I’ve just had an email from a Rainbow Guide pack leader to see if they are eligible to enter our National Pet Month ‘Love is’ scrapbook competition, called ‘Teacher’s Pet’. The answer is - yes they are - we’d love to receive entries from youth groups. My twin girls are now older guides, but I know they would have loved to have done something like this. (And,

judging by the way they pored over the Crufts catalogue they took home after the NPM launch, they still would!).

If any leaders would like to drop an email to me at info@nationalpetmonth.org.uk, then I’ll gladly get a free events pack off to you with posters and advice.