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first AKC agility trial in three weeks with our 3 year old border collie aussie mix and the gap between "she runs the practice course clean at 32 seconds" and "what an actual trial is going to be like" is suddenly a lot wider than i thought and i need real owner perspective from people who have been on the other side of that first trial

Marlowe is our 3 year old border collie aussie mix, 42lb, female, we got her from a rescue at 4 months and started agility foundations at 14 months with a CPDT trainer who runs a small agility club...

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closing out my third season in AKC agility with our sheltie who finally titled MX and MXJ at the trial weekend and writing down what the foundation work actually looked like across the first eighteen months because the run reviews and trial reports dominate the sport content online and underweight the unsexy ground work that decided whether we ended up here or whether we plateaued in excellent like most of our novice cohort did

Saturn is a sheltie from a small working sport breeder in vermont and she is now four and a half and finally has the MX and MXJ titles next to her name after three seasons of trialing. i started her...

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eighteen month border collie heading into our first akc novice trial in eight weeks after a year of foundation training and i am losing my nerve about whether the trial readiness signals i was watching for actually mean what i thought they meant, looking for honest input from experienced competitors and judges

Rook is an 18 month old working line border collie from a sport bred litter, came to us at 9 weeks specifically with agility in mind, and we have been doing structured foundation work with a club...

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Getting started in agility?

My border collie has tons of energy and I think shed love agility. How do I get started? Are there classes for beginners? Can any dog do agility or is it breed-specific?

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