Rabbit and Cavy Club looks to attract more youngsters
EFFORTS to attract and encourage more youngsters are going to be made by Guernsey’s Rabbit and Cavy Club as it prepares to celebrate its 60th birthday next year.
As the club staged its sixth and last show of the year at St John’s Church Hall, president Krissi Carre said it was hoped to set up a junior committee.
The recent show had been the best she had seen since taking up the role of president, she said, with 61 rabbits shown.
‘It’s been quite a while since we had more than 40. And we had 20 guinea pigs and one hamster.’
In another effort to attract younger people the event was offering a colouring competition and a tombola as well as the chance to pet one of the rabbits on show.
‘At the end of this year we’re planning to introduce a junior committee for next year,’ she said. This would comprise members aged 16 and under.
Although this was the sixth show of the year it was only the second which had seen a visiting judge from the UK, and this time it was Dianne Williams, who said this was probably her fourth visit to the Guernsey show.
She said it was good to see the local club doing so well, particularly since many regional ones in the UK had folded during the pandemic.
‘I think the guys here do really well,’ she said.
Part of the move to get youngsters involved was the introduction of a class aimed at pets and Mrs Williams said when it came to judging these entries she was looking for different aspects to when she judged the breed examples: ‘They should be easy to handle and clean and in generally good health,’ she said.
