"Old News?!"
Karen and Kes performing in Denmark, October 2007
20th April 2008:
Kath and Spice were entertaining at the Winter Dressage Championships on the 18th and 19th. See more here!
14 April 2008:
New article about Channel 4's 'Strictly Canine Dancing' where Karen and Kath taught Rose & Tilly and Beth & Billy to dance.
7th April 2008:
Photos from The Westglen Show online.
Photos from The Pedigree Stand at Crufts
A new article and photos from Spice and Fly's appearance on ITV's 'This Morning'
The Previous Event page has been updated.
5th April 2008:
The Top Lodge Dogs did very well at The Westglen Show in Worcester on 5th of April.
Lesley and Angus won Novice HTM.
Kath and Tipp placed 2nd in Advanced HTM, Karen and Fly 3rd and Kath and Amber 4th.
Lesley and Angus placed 3rd in Advanced Freestyle, Kath and Spice 4th and Karen and Kes 6th.
Tipp, Fly and Angus have now qualified for the Crufts Semi-final 2009.
3rd April 2008:
New photos from Crufts 2008.
23rd March 2008:
New photos of Spice from Crufts 2008
New photos of 10 mth old Hamish.
21st March 2008:
Lots of photos from Crufts 2008.
New Crufts photos on Kes, Fly, Amber, Tipp and Spice's pages!
20th March 2008:
Most of Tipp's Crufts routine is on YouTube.
Parts of Karen and Fly's winning routine have been uploaded too. See Part 1 and part 2 here.
And some of Amber's: part 1 and part 2.
Thank you to 'Veroonicaa7' for appreciating the routines enough to put them online.
13th March 2008:
Spice and Fly promoted HTM well on ITV's 'This Morning' on the 11th March. Fern Britten and Paul Schofield talked to Karen and Kath about winning Crufts and Kath & Spice and Karen & Fly did a short routine on live TV.
10th March 2008:
What a Crufts!!!!!!
First of all CONGRATULATIONS TO KATH AND SPICE ON WINNING THE BRITISH AND THE INTERNATIONAL FREESTYLE FINALS.
They looked fantastic in the ring and the audience loved their routine. They were the only team to get a standing ovation Thursday.
Their performance Saturday was impossible to beat!!!! No other team was even close to their level.
Also CONGRATULATIONS TO KAREN AND FLY ON WINNING THE BRITISH HTM FINAL .
They performed a breathtaking routine and moved the audience to tears.
Karen, Kath, Spice and Fly will be on ITV's "This Morning" on the 11th March from 10:30 and onwards.
Karen and Kes placed 5th in the British Freestyle Final. Kath and Tipp placed 5th in the British HTM Final and Kath and Amber placed 6th.
See Kath and Tipp perform their stunning new Irish routine here!
1st March 2008:
Crufts is in less than a week now and we are busy getting ready. Our dog's did very well at the Semi-Finals in Coventry and all Kath and Karen's dogs qualified to compete at Crufts. Kes and Spice will be in the Freestyle Final on the 6th of March and Fly, Amber and Tipp will be in the HTM Final on the 7th. Wish us luck!
Lesley will be judging all 3 HTM Finals at Crufts. Congratulations Lesley, on being invited to judge such an important event.
Download Score Card from CFGBs website here and get more info about running orders, judges etc.
2nd February 2008:
Spice has been invited to entertain at the Winter Dressage Championships Friday 18th and Saturday 19th April.
1st February 2008:
We are busy getting ready for the Crufts Semi-Finals in Coventry. Please keep your fingers crossed for us on the 23rd of February!
1st January 2008:
New video of Tipp and Kath dancing at Crufts on Tipp's page.
23rd December 2007:
The saddest sound in the world is the sound of a friend's last breath.
The Top Lodge Trio has had to say goodbye to a very special friend today.
Keep Dancing Sweet Ginnie – let the Angels enjoy your grace and passion, which we will miss so much.
Our thoughts are with you Kath and David .
7th December 2007:
We have a new guestbook. Please sign it :-)
1st December 2007:
The Top Lodge Danicing Dogs did well in the “dancing-with-dogs.co.uk's" And the winner is… ballots.
Amber was voted Best HTM Bitch 2007. She has won more Advanced HTM classes than any dog this year.
Angus was Best Freestyle Dog and Dog Of The Year 2007, winning Crufts and the International.
Spice was Best Freestyle Bitch and her routine to ‘If I Only Had A Brain' was Best Routine 2007. Kath's Scarecrow costume for that routine was voted Best Costume 2007.
New article from the Belfast Horse Show.
28th November 2007:
New article about Kath, Karen, Amber, Spice, Kes and Fly's journey to Denmark and Belgium.
16th November 2007:
Ginnie, Amber and Kath's pages updated with video clips.
15th November 2007:
New photos from Kath and Karen's training days in Denmark. They taught 2 training days, which was a great success. The feedback from the handlers has been very positive.
14th November 2007:
New page for Puppy Hamish.
3rd November 2007:
Angus has his own page now and new article about Lesley's Crufts Adventures (2007) - including a video of Angus' Crufts performance.
1st November 2007:
New photos of Amber and Kath winning HTM Class 3 in Denmark!
Kath and Karen are in Belgium now to teach a training day. They will return to England on Sunday.
30th October 2007:
Kath and Karen has had a busy weekend in Denmark judging, training/assessing new judges, performing and teaching 2 training days. Their training days were a great success and the handlers learned a lot.
Kath and Karen will be leaving Denmark tomorrow to go to Belgium, where they will teach another training day.
27th October 2007:
Kath and Karen did well competing in Denmark. Kath & Spice won Freestyle Class 3 (advanced) and Karen & Kes came 4th. Kath & Amber won HTM Class 3. See photos from the day here!
25th October 2007:
Angus does well at the 2nd Northern Ireland International Horse Show. More to come!
18th October 2007:
Small updates on Karen's and her dogs' pages. New photo of Kath's first dog Tess and of Baby-Ginnie.
8th October 2007:
New page in loving memory of Lesley's Robbie.
23rd September 2007:
New photo of Baby Ginnie on Ginnie's page.
October 2007:
Kath and Karen will be travelling to Denmark to judge, compete and teach. They have been invited by the Danish Border Collie Club and it will be their 4th visit in Denmark. Read about a previous visit here!
On their way home they will be calling in Belgium to teach a one day seminar.
October 2007:
Lesley and Angus will be performing at the 2nd Northern Ireland International Horse Show. Read about the 2006 Horse Show here.
8th and 9th September 2007:
Kath and Karen had great success at Tomlinson's, Markfield, Leics at the Canine Freestyle GB show. Karen and Kes were the Winners of Advanced FS and Kath and Spice were placed 2nd. Kath and Amber won Advanced HTM, Kath and Tipp were placed 2nd and Karen and Fly were placed 3rd.
31th August:
Kath and Karen were back on Channel 4's 'Strictly Canine Dancing' Karen was invited to be one of the 3 judges and Kath went as Beth and Billy's Trainer in the Final. Kath, Beth and Billy WON!!!!! Congratulations to all 3 of them.
24th August 2007:
Kath, Karen and their handlers Rose and Beth had a good day on Channel 4's 'Strictly Canine Dancing'. We all congratulate Beth and Billy on their win and wish them good luck in the Final on the 31st. Also well done to Rose and Tilly - keep dancing!
11th August 2007:
Kath had an amazing day at the Canine Freestyle GB show at mypetstop®, placing 1st (Amber), 2nd (Tipp) and 3rd (Ginnie) in Advanced HTM. See the rest of our results here!
12th and 13th May 2007:
The Top Lodge trio + partners have been busy organizing and dancing at the Canine Freestyle GB Show in Brentwood. See our results here.
21st July 2007:
Lesley are proud to present the newest addition to the Neville Family: Baby Hamish. The rest of the team wish them a bright future and have great faith that they will carry on the proud tradition of the Top Lodge Dancing Dogs.