You spoke the magic words or I guess it would be typed the magic words. I love agility and so do the dogs...well Winter's slowly starting to love it.

I've only been competing for about a year and training for a year and half but my dogs and I have come a long way in that short time. It's like the perfect addiction though because you get to spend time with you dogs doing something you both like and it has to be one of the only sports were the people you are competing against want you to succeed.

Smudge my lab cross is my first agility dog and he has the first leg of his Nadac Novice Jumpers title, I'm hoping to maybe finish that one off sometime this summer but Smudge has some issues still and sometimes his issues decide to show up at trials so I just take it day to day with him. But this weekend him and I are in a USDAA trial, seriously hoping to do well in it. Winter my border collie is just going to be starting next weekend in trials but I'm going to ease her into it because I still have some things that I need to work on with her...namely control (she has to figure out that I start the team and not her, and that we go at my pace not hers) jumps, and weaves...that would be why for the first trial all she's doing is a tunnelers course and touch N'go so things that I know she can do.

Oh and Dogz, you don't have to have a border collie to do agility in fact I would say don't get a border collie to do agility, they make the sport to easy and take away the fun of it...some of the best times I've had with Smudge is when him and I are running side by side on a course...please note this is coming from someone who owns a border collie.