Cross Breeds

What is your favorite dog sport (LIST OF THEM ALL INCLUDED HERE)?

* Agility * Bikejoring * Canicross * Carting * Competition obedience * Conformation showing * Catchball (A variation on Flyball) * Disc dog * Dock Jumping * Dog hiking, Pack Hiking * Dog scootering * Earthdog trials * Field trials * Flyball * French Ring Sport * Frisbee * Greyhound racing * Hare coursing * Herding or Stock Dog * Hunting * Hound Trailing * Junior Showmanship * Lure coursing * Mushing, Dog mushing * Musical canine freestyle; Canine Dressage; Heelwork to Music * Obedience training * Protection sports (including Schutzhund and French Ring Sport) * Pulka * Racing * Rally obedience * Retrieving trials * Scent hurdling * Scootering * Schutzhund * Sheepdog trials (or Herding) * Sighthound racing (including Greyhound racing, coursing, and lure coursing) * Skijoring * Sled dog racing * Tracking trials * Water rescue * Weight pulling * Weiner Racing (i.e. racing Dachshunds) Which is your favorite and (don't forget)--> why? Do you and your dog(s) do this sport or plan too? What got you to like and or enter this sport? What breed of dog do you have? Is he/she good at this sport(Beginner, Intermediate, expert?) Thank you. :-)

Public Comments

1. weight pulling and schutzhund
2. Flyball. Fox terriers.
3. frisbee.
4. Favs; agility, disc dog, catchball, herding, conf. showing, Musical canine freestyle, sled dog and wiener racing=I enjoy watching and or want my dogs to participate and Dachshund racing is pretty fun. I plan to have my Border Collie Lab mix do;agility, disc dog/frisbee or flyball/catchball, and herding. Would like to have my Pom mix do Musical canine freestyle.
5. I don't consider conforamtion a "sport". I don't consider REAL test/trials as "sports". "Pwaying games wif doggies" may be "sports"-I don't bother w/games. *&*.........you've left off several competitive events for dogs. I've titled dogs in conformation,& performance *&* in the field. I do quality AKC reg.terriers,capable of "bench& field".
6. I love to watch dogs working; either instinctually or working as a "team" with their human. A couple you referred to I am unfamiliar with: scootering, pulka, canicross. I too, do not consider "conformation" nor "junior showmanship" an actual "sport". I have competed in obedience decades ago, some AKC and AHBA "pre-herding" and agility. For the breeds I prefer and suit me best, my favorite sports are agility and herding. I have always gotten chills watching sheepdogs work; their instinct, intensity and stealth. The first time I saw agility I was simply blown away with the "teamwork", the communication and bond between the handler and dog at top speed. I am currently competing in agility with my 2nd agility dog. I train agility students as well. My first agility dog was a Sheltie, my soulmate, who earned his championship in 3 agility organizations. My current little Border Collie is competing in Excellent and Masters levels and yes, she is very quick, very awesome and tons of fun! We just did a trial this weekend and she qualified 3 out of runs with two 1st placements and a 3rd placement. The one we did not Q in, well, my mind has trouble keeping up with her and I was late on a "cue"! I try to get Wren out for herding lessons when I can financially, and marvel at her instinct. I would probably be just as happy doing herding as I am agility but....I can and do have agility equipment, can not have sheep! I find obedience competition, for me, too rigid, too slow and too dry. Dogs have a great time in flyball, but the frenzied barking is too chaotic and nerve wracking to me. Frisbee, while very entertaining, fun to watch, and some incredible choreography and training involved, worries me about the physical strain on the dogs so I do not play frisbee with my dogs.