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Barrels…sigh

July 2, 2013 By Micki Leave a Comment

NADAC – Barrels will be mandatory in mid 2014. I really think that NADAC should be classified as something other than Dog Agility. Maybe just call it the “Extreme Games Challenge” and give up the “agility” segment. Somehow, I just can’t put my mind around pushing my dog around a barrel in a trial. Don’t get me wrong, I push my dogs around a lot of things when teaching certain behaviors… like… go around something for example :).

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