About 230 dogs, and their owners, from all over the South Island headed to Dunedin over the long weekend for the Dogs New Zealand and Waikouaiti Kennel Association Dog Show at Forrester Park.
The canines were small and large, short and tall and some were more elegant that others.
Entries were slightly down on last year but the standards appeared to be high.
She has been breeding the Samoyeds for 33 years and sold each one for between $3000-$3500, all linked to the first she imported all those years ago.
Competition was both indoors and outside, judges looking for how closely each dog aligned with the written breed standard of the dog.
Anne Sissons, of Christchurch, showed her Gordon setter, a setter with Scottish roots.
Mrs Sissons said she was named Mirren, after actress Helen Mirren, who was the star of the Prime Suspect television series, of which she was a big fan.
Mirren’s half-brother won in the best Gordon grade at Crufts Dog Show in London two years ago.
