AGILITY

Agility

Clarion Canine Obedience Club
AKC Licensed Obedience & Agility Club

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07/29/10

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The AKC states that the "purpose of Agility Trials is to afford owners the opportunity to demonstrate a dog's willingness to work with its handler under a variety of conditions." Titles that can be acquired are:

Novice Agility (NA)
Open Agility (OA)
Agility Excellent (AX)
Master Agility Excellent (MX)
Novice Jumpers With Weaves (NAJ)
Open Jumpers With Weaves (OAJ)
Excellent Jumpers With Weaves (AXJ)
Master Excellent Jumpers With Weaves (MXJ)

To be eligible to compete in AKC Agility trials, a dog must be:

Registered with the AKC
Listed with the AKC Purebred Alternative Listing/Indefinite Listing Privilege (PAL/ILP) program
Listed with the AKC Canine Partners program
Be a Foundation Stock Service (FSS) recorded breed
12 months of age or older

Agility is a sport for dogs that has excellent spectator appeal. The dogs go through a maze of obstacles in a pre-established order and compete for speed and accuracy.

There are only 2 participants on the agility course - a dog and his handler, who must become a team to succeed. It is important that the dog and handler have basic obedience experience before starting agility, as the dog is off-lead during the entire course. The handler may give as many commands or signals to his dog as he wants, but he may not touch his dog or the obstacles.

Training classes for members are held at the CCOC Training Facility in Knox on Wednesday and Friday evenings throughout the year for CCOC members. Registration (sign up) is required to participate.

The course consists of many different obstacles.
In the foreground is a closed tunnel -
the dog cannot see through because of the collapsed material at the end of the tunnel.

The seesaw is one of the most difficult obstacles.
The dog must not jump off the seesaw, but rather carefully tilt it and walk down the other side.

Becca carefully executes the seesaw encouraged by Patti.

Patti "spots" while Kermit negotiates the down-side.

Barbara helps "Zippity Zach"
(not quite heavy enough to tip it!)

PJ jumps through the tire.
An A-frame shows in the background.

An Aussie goes over the A-Frame.

Yoko flies through the tire, heading for the bar jump in the foreground.
Kate follows in hot pursuit!

PJ takes the bar jump with ease.

Becca waits on the pause table for the release signal.

Zach goes over the dog walk.

Zack going over the "wing jump."

Morgan, a Doberman, negotiates the Weave Poles with Barb's guidance.
Other pieces of agility equipment - jumps, chute from closed tunnel, and a contact obstacle - can also be seen in the photo.

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