# Any competitive dog obedience folk here?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 23, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-competitive-dog-obedience-folk-here/679519 "2014-01-23T12:08:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-competitive-dog-obedience-folk-here/679519/1 "2014-01-23T12:08:38Z")

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I’d love to pick your brains a bit if I may. My Labby girl has just completed her CD and I’m aiming now for Open, but this is new training territory for me. The club I’m with is more basic pet obedience, Agility, and Rally focused though I gather there’s an upper level obed group in the works.

Anyone?

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**Author:** ![Inter\_Alia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@Inter\_Alia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inter_Alia)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-competitive-dog-obedience-folk-here/679519/2 "2014-01-23T15:07:16Z")

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Me! Although I don’t have the time or money to be very serious about it. Lucy, my Jack Russell Terror, has her CGC, one leg in Beginner Novice, and her Rally Novice title. Agility in the ring has been kind of a disaster. I don’t know if I can be of much help, but feel free to pick my tiny brain.

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-competitive-dog-obedience-folk-here/679519/3 "2014-01-23T17:38:34Z")

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We’re not competitive, but we have put our Labs through obedience, agility, and focus training.

Last weekend, to help alleviate their cabin fever, we rented the doggie gym where they do their agility training, spent an hour putting them through their paces on the various jumps, ramps, tunnels, etc. They loved it!

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**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-competitive-dog-obedience-folk-here/679519/4 "2014-01-23T17:59:36Z")

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I did a CD with my dog, but haven’t gotten around to doing more with him, though did start to train for it.

Better than classes for me, was privates with a coach who kicked butt in the ring. My biggest issue with training is not getting the dog to do stuff, it’s me and how I handle. Learned a lot of really small things, like footwork, that made a big difference. Now if only I could pull off those 199 scores like she can.

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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-competitive-dog-obedience-folk-here/679519/5 "2014-01-24T02:46:13Z")

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I used to, haven’t competed in many years. I had a Gordion Setter, Fancy, who had 2 legs toward her CDX but tore a ligament and the vet recommended that she not jump any more, so we had to stop before finishing her title.

I miss competing…