Introducing Ruff To Ready Dog Groomers. Owned by Charles C. Spaniel an eccentric pet fan and railway enthusiast since his childhood, Charles bought this Cumbrian Sandstone cottage as a wreck and transformed it to what we see today. The ground floor of this building now acts as a pet groomers and the second floor as a pet café where minifigures and their well groomed pets can go to enjoy a hot drink and a sweet treat.

Ground Floor:

The ground floor of this building features plenty of authentically British details including stunning cobblestone streets, a red post-box, beautiful flower beds and pots and gorgeous Victorian style streetlamps on the exterior. Internally there is a fully fitted dog groomers with a customer toilet, shop counter, grooming tables for small and large dogs, shower cubicles and sinks to wash cats and dogs in and the infamous “rage cage” to dry those cats who are less than co-operative. Out the back of the property lies a modest rear garden featuring plenty of doggy play equipment, more flower beds and a small utilities section in the alcove behind the property.

First Floor:

Accessed via covered external cobblestone steps, the second floor of this building features a pet-friendly café. Lining the walls are photos Charles has taken with his daughter on their various expeditions to heritage railways, as well as pictures of the animals who have visited this café before and a ferret run for some of the smaller furry friends. The café itself features a generously sticked serving area with coffee machine, sinks and mouth-watering cakes on offer to customers as well as pet treats. There are plenty of tables and chairs set throughout the café and a roaring fire in the corner to keep the area nice and warm.

Loft Space:

Finally at the top of the building is the loft space. Her is where Charles stores the extra equipment to run his café, as well as the plenty of Lego sets that he has in his backlog. Accessed via a hatch and ladder with realistic locking mechanism this space tops the property off nicely.

Meet The Minifigures:

Charles C. Spaniel: Owner of both Ruff To Ready and The Furista, Charles loves anything furry and is also a big fan of steam railways, two passions which he shares with his daughter Amelia. You can often find Charles manning the front desk in Ruff To Ready, waiting to greet new customers and meet some new furry friends.

Amelia: Daughter of Charles, Amelia loves grooming the dogs that come into the business. You can often find her in the showers giving the bogger dogs a bath, when she isn’t out on excursions to look at steam locomotives with her Dad of course!

Renée: Charles’ loving wife, Renée loves to interact with people and as such can be found most often serving customers in The Furista café. Here she can interact with people from all walks of life, though she loves to chat with her regulars the most.

Margerie: After retiring from her day job, Margerie decided to take on two rescue dogs and can now be found most days sat in The Furista with a nice cu of coffee talking with Renée, whilst she takes a mid-walkies break.

The Young Couple: These two lovebirds met at work on a graduate program and have since taken to coming to the Furista for a date at least once a week. Despite not being able to have any pets of their own yet, they hope to one day come here with their own dogs!

Ed: Ruff to Ready’s cat specialist, Ed takes no chances and has recently procured a full set of medieval armour to assist with grooming the cats. Despite all his colleagues saying this is overkill, Ed is convinced that this was the best purchase he has ever made!

PC Borzoi: The local villages K9 unit lead, PC borzoi loves nothing more than spending time with his two work dogs Max and Alfie the puppy. At least once a week he will take his car to Ruff to Ready to pamper his two dogs and will never fail to drop into The Furista for a donut and coffee on the way out!

There are also many other employees and customers to keep an eye out for who regularly visit the Furista and Ruff To Ready.

To answer the question about why so many Alsatians and not may other dogs before it gets asked, these are the only dogs available in the palette, should this win I will push to get more different breeds added to the set to replace some of the Alsatians.