Great thread & good suggestions. I'd like to sign up my 19 pound terrier for flyball this fall. I'm not sure how he'll do but I figure we (or rather he) can try it. After the course, if he doesn't seem to like it, we'll just go onto something else. I'd like to get him into Earthdogging (I think that's what it's called). However, I've read it has to do with a rat being held in a cage and the dogs digging a hole (or running into a hole) to get at the cagged rat. I think it would be pretty inhumane to put the rat through all that terror (even though I'm not a big fan of rats). That's why flyball sounds better.