Agility is a dog sport performed all over the world by many different owners with their dogs. Dogs do not have to be pure bred and the owners can be any age. Different obstacles are set up on a course and the handler has to guide their dogs over them using verbal commands and hand signals. It takes a strong partnership between dog and human to do a whole course. A lot of coordination between the two. The dog has to be obedient and well trained and able to listen to your instructions. You are a team. The better the dog is trained, the less running the handler has to do. There are several different levels of competition. There are minimum obstacle requirements for each course but the course will be set up different at each trial. There are several different venues. The most popular being AKC , NADAC, CPE, USDAA. We compete in each.

Dallas & Jeep train at Kilmoreen Canine Training Center but we also have some obstacles at home. We plan on starting Agility competition in 2003.

All of the photos of Dallas were taken during competition by professional photographers. The photos of Jeep were taken by myself during training sessions.

Jeep on the A-Frame

Tire Jump - Jeep

Dallas "on the line"

Weave Poles - Jeep

Dallas doing the Weave Poles. The mud was very deep but she didn't let that stop her.

Jeep on the Dog Walk

Dallas on the Dog Walk

Dallas on the See-Saw. Check out the MUD. It poured all weekend.

See-Saw - Jeep

Dallas coming out of the Barrel Chute

Bar Jump - Dallas

Dallas through the Tire Jump at Agility Nationals

NOTE: July 2003. Dallas has already earned several agility titles this year in AKC and CPE. Jeep had 2 qualifying CPE runs with 2nd places his first time out on July 4th.

Thornapple Hill Chinese Shar-Pei
Home of the Super-Pei

Janet & Ben Saporito
Taylor Hill Rd., Box 202, Edmeston, NY 13335
(607) 965-9863