'I just love it' - Adlington woman brings Crufts award back to Lancashire village
Rebecca Moores, 27, a dog groomer from Adlington won two brilliant awards at this year’s prestigious Crufts competition.
Rebecca is a dog groomer by trade owning Clean and Classy Dog Groomers for over 3 years in Adlington. Despite attending multiple competitions before, this is the first time that Rebecca has entered the prestigious Crufts competition.
For the categories, Rebecca entered her poodle Tonic into the Cross Grooming Competition and the Champion Poodle Class.
After a nerve-wracking few days, Rebecca found out that she had won the Champion Poodle Class. As well as this, she also came home with the amazing title of Reserve Best Groomer in Show.
On winning the title of Reserve Best Groomer in Show, Rebecca said: “It was incredible, just because it’s such a big honour and the judge who was selecting the reserve, Melanie Winters-Holmes, she’s legendary within the competition. So, it was incredible.”
On the morning of the big competition, Rebecca recalls how anxious she felt as she awaited the judges final decisions.
She said: “In the morning and especially on the first day when it was just the poodle champion class, I was so incredibly nervous because I love the poodles so much. To calm down, I’ll groom them so I just bathed my other dog while I was waiting for the competition to calm down. I had a look at my resting heart rate at one point and it was 138!”
Rebecca owes the success to her hard work, determination to succeed and the support she has received from her mum.
She said: “I just work as hard as I physically can. I’m always trying to improve what I’m doing. After the awards were all given out I gave the judges a hug and said thank you very much, they told me that I really deserved it which was so nice to hear from people that I’ve aspired to for so many years.”
On bringing this special award back to Adlington, Rebecca said: “It’s a little village that I absolutely adore. I love it! I’ve lived there my entire life and I would never want to live anywhere else. I’m just a person who lives in such a happy little town that gets to do something amazing.”
In addition to this, Rebecca co-owns a couple of other poodles with her friend Sam, one of whom won The Bitch CC title at Crufts this year.
Rebecca has now truly got a taste for Crufts and is now looking forward to returning next year for even more awards.