Six year old from Staffordshire entering his dog at crufts.

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A young man called Freddie Osbourne from Enville, Stourbridge aged just six will be competing at Crufts this year as he turns just old enough to enter a few weeks before the event.

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00:00So we're here in Enville and a very smartly dressed young man, what's your name sir?

00:05Freddie. Freddie and who's with you Freddie? My dog called Penny and my mum.

00:11What's mum's name? Kim. Kim, hello Kim and Freddie and Penny.

00:16What type of dog is Penny? Smooth fox terrier. Now a little bird tells me you're taking

00:29Penny to a rather special dog show coming up, is that right? What's it called, the dog show?

00:39Crofts, the big one. Wowzers. So you're showing off Penny, aren't you? You're going there to

00:46compete, yeah? And actually, are you in a competition today? Yeah. Yeah, where have

00:52you got to go today? Do you know? Do you remember? You've got to get to Stafford.

00:58Manchester dog show today, isn't it Freddie? Yeah. It's the last qualify before Crofts,

01:02isn't it? So he's a young lad, isn't he mum, to be competing at Crofts?

01:06He's not old enough to do young kennel club. You've got to be how old?

01:10Six. And you're nearly? Seven. Nearly six. Nearly six. So what's the story then mum,

01:17how long's he been involved in the world of dogs then? You came when you were, what,

01:22two weeks old? You came to Crofts for this? Yeah. And you've got come everything and you've been

01:29doing the dogs with us, haven't you, and helping, but you just haven't been old enough to compete.

01:33And next year I'm going to be doing more dog showing. Yeah, you can do young kennel club

01:39next year, can't you? Yeah. So you're involved in the world of breeding now, aren't you mum?

01:46Yeah, we, in a partnership with a lady called Margaret Hughes, who's got a lot of years

01:51experience with the breed, which is what introduced us and she's given us a lot of

01:54support and help to get to where we are. Now these, these gorgeous dogs like Penny,

01:59which you were saying in the 1930s, they were one of the most popular dogs in the country,

02:04is that right? Yeah. And believe it or not, they're classed as an endangered species,

02:08are they? Endangered breed? They're a vulnerable breed in the kennel clubs list, yeah.

02:12But what, what, what are they like, Smooth Fox Terrier, as a, as a kind of a family dog?

02:17They've been great for us. Yeah. They need about an hour of exercise a day.

02:22So helpful if you've got a little five-year-old.

02:25And they're just, they're just really loving. We call Penny the cat, don't we?

02:29The cat? The cat, because she's, she's, um, likes to curl up and, and give lots of cuddles.

02:35So what, what do you like about having your dog then? See, I haven't got a dog. I've only

02:40literally got a cat. So tell me about some of the fun things you do with Penny.

02:45She likes to lick people and sit on your lap and stuff.

02:51She likes, likes a cuddle, does she? Yeah. And she likes to lick her, his brother.

02:57Yeah. She likes to play, doesn't she? Yeah. Yeah. She likes to go on walks. Yeah.

03:03On the beach. Yeah. On the beach, in the sand, she likes that.

03:06Or run on the beach. It's her favourite thing. Yeah. Do you run with her then?

03:10She's been on a kayak for this, hasn't she? Yeah.

03:13On a kayak? What? She's like a stunt dog.

03:19I bet there's not too many dogs competing at Crufts that have been on a kayak.

03:23I bet you, there should be a special category, I think, for you, for that.

03:28So the best thing in my whole life, and I love doing dog shows,

03:33is like doing dog shows, getting prizes, rosettes. So I like it because I know my dogs,

03:41my dogs sometimes are good. But when they're, I don't really like it when they lick that much.

03:50But I know dogs are really sensitive to people because they love people. Because they,

03:59dogs have never, the dogs are really active to people because the people love the dogs

04:07and the dogs don't know what the people are. So I kind of like my dog because she's,

04:13I like the word Penny because I love the word pup.

04:22What about you saying about Penny, how she's your best friend and that she looks after you?

04:29I like my dog because I take her for walks on the deck of my ride. I like it when I take her for

04:41walks because it's fun and it's nice to get fresh air. Do you want to ask him some questions?

04:54Don't speak funny, she's speaking funny.

05:00Do you know what Penny's show name is? It's a hard one, isn't it? It's Forgevale Quadril.

05:09So the dogs are all named, aren't they, after each year when they're breeding. So they have

05:14a different, you have to start with a different letter, don't name the alphabet. So Penny was Q,

05:22so she was Quadril, wasn't she? And then our other dog, Charlie, it was S and he's Supremo.

05:30So all the dogs are called Forgevale, aren't they? And what about Charlie? Is he up to showing or is

05:36he a bit less? He's our champion stud dog. How is he? Freddie will be showing him next year,

05:41won't you? He'll be showing Charlie next year because Freddie's a bit small to handle Charlie

05:45at the moment. So that's why you're handling Penny, aren't you? I would want to hold him. You

05:50can hear him, can't you? He hurt me with her dog toes.

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