Cowtown Dog Sports is proud to announce that we have been approved as a facility for VALOR trials! VALOR, the Virtual Agility League, and is designed to acknowledge the accomplishments of fearful, reactive, and highly distracted dogs. It can also serve as a starting point for dogs that may enter more traditional trial environments (i.e. as […]
We are excited to announce that Cowtown Dog Sports is adding more classes in June! This includes the addition of morning classes for those of you who can’t make it in the evenings! We will continue to teach our Foundation for Agility 1 and Agility 2 classes, but we are now requiring that students attend our Basic Obedience class […]
We had a lot of fun running this course last week! Obstacles 2-4 could easily be run as threadles.
This advanced course is relatively short, but still has quite a few challenges in it. For baby dogs, the tunnel at 13 can be added between 8 and 9.
With all the focus on international handling lately, I thought I’d throw out a set of short exercises using 4 jumps with the idea of seeing how different people would handle these. Would love to see some video! NOTE: It is highly recommended that you substitute wing jumps in place of the wingless ones depicted […]
Below is a course we recently ran at Cowtown Dog Sports in a private lesson. It can be made easier for Novice dogs by skipping 4-6 although we still found it a bit challenging for them.
For several months, students have been asking me about how to build agility jumps to use for practicing at home. We decided it would be fun to have a workshop on how to build jumps. The workshop was only open to students of Cowtown Dog Sports. The students had the option of building one or two […]
Teaching and education have long been highly valued in my family. Both my parents were college professors and I loved school so much that I spent a very long time there and left with a PhD in physics. I still love learning and am happiest when I am growing. As a dog agility instructor, […]
Recently a local ASCA club held a Senior Specialty class at a trial – a chance for us to honor our old agility dogs. I took my 14 year old beagle mix Zeener. The dogwalk and jump bars were lowered. The chute and teeter were available by choice and we each got the chance to […]
About a year ago, we moved to a new property west of Fort Worth, Texas with the goal of starting anew and creating a haven for me and the dogs to play. It has been quite the adventure. We have installed lighting, fencing, built agility equipment, and started teaching agility classes. In short, we’re creating […]