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The next NERS 1-star show will be held on Saturday 1st June 2013 at:

Gosforth Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Road
Gosforth
Tyne and Wear
NE3 1XR

Doors will open to exhibitors at 10.15am, rats to be benched at 10:45am (no late entries will be accepted after this time), judging to start at 11am prompt.

Show Sec: toyah Leitch
Varieties Judge: Alison Triggs
Pet Judge: Stacey Cochrane
Agility Judge: Beri Instone

  • NERS Emporium
  • NERS kitchen with snacks and refreshments
  • Cromarty’s cuddle corner
  • Cosybedsandburrows trade stand
  • Raffle - contributions gratefully received
  • Fun events

Entry deadline for standard entry rates: Wednesday 29th May.

Please send entries via the online entry form or email showentries@neratsociety.co.uk

All rats can be entered into any number and any combination of the 3 sections in the show: Varieties, Pets and Agility. Rats entered in Varieties and Pets must be tanked.

Fees Members Non-members
Entries (per section, per exhibit) £1.50 £2.00
Late entries (per section, per exhibit) £2.50 £3.00
Hire tanks cost £1.50 per tank for the first four hired, and £2.50 per tank for each further tank required. The number of tanks available to each member may be limited depending on demand.
All shoulder rats must be registered prior to the show, and there is a 50p registration charge per animal.

Usual infection control rules apply:
Please do not bring your rats if you have had - or had contact with -

  • Any acute (new) infection related illness or unexpected deaths in the past 2 weeks;
  • Brought in any new rats over the past 2 weeks;
  • Been to any other shows or gatherings of rats in the past 2 weeks;
  • Any rat related contact with rats of unknown background (eg rescue centre, pet shop) in the past 2 weeks;
  • A virus within a small group of rats within the past 4 weeks:
  • A virus within a group of 15 or more rats, or when raising a litter within the past 8 weeks.
Individual circumstances will be considered, if you are unsure whether or not you can attend with your rats please contact the show sec by email on showentries@neratsociety.co.uk. Help us to keep your rats safe!

For your information:
The next NERS show after this will be the 1-star Thirsk show on 10th August. For future show dates, please refer to our show calendar.

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