Crufts: seven dogs battle for top prize

824AM GMT fourteen March 2010

A dog and the owners at Crufts Photo RII SCHROER

Organisers the Kennel Club pronounced roughly 22,000 dogs opposite 187 breeds were entered in to this year"s Best in Show competition.

They have been whittled down during the four-day competition to only 7 dogs who will conflict it out for the pretension on Sunday.

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The begin of this year"s show at Birmingham"s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) saw protesters accumulate outward the eventuality claiming breeders were ""creating a Frankenstein"s beast of a dog"".

The dog showcase has been promote on More4 this year after the BBC - that began screening Crufts in 1966 - voiced it was dropping the coverage in Dec 2008.

The preference followed a BBC documentary claiming Crufts authorised deleterious tact practices that caused disease and deformities.

The RSPCA additionally withdrew the await in 2008 since of gratification concerns.

Since then, the Kennel Club and the Dogs Trust mutually saved an eccentric exploration in a bid to plunge into inbreeding in pedigrees, puppy tillage and alternative gratification issues.

At the begin of this year"s show the Kennel Club pronounced it was ""committed to ensuring that each dog"s hold up is as full of health and happy as it can be"".

As well as coverage on More4, Crufts is being streamed live online and the central site on Facebook has captivated some-more than 21,000 fans.

The Best in Show esteem has been awarded for the past 79 years, with 40 breeds winning the desired pretension over the years.

Winners have been comparison from opposite categories via this year"s show and tonight 7 dogs will conflict for the changed prize, together with a Rottweiler, a Welsh Corgi, Scottish Terrier and a Pharaoh Houndn.