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Here is a loooong set of faqs ... Lots of fun!




So good Julie, many thanks, ahead of anything I had hoped for. The good and the bad: no wonder our dogs are anticipating corners: 5 acres is more realistic than our half-acre or less circuits. The dogs: only a handful of true sight hounds take part here aside from the Ridgebacks. (I used to breed Basenjis, too late, should have kept them on). Dogs running here include every breed from little white fluffies through to Pitbulls, cattle dogs, shepherds of all kinds, dobermans and rotties. If we go the formal competition route, most of us will then be ineligible. Looks like we'll just be a recreational sport for a long time to come. Our dogs all get extremely obsessive and intense, but that must be up a few notches in the US with the reluctance to accept children at a meet - ours abound with little kids and little dogs without any real drama.

Thanks again for the link, I will share it on our pet forums, it is great to have some background to put what we are doing into a bit more context.

Separately, your website is lovely, the horse photos beautiful, are they all yours (?the foal) - and the large black Agility dog: is that a Black Russian (or not). We have just a few here in the showring, they have not made it into dogsports yet, not many around. Great shot.

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