Dogs Trust, the UK's largest dog welfare charity has joined forces with readersheds for a special competition. Until the 1st June, the public are invited to design-a-doggy-shed. It could be plush puppy place or a shaggy dog look-alike shed let your imagination run wild!

Entries can be submitted online below or posted to:

The winner will be chosen by Shedweek judges Sarah Beeny (presenter of Channel 4's Property Ladder), Rico Daniels (star of the Discovery Channel's The Salvager) and Alex Johnston (of 'Shed Lifestyle' website www.shedworking.co.uk) plus an expert from Dogs Trust and yours truly and probably sprout as well.

The winning design will then become a reality thanks to the organisers crack team of construction experts and will go on display at Dogs Trust Bridgend.

*Dogs Trust and Shedweek reserve the right to make changes to aid construction where necessary.

Of course if you can design a dog shed then I am sure you can design a normal shed! so once you have done that why not SHARE it for Shed of the Year 2009, The closing date for that is Sunday 3rd May 2009