of interest and enthusiasm from the press, the people of Furzewell – and the wider Devon population. This is our chance to show them what we can do. We can’t afford to treat it as if it’s just a bit of fun.’ She looked around at us, her face deadly serious. ‘This is war, guys. And the pet show is only going to be the first battle.’

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