{"id":16636,"date":"2026-02-28T00:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=16636"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:18:23","slug":"competing-in-the-crufts-obedience-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=16636","title":{"rendered":"Competing In the Crufts Obedience Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">ARTICLES of GENERAL INTEREST<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">COMPETING IN THE CRUFTS OBEDIENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Two local canine residents Eva and Asher Heath have made their dog mum very proud as they both won championship dog obedience classes last year which meant they were invited to compete in the annual Crufts Obedience Championships in 2026. They can often be seen training for competition at Station Road playing fields. Eva is Asher\u2019s mother and qualified for last year\u2019s Crufts, but she now returns there after becoming an Obedience Champion. Eva and dog mum, Carolyn (of Greave Close), are the only team from Wales competing. Asher is competing for the first time and is the youngest dog to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=16618\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16618\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=16618\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Crufts.jpg?fit=500%2C346\" data-orig-size=\"500,346\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Crufts\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Crufts.jpg?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Crufts.jpg?fit=500%2C346\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16618\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Crufts.jpg?resize=500%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Crufts.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Crufts.jpg?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTICLES of GENERAL INTEREST COMPETING IN THE CRUFTS OBEDIENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Two local canine residents Eva and Asher Heath have made their dog mum very proud as they both won championship dog obedience classes last year which meant they were invited to compete in the annual Crufts Obedience Championships in 2026. They can often be seen training for competition at Station [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[334,431,228],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-4kk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16748,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=16748","url_meta":{"origin":16636,"position":0},"title":"Crufts 2026","author":"Alan Williams","date":"26th March 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"ARTICLES of GENERAL INTEREST CRUFTS 2026 Eva and Asher were doggy superstars at Crufts 2026. 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