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Take Your Dog to Work Day!

AgilityFusion — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:28:26 +0000

Today is bring your dog to work day! Hershey is always with us at work – today she’s helping in packaging to get everyone’s orders out to the UPS man when he comes! (he brings her biscuits!) Share your pictures of your dog at work (or at home) with us on Facebook, or email them to me at brittany @ affordableagility. com – I’ll add the emailed ones to this post as I get them! (You can send them ‘late’ if you like, I’ll get them up on Monday!)

Everyone enjoy their day at work, at play, and at home!

September Contest

AgilityFusion — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:30:32 +0000

Last months’ contests was one of the best ones ever- so many great stories! Read through the comments here, it’s a great read!

This month is Responsible Dog Ownership month, and our contest is about agility dog ownership!

What breed(s) of dog do you have?
Where’d you get them? A breeder, a rescue, they found you?
How much time do you spend training them?
If you could only have one obstacle to work with, what would it be?

You could win a treat and ball bag, perfect for walks, agility, or working inside. Keep your treats secure, and your pockets clean!

The winner will be chosen via random number generator on or around October 1st, and announced/emailed on or around the same.

How to enter this contest:

If you have never done so before, you must first register your email address on this blog. We will then notify you if you are a winner of this contest. You only need to do this once, and you will be good for all future monthly contests (and get priority notification of when they occur)!

Scroll to the bottom of this page and enter your comment/answer. Or, if there is no box, click on the “comments” in the upper right corner.

May Winner!

AgilityFusion — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:00:41 +0000

The Winner of the May Contest is number 16- Lucy! She won a Clix Whizzclick from Affordable Agility. Go check out the June contest for your chance to win this months’ prize!

Week 1: Agility Foundations Classes

AgilityFusion — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:19:43 +0000

Meet Quick!

Quick is a year old this month, and as promised, we’re ready to start agility! Our first class was on Monday and we had a blast! I’ll be blogging about it weekly, and sharing our journey with all of you.

It was a little difficult to explain that he doesn’t like having his collar grabbed from behind (my theory is that it pulls his hair and hurts) and that grabbing from the front or by the leash is just fine. We worked a little on shadow handling and surprised our instructor who thought that surely my obedience-trained dog wouldn’t be okay with the right side handling. He did fine with it, and was a very good boy. I had some difficulty with treating him quickly enough! I lack finger coordination I guess!

I was a little upset by another student, though. Their pup had no manners to speak of! He bounced around on the end of his leash, barking shrilly, and his owner seemed oblivious as they texted through the lesson. I’m wondering how that’s going to work out in the upcoming weeks!

Quick seemed to enjoy the restrained recalls more than anything else. He did his ‘bucking bronco’ trick where he kicks up his back legs in glee as he runs after me.

What advice do you wish you’d heard when you started doing agility?

Check out next week!