Agility Competition

Mirage at the Dauphin Dog Training Club Agility Trial, October 2001. He qualified with a clean run, and 11 seconds under Standard Course Time for a first place in 16" Novice A.

Roxie already has her Novice Agility title, and here she is completing the requirements for her Novice Jumpers with Weaves title at the Dauphin DTC Agility Trial in October 2001 at the Twin Brooks Horse Show grounds near Linglestown, PA.

Bailey already has his Novice Agility and Novice Jumpers with Weaves titles. He is getting up in years, so he'll likely not go on to Open Agility now. This picture was taken at the Dauphin DTC training center.

Bailey, Roxie, Mirage, and Melody loved to go to Camp Jackpot. It was held the third week of June near State College, PA for a few years. It had agility, obedience, lure coursing, rally, fly ball, seminars, and more. Pat and Roxie taught some lessons and took more lessons from experienced handlers.

Roxie is pictured here competing for the first time in Open agility. This is at the Newnan Kennel Club agility trials in Atlanta GA in January 2002. She qualified 1 of the 2 days there. This photo was taken by Pet Action Shots of Kennesaw, GA 770-425-0672.

Mirage competed in Novice agility at the Newnan Kennel Club agility trials in Atlanta. Unfortunately, he clipped a jump each day, so he did not earn any qualifying scores. He seemed to enjoy himself nonetheless. This photo was also taken by Pet Action Shots of Kennesaw, GA.

Roxie returned to the Dauphin Dog Training Club Agility Trials in Linglestown PA in April 2002 to complete her Open Agility title. This picture was taken by the very talented Ms Tien Tran of Burbank, California, and was featured prominently on her display at the Trials.

This picture of Mirage prancing from the tunnel was taken by another talented canine action photographer, Mr. Steve Surfman, phone 908-486-1741. This was taken at the Burlington County Kennel Club Agility Trials in Willingboro, NJ in April 2002.

Roxie earned her United Kennel Club AG1 title at the Belroi Obedience Training Center in Gloucester, VA. She is pictured barking her way through the hoop tunnel, which is unique to the United Kennel Club agility rules. This picture was taken by Patrick Cagney Photography of Bristol, TN.

This photo of Mirage was taken at the Belroi Obedience Training Center in Gloucester, VA. This was a United Kennel Club Agility Trial and Mirage is seen here going through the hoop tunnel, which is unique to UKC rules. The photo was taken by Patrick Cagney Photography of Bristol, TN.

This photo of Mirage was taken at the Dauphin Dog Training Club AKC Agility Trials in Linglestown, PA on October 25, 2003. He is competing in Open Jumpers with Weaves Preferred in this photo, but we didn't qualify this run. This picture was taken by the very talented Ms Tien Tran of Burbank, California. We are very grateful for another wonderful picture of our "kids" performing!

This photo of Mirage was taken at the Tail Blazers Agility Club of the Brandywine Valley agility trials near West Chester, PA on March 7, 2004. He entered the chute at a dead run, and the bulge moving through the fabric told me he would come out like a cannon shot. Fortunately, Steve Surfman (phone 908-486-1741) was ready and captured this wonderful shot! Does he look like he's having an absolute blast or what!

This photo of Mirage was taken at the All-Star Performance Dog Trials in York PA August 6 & 7, 2005. There was no preferred height runs offered in the tournament, so Mirage had to jump 16". With the runs as they were, we weren't able to compete with the Border Collies, but we put in some nice runs anyway. This photo is by Steve Surfman (phone 908-486-1741). He was hauling Shar-Pei tush in these runs!