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I want to feed my Shetland Sheepdog puppy a healthy diet. What’s the best dog food for her?

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nancy Kleinhans has traveled the world with her Sheltie teammates Joani and Jimmy Dean. Joanie, now 10 and in a somewhat retired status, has been on the US/AKC World Team twice and the US/USDAA World Team once where she finished 3rd in the world. The younger Jimmy Dean, 7,  has been on the US/USDAA World Team once and [...]

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 [...]

“I’m addicted to agility,” Conn said. “I love it. I love the friendship and the relationship with the dogs.”

Dog agility is not just about a dog’s ability to race through an obstacle course; it’s also about the canine’s willingness to work with his handler, said Andy Hartman, captain for the 2009 AKC Agility World Team. “It’s about teamwork between handler and dog,” said Hartman, who is also American Kennel Club director of agility. This [...]

Although they look like miniature Collies, Shetland Sheepdogs are in fact a separate breed. Easy to train, they are great with children and make popular family pets.