Lagotto Romagnolo, nicknamed Orca, became the star of the Best in Show dog show and received the main prize.
The four-year-old Orca was the first lagotto romagnolo to win the Crufts Best In Show award. He arrived with owner Javier Gonzalez Mendicote from Rijeka in Croatia. And the owner said that now his childhood dream has come true. The Daily Mail writes about it.
The Orka had won more than 40 dog show wins in Europe and the USA before taking on the Kennel Club’s 150th anniversary title as the most famous dog in the world.
The Lagotto Romagnolo was bred in Italy in the Middle Ages to hunt waterfowl in swamps. Lagotto is translated from the Romagna dialect as “duck dog”. However, in the 1970s the breed almost disappeared. Now dogs of this breed are used to look for truffles, as they have an incredibly keen sense of smell.
The show at the Birmingham National Exhibition Center brought together dogs from all over Europe. There was even a participant from the Ukrainian city of Odessa. Elena Yaroshchuk came with two pets at once: Jack Russell Terrier and Corgi, and she was very happy that she managed to participate in the show, although she did not receive an award.
His daughter said, “There is a saying in Ukraine that if you’ve been to Paris, you can die happy. For people who truly love dogs, maybe there’s a saying: You can die happy when you visit Crufts.” Daria.
Also among the finalists of the show was Paris, the Irish wolfhound owned by The Real Thing vocalist Chris Amu. Paris became popular with the public. Amu oude previously won Best of Show for an Afghan Hound in 1987 and has now started breeding Irish Wolfhounds on his Cheshire farm to preserve the old breed.
The RSPCA Rescue Dog of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier breed was named Hero Dog of the Year.
Nine-year-old Stella is a police officer looking for drugs, money and firearms. After She received the award, she smashed the microphone of one of the journalists.
More than 19,000 dogs competed for one of the seven spots in the Kraft final. As a result, fate also smiled at the wirehaired fox terrier named Blanca from Germany, Delia the Old English Sheepdog from Greece, and the Doberman Archie from West Sussex.
remember before Focus He talked about the rarest dog breeds in the world. The Lagotto Romagnolo isn’t the only dog breed on the brink of extinction.
Source: Focus
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