Breed: JRT x Whippet x Something Else Date of Birth: December 2000 Weight & Height: 12kg, 16.5″ KC Registered Name: Return of the Kim AW(S) KC Agility Grade: Six BAA Agility Level: Novice BAD-Bronze Flyball Team: Leeds ‘Owlers Flyball Titles: FD FDI FDG FDA FD-Silver

Crufts YKC Team Agility 2007 Finalist Crufts YKC Flyball 2007 Finalist BAA Introductory Medium Dog of the Year 2006/07 Lurcher League II Grade 2 Top Point Scorer 2007 Ruffdogs Agility League Grades 1/2 Top Point Scorer 2007 BAA Grand Prix Introductory Agility Finalist 2007 BAA Grand Prix Introductory Jumping Finalist 2007 BFA Summer Championships 2007 Division 8 Winner BAA Grand Prix Primary Jumping Final 2008 Runner-Up BFA British Flyball Championships 2009 Division 24 Winner Dog Vegas Small/Medium Combined 3-5 Agility Finalist 2009 BAA Medium Team Trios Challenge 2009 Finalist

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Kim was born at John Whitaker’s farm in Upper Cumberworth. She was probably destined to be an agility and flyball dog, growing up around all those showjumpers. It’s probably what gave her a superiority complex.

How can I even start to describe Kim? She’s noisy, bitchy, possessive, impatient, stubborn and spoilt. She isn’t affectionate or loving; people are there to pander to her whims and commands, and that’s about it. That might involve you stroking her beautiful velvet ears, or rubbing her pristine white belly, or even holding her dainty paws, but it’s all for her enjoyment, not yours. Kim isn’t a princess, she’s a queen holding full court.

And yet. I love all our dogs, but I love Kim more. I know you’re not supposed to say that, but she owns it. She’s fiesty and independent and smart. She knows what “sausages” means, and you can’t make a comment about smelly things without her running and hiding, because she has learnt that smelly is a word associated with baths.

She hates the cold and the wet, hates swimming but loves snow. Despite her desire to roll on the most disgusting products nature can produce, she is fastidious about keeping clean and, given an hour, can emerge looking sparkling white (the smell does linger though). She hates puppies but loves big manly-male dogs, but generally just tolerates other dogs as a nuisance you can’t get rid of. She smiles at people she likes, and can always be found in the highest perch or the warmest spot in the house.

Kim is happiest in a noisy room full of people where she is the centre of attention, and therefore she loved competing at Crufts 2007. Really though, she’s happy anywhere if there is someone to pay her the attention she feels she is due, and it never takes long to find someone. She looks at you with her big, brown, sad eyes, and nobody can resist.

Kim passed her Good Citizen Dog Scheme (Bronze) in April 2006 with flying colours.

Read more about Kim … BAA Finals Weekend Booster A Mixture of Things Rother… Tyne? British Flyball Championships 2010 Smug