Western Australia is a pretty small agility community relatively speaking. There are maybe 95 to 100 handlers/trainers/competitors in the sport and a number of those run multiple dogs.  So a big entry for a trial for us would be around 390 runs. The biggest class is usually Masters Jumping, which has about 80 runs and …

Continue reading Open Letter to The West Australian Agility Community

I've taken the plunge and enrolled in some online agility classes. I've never had any in-built aversion to this way of learning but I have always possessed a healthy sense of cynicism about the veritable explosion of online classes that have hit the agility scene. This plus my definitely in-built aversion to deadlines and scarily …

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