Pet Doctors Prizes for Big Wiggly Winners

Wiggly Winners!There were prizes galore at Summerlea County Primary School in Rustington on Tuesday when staff from Pet Doctors Veterinary Clinics announced the winners of their recent Big Wiggly Bookmarker Competition.

During October, Pet Doctors supported the Big Wiggly campaign.  The purpose of this campaign was to educate pet owners on the importance of regular worming and flea treatment for their pets and on the dangers of Toxocara which can be passed from pets to children.   The campaign was fronted, and supported by, Kim & Aggie from "How Clean is your House".

The staff at Pet Doctors, Rustington invited the four classes in Year 1 and 2 at Summerlea County Primary School to enter their competition to design a Pet Doctors bookmarker.  The only rule was that the bookmarker had to contain something to do with Pet Doctors and worms!

"The offer of this competition coincided perfectly with the children's current project on hygiene in the home, so we were delighted to take part," said Carla Strong, Years 1 & 2 Leader.

On Tuesday, Lisa Brockhurst, veterinary nurse at Pet Doctors Rustington together with 10 year old Labrador-cross Jenny - who regularly visit the school to give talks - visited the school to announce the winners and present the prizes.

"We had 120 designs to choose from.  My colleagues and I found it very difficult to judge the winners as all the entries were excellent and we could see that the children had put a lot of effort into their designs," said Lisa.

All the prize winners received goodie bags containing cuddly toys and games and all the children received a gift of a Big Wiggly T-shirt and some wiggly worm sweets!

The overall winning design from the four First Prize Winners won a further prize and also a wormery for her class.  As part of the prize for the overall winner, Pet Doctors will have her design printed and made into bookmarkers.  Half of these will be given to the school for the children and half will be sold at Pet Doctors Veterinary Clinic in Rustington to raise funds for WADARS (Worthing And District Animal Rescue Service).

At the end of the presentations, to ensure the class teachers did not feel left out, Lisa presented each of them with a pair of very stylish (and fluffy!) marigold gloves!

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