Like a number of agility handlers, Wirth, 34, took up the sport simply because he had a very energetic dog that needed more stimulating activity than walks and fetch. Five years later, he and Welly ...

They have to run a convoluted obstacle course in front of a crowd. They have to have enough focus to avoid wrong turns, enough precision to ensure their feet touch certain spots and enough speed to ...

Some were big, some little. Tall or small, all different breeds, the 78 dogs gathered at McGee Park for the Durango Agility Dog Club Trials this weekend all shared one common trait: a readily apparent ...

Your dog doesn’t have to be a border collie to compete in agility. In fact, as the western half of the Dogs On Course in North America (DOCNA) National Dog Agility Championships convenes in Carbondale ...

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It’s time for the 150th annual Westminster Dog Show. The prestigious canine event kicked off on Jan. 31 with the finals of ...

NEW ULM, Minn. -- Joni Steinbach chuckled when asked if she thought her border collie Sport knows she's one of the best agility dogs in the country. "No, she doesn't know," said Steinbach of New Ulm. ...

Dog agility is a sport with more than 100,000 competition runs in Finland every year. According to a study encompassing 850 competing dogs carried out at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University ...

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Jan. 8—When Piper Chapman is competing, she darts through obstacles, makes sharp cuts and displays elite quickness. She also barks. Piper, a 12-year-old Shetland sheepdog, was one among the ...