Unattended Equipment Safety
09 May 2008
I saw a tragic story come through on a number of agility email lists a couple weeks ago that I thought I should share it with those of you…
Can You Name This Agility Game?
24 Apr 2008
I was at a Suzanne Clothier seminar in CT this last weekend and was speaking about agility with dog behaviorist and researcher Dr. Rudy de…
Meeker's First USDAA Trial
16 Apr 2008
Well Meeker and I put on our "big boy pants" and tried his first USDAA agility trial this past weekend (only my second USDAA trial…
Contact Cozies: Keeping Contacts Safe
07 Apr 2008
Here's my interpretation of the Contact Cozies Steve Stochaj wrote about in his comment on my article about the dangers of frost on…
USDAA Course Design Guidelines Document
21 Mar 2008
The USDAA just posted its course design guidelines document on its website. The news post is here . The PDF of the guidelines is…
Team Small Dog Blog: Small Fast Kick Yer Ass
15 Mar 2008
I just discovered Laura Hartwick's blog: Team Small Dog and all I can say is wow! Unlike other dog agility blogs that are mostly about…
Dana Pike Advanced Class Sequence - Weave Entries
06 Mar 2008
Don't pay strict attention to the dimensions in the diagram, they are rough estimates from my memory. Here's how you should set it up. The…
Serpentine Handling Techniques
15 Feb 2008
The Serpentine is a common obstacle sequence and there are many ways to handle it. I'll present the most common approaches and I've…
500+ Courses and 80 Drills
05 Feb 2008
The AAC Canadian World Team, going to the IFCS World Agility Championship in Belgium in May, has put together 7 PDFs containing over 500 AAC…
Do We Need to Change the Tire?
20 Jan 2008
In the past month there has been a lot of discussion on the AgilityDogs and USDAA SoundingBoard email lists about serious injuries to…
