Crufts: the overexcitable dog-shopper's paradise

British people love their dogs. I realise this is about as world-shattering a headline as "The British: We Like Tea" but, though it's often quoted, I never realised just how MUCH the British love their dogs until I went to Crufts. Judging from the crowds that throng the halls of the NEC - buying anything and everything in sight as long as it has 'dog' written somewhere on the label; or a picture of a dog on it. or is in the shape of a dog, whatever, they'll buy it - it appears that they love them 'A Lot'.