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i threw an EIGHTY ONE YARD SEEDING THROW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#243 FEET!!!!!!!! #honestly i would've ended the weekend happy with just that throw alone i just #Holy Shit #mind blown #to put it in perspective: this was with light plastic and the record for this venue in women's is 93 yards #thats only 12 yards off????????? of the record??? #also: the record was set my my club member this weekend im so happy for her it was so cool to see omg #personal #to think also that i started disc three years ago unable to throw more than 30 yards i just. wowee

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this dog would NOT catch all weekend and still managed to snag a second place & longest catch (70 yards) on Saturday. on Sunday, she caught ONE SINGLE FRISBEE and somehow managed to get another second in Skyhoundz XD.

i think i probably threw 30-40 discs this weekend and she caught 6. 5 of them were in one day. incredible. but i am so absurdly proud of this dog and her ability to be off her game and still place.

#she keeps me humble #they were SUCH GOOD THROWS TOO NETTLE WHY!!!!!! #disc #nettle #I don’t have a picture with the Skyhoundz award bc I left and got home at like 11 and immediately passed out

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camping weekend

#nettle #finch

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the drama of it all

#ft. archy yelling at nettle for doing nettle things (taking his stick) #(it was his he would like it back please & thank you) #(even though he left it on the ground and had another stick it wasn't His Stick) #archy #nettle

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Kismet and her Groenendael brother Loki

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ive been on the dog sport grind for a hot minute over the last few weeks. this was from the aaron robbins seminar we had right before UPDIF in which we had baby’s first full lane 🥹

#i also got told that my dog is old (for starting flyball) and we had to take that into consideration when doing foundation work which. #wouchie #i will be thinking abt that for the next forever #but i am. SO EXCITED!!! #flyball #video #dog sports

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UPDIF dump from the last week in Kentucky ❤️ what an amazing event

#probably would’ve podiumed if nettle caught that last disc in throw n go….. #definitely would’ve podiumed if i didn’t shank THREE of my far out throws #me 🤝 nettle choking in the only games we actually stand a chance in #it was so much fun though ugh……. loved it #disc #sports

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I feel like I'm walking into a trap, but... What does Updif mean?

it’s a disc competition - UpDog International Finals!

#asks #and it was Very Wet #at least for the first few days #windy af yesterday #today is supposed to be nice!

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cookie queen

#can’t throw but w/e #nettle

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she’s Ready

#make no mistake it took me like. 2 minutes to even get her to try and sit pretty #nettle

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made it to kentucky where it is HOT

#until it started raining at least #but uhhhhhh dogs & I aren’t used to 80s rn LMAO and u can tell #finch

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it’s Bitty puppy Time

#baby neph was SO CUTE. unreal

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i got my UPDIF stickers in just in time and they are just! so cool!

#i wanted holographic so badly ugh #personal

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everyone is clean now 👍

#I do not have a post-dry pic of nettle #unfortunate 😔 #nettle #finch #neph

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brigade of belgians. a gaggle of groenendael

#neph #nettle #finch #my dogs #I stole neph so i could give him a bath while his owner is working

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Do you have any tips for getting into dog sports? I've got an 8-month-old dalmatian/gsd/pit mix (my absolute best friend and also the bane of my existence, teenagers are a menace lol) who's crazy smart and athletic. The stuff you do with your pups looks awesome and I think we'd both really enjoy it! I'm just not sure where to start to look for clubs/events/etc. Any advice is appreciated!

Dog sports are one of those things where you either just happen to accidentally fall into it or you fight tooth and nail to find a place.

Some of the best ways to find places are to reach out to trainers/competitors in your area or close to you (FB and instagram are the easiest for this imo - if you have found any!). The rest depends on the sports you want to do and where you're located. A good way to try and find more sports would be to see if there are any in your area: google your city + "dog training club" or the sport you're looking for. See if any places offer classes (classes are a GREAT way to get started and test the waters!). Or look for events in your area and go watch! I wouldn't recommend trying to volunteer my first time watching an event, but it's a great place to get started and look for people who might know more people in your area that could help you. Most people are nice and like helping newbies out, but there are always some bad eggs in the pot!

Unfortuently, I'm not super great at finding non-American events, so I apologize if you aren't in the US! But if you are, there are a couple websites that you can check out. For AKC sanctioned events (FastCAT/AKC agility/Rally-O/Confo/etc), AKC has an event calendar.

For things like disc, you can check out UpDog's event page, Skyhoundz event page, USDDN (international), UFO (international), Quadruped, or AWI.

Agility has a couple besides AKC: UKI, CPE, NADAC, and USDAA.

Dock has a few with the main one being NADD and Ultimate Air Dogs.

For flyball, UFLI has a tournament list page. NAFA also does tournaments but I only do UFLI and NAFA's website looks like hasn't been updated since, like, the 90s.

There are other sports, like bitesports (PSA/IGP/Mondio/French Ring) or racing (AOK9, etc) but I know nothing about the racing world and bitesports are one of those sports (much like Flyball tbh) where you'd need to reach out to a club first because a club will make or break a dog.

I got into agility back in like, 2019 or something because I took classes from a local facility and went to some AKC events and asked around. I got into PSA because I googled "bitesports [city]" and found the closest club was an hour a half, so I emailed them. And then made that drive every weekend for 10 or so months haha (I put so many miles on my car). Moved to Wisconsin and reached out to a disc club local to me asking for a private lesson in disc on Facebook, ended up accidentally getting invited to play Toss & Fetch and my disc obsession spiraled from there. Ended up getting into flyball because I made friends with a lot of flyball people at disc. Everything else I've tried (like barn hunt/herding/etc) was a combination of looking on the AKC event page and going "I can do that", a friend going "you can do this, come to X event", or me frantically googling locations or sports or classes or private lessons.

When I first started out, I struggled a LOT. In Texas, there were quite a few places and clubs around me, but I only had about three months of that before I moved to Arkansas, which was a dog sport dead zone. I didn't have the connections or knowledge to even know where to look to get access to those places. It took me months to find the one single place where I could rent an agility field. I spent most of my time throwing a frisbee in a park not even knowing that disc was a dog sport I could compete in. Luckily, where I am now is pretty dominated by the sports I love and I've made a lot of really amazing connections which helps with knowing the who's/what's/how's of everything!

Good luck and I hope this helps!

#if you are local to me feel free to reach out too and I can help more! #or if you need help in a specific sport - i know a Lot of disc clubs and people and quite a few flyball ones now too

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pre-seminar/UPDIF bath time 🧼

#finch #they are Clean #im gonna steal neph tomorrow and clean him too