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Day Parking
Most agility show organisers
put a lot of time and thought into working out the layout of their show.
They assess the risks of moving traffic and do their best to make the
showground as safe a place as possible. It's an agility issue as well.
Why are there always some people who take advantage of a good thing?
asks Christine Short |
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Ring Etiquette
Rules of etiquette control the behaviour of
particular social groups or social occasions and the agility circuit is no exception.
(08/05/05) |
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Ring Party Jobs
There's fear of
flying, fear of falling and fear of failure but are agility people developing a new fear - fear
of ring parties. Is it because they think it is someone else's job, are too stressed to help,
have too many dogs to run or just don't understand what's involved? We asked the Agility
Whisperer to pontificate... (14/05/10) |
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Ring
Party Procedure Manual
The Cornwall AC Ring Party Procedure Manual was put this together a
while back, after the Committee heard that some competitors were 'too scared' to
offer to help at shows as they simply did not know what was involved. Some of it
will be specific to CAC but a lot of it applies to most shows, regardless of
whether operating on a manual system or an electronic system. Thank you
to Kim Lawer and the CAC Committee for sharing their new, updated
version. Hope it helps! |
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Ring Partying
To celebrate all the people who
help make an agility show happen, the Scottish Kennel Club Agility held
a photo competition for all helpers and ring parties at their August
Show.
Here are some of the entries. Can you suggest some captions… |
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Ring Rage
Chris Smith is a mild mannered person, not given to tantrums
and rages. Aside from the odd moment she may simmer but she rarely boils over - with one
exception... (05/09/02) |
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Show Ground Reviews
Given it's in everybody’s interest to have
decent ground to run on, why do some clubs persist in treating this criterion as a
negligible one? Agility handler Groundhog, who prefers to remain anonymous, reviews the
running surfaces of some of the venues they've run on this year. |
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Zero
Aggression
Dawn Weaver created the current FAB venue with dogs' mental
welfare and their physical safety as a top priority. She was concerned
that the current sport of agility can be toxic for dogs. Aggression
abounds around shows. She recognised that often there is no choice in
the shows that we attend in our areas and was determined that her new
venue would be different so she carefully put together Freewways Meadow
showground with agility in mind. |
