Police are continuing to investigate an incident in which a pedigree dog was allegedly poisoned at world-famous dog show, Crufts.
Three-year-old show dog Thendara Satisfaction- more commonly referred to as Jagger- died at home after returning from her appearance at Crufts.
Jagger’s owners Dee Milligan-Bott and Alexandra Lauwers are convinced that their dog was poisoned due to the sudden nature of her death.
They believe she was poisoned when she was fed cubes of meat.
Mrs Milligan-Bott told dogworld.co.uk: "All the dogs were all running and playing together and Jagger seemed a bit tired, unable to keep up with the others.
"Three or four hours later after getting back to Belgium he collapsed and by the time the vet arrived he was dead.
"The post-mortem showed that two or three different poisons were used and that it is likely it was administered on Thursday morning; we’re now waiting for exact toxicology reports.
"Whoever did this knew what they were doing, trying to get exactly the right type of poison with a slow release."
She believes a competitor poisoned Jagger after they became jealous when she was award second place in her category,
She added: "There would have been windows of opportunity for someone to feed Jagger something at Crufts. It’s been suggested that someone’s really got it in for us, and to not let it get to us. There do seem to be too many coincidences. You go to shows trying to win, and one of our dogs is on a roll at the moment, and our kennel had a good day at Crufts on Thursday.
"We’re very proud of our record and maybe some people aren’t happy.
"But there’s no excuse for this. Sometimes you can’t prove anything but you know in your gut what has happened and that something very untoward is going on.”
Police are now waiting for a full toxicology report following the dog’s sad death.