deafbat Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 When you trial w/ obedience, agility, etc, what associations/societies do you trial at/work with? the only ones I can find are the AKC and the UKC. Are there any others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipedream Farm Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Besides AKC and UKC in agility there is USDAA and NADAC. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb Scott Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Also in agility: JFF and CPE Obedience: also ASCA Barb S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSnappy Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 We trial with The AAC but we're in Canada. However, their competitions are open to US residents, as long as they are AAC members. Long way to go for you though, I imagine ... RDM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafbat Posted February 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 thanks for all the info, everyone. I'm hoping to eventually get into either obedience or agility w/ Ben, so I'm looking into it ahead of time. hopefully, as he gets stronger and healthier he'll become more active and less like the couch potato that he has been for the past couple of months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cholla1 Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 If you want to be active in agility shows, the best association for that would be the one that you can get to their shows. Here, for several hundreds of miles around, the AKC has been and is the only one, so that is the one I work with. I know that most here hate it beyond words because of what happened when they tried to work with the AKC as the breed club and were not listened to. If someone wants to work in any way with dogs and lived here, they would see that there is more to the AKC that this one battle over conformation and what happened with border collies. They do much good in so many other areas of the dog world, as our performance only club licensed by them can attest to. Some members of our club do attend other association's agililty shows when they are where there are any (one came back from the AKC national agility finals in California and competed there in some USDAA or NADAC ones and did very well), but that is too far away for most of us. It would be counterproductive for us to say that, because the AKC was started by conformation people and they still run it, all else they are doing today for dogs, that much is taking them slowly away from conformation being that important, is without worth. I know that no one here want's to hear that but since the original poster wanted information, that is what I have to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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