Never mind the ridiculously well groomed, perfectly obedient Best in Show winner of Crufts 2017.
We’ve no time for that shit.
Instead, here are a few words to describe what, in our opinion, was by far the greatest dog to have appeared at Crufts 2017.
His name is Olly, a Jack Russell that had been re-homed at 10 weeks old.
As becomes perfectly clear after just a few seconds of the footage below, Olly hasn’t benefited from the kind of training that might allow some of the other dogs appearing at Crufts to negotiate their way around the obstacle course in an organised and controlled way.
He’s great at running through the pipe tunnel, yet not so great when it comes to negotiating the weaving poles. While he’s enough spring in his tiny legs to clear most of the hurdles, his lack of coordination means that he’s prone to spectacularly miscalculating his landing once in a while, as he shows when he lands and slides for the best part of a metre on his face.
But does that deter him? Not one bit. Up he gets, running around wherever the fuck he likes, taking time to sniff the perimeter fence here and there before eventually deciding he’d had enough and scuttling off out of the arena.
Absolute legend.
Here’s to Olly. The people’s Cruft champion, 2017.
We're still chuckling at little Olly's unfathomable confidence in yesterday's rescue dog agility! What an amazing dog! #Crufts pic.twitter.com/fG3EuiLYoK
— The Kennel Club (@TheKennelClubUK) March 11, 2017
