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The AKC Agility World Team grabbed victory again at the 2009 FCI World Agility Championship games. The medium team won a silver medal with three clear runs while Border Collie Juice topped off her career with a silver medal in the individual events for large dogs.  Team captain Andy Hartman said he’s happy just to be [...]

Zippity the Border Collie lives for agility, said her human Denise Thomas. “She is really a talented dog physically,” Thomas said. “She’s a very graceful jumper.” Thomas said agility is in Zippity’s family – her brother and father competed in agility on the international level. The 5-year-old Border Collie was scheduled to tackle the courses [...]

Agility has taken Karen Holik all over the country and the world. “We’ve been to Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Mexico and Costa Rica, teaching agility,” Holik, 42, said as she rode in an RV with six dogs and her boyfriend.  This year, Holik also traveled to Wyoming, California and North Carolina to teach agility. During the [...]

Marcy Mantell and Wave are world champions, but they still have something to prove at the FCI 2009 Dog Agility World Championships. “It’s a different kind of pressure,” Mantell said. “We’re going back to defend our title from last year. We’re going to do the best we can. We’ve been working hard all year long [...]

Dogs are Jennifer Crank’s life. She grew up around her mother’s Collies, then showed interest in canines when she was 4 years old. When she was six, her parents switched to a smaller breed – Shelties – and Crank began working in obedience with the dogs. In high school she juggled dances and basketball games [...]

A furry partner’s separation anxiety thrust Melanie Del Villaggio into the agility world. Del Villaggio’s mixed-breed Tasselhoff was intelligent and well behaved but had that one quirk. So Del Villaggio brought Tasselhoff to obedience classes in the late 1990s to cure him. The duo attended an agility class and became hooked. The two started competing [...]

Paulette Swartzendruber finds agility a better workout than the gym. Agility is an activity humans can do with their dogs and is always interesting because the course changes often, she said. Unlike bowling where players take home a ball, agility participants go home with a furry companion they can take walks with. “Agility is great [...]

Focus likes to swim but otherwise wants to move as little as possible, said his handler, Geri Hernandez. “Off the course he’s a couch potato,” Hernandez, 49, said. “He acts like exercise is killing him except for when he doing agility.” Focus comes to life in the agility course. He bounds over jumps, scrambles onto [...]

Channan Fosty is making up for her childhood by participating in the 2009 AKC Agility World Team. Fosty, 35, couldn’t have a dog when she was living in Brantford, Canada because her parents forbid it. So as a child she would watch dog shows on television and yearn to be in them. When she grew older she  lived in [...]