Dog Health Questions: Dog Training/Competition Question?

What are all of the different kinds of dog training competitions you can enter your dog in? (ex. Obedience Competition, Agility Competition, etc.) Thanks!

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You own a mixed breed dog, so that immediately excludes almost all AKC competition. AKC limits participation to purebred, registered dogs, with the sole exception of their Canine Good Citizen program, which is open to all dogs but does not confer an official AKC title, only a certificate certifying to the dog's temperament and behavior.
http://www.akc.org/events/cgc/

There are a few other organizations that allow mixed breeds to compete for titles.
http://www.mbdca.org/
Mixed Breed Dog Clubs of America offers titling in Obedience and a few other venues, but has show giving chapters in only 4 states. CA, WA, OR, MO/IL (St Louis area)

http://www.ukcdogs.com/WebSite.nsf/WebPa…
United Kennel Club offers competition in Agility and obedience for mixed breeds.

http://www.k9web.com/dog-faqs/activities…
A list of organizations that offer obedience competition for mixed breeds.

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• What is a breed specialtie? It is a show where only 1 breed of dog is shown in conformation.
  A group specialtie is a show where only dogs from that group are show. IE-a toy group specialtie would only have toy poodles,pekingese,affenpinschers,chihuah… and all the other breeds for the toy group.
  
  All breed-
  All breed conformation
  obedience
  agility
  flyball
  rally-o
  tracking
  canine freestyle
  skiijoring(if dog is big enough)
  dock diving
  
  Herding-
  Herding group specialties
  herding instinct test
  herding trial
  herding breed specialties
  
  Toy-
  Toy group and breed specialties
  
  Terrier-
  earthdog testing
  earthdog trials
  terrier breed and group specialties
  
  Hound-
  lure-coursing
  Hound breed and group specialties
  
  Sporting-
  gun dog
  dock diving
  field trials
  sporting breed and group specialties
  
  working-
  drafting
  sled pulling
  schutzhund
  working breed and group specialties
  
  non-sporting-
  breed and group specialties
  
  Goldendoodles can only be shown in UKC obedience IF the are spayed/nutered


• Really there are too many to list, and new ones are being added/invented all the time. I'll give it a go, but I'm sure I'll miss several that I am less familiar with.
  
  Probably the most well known and most widely available sports include Obedience, Rally obedience, agility, flyball, herding, tracking, shutzhund, field trials (ie retrieving for retrievers, pointing for bird dogs, etc), earth dog, dock diving, and lure coursing.
  
  Less well known but growing in popularity include French ring sport, carting, driving (similar to carting but the dog pulls a person instead of an inanimate load), sledding, weight pull, skijoring, bikejoring, cani-cross, canine freestyle (dancing with your dog), backpacking, and messenger dog trials (not very common here in the US but growing in popularity in many European countries).


• there are so many to list here. But say if you go look under AKC, there are obedience, Agility, Field Trial, and so on. If you go out side of AKC, especially for working breed, there are Schutzhund, French Ring Sport, Street Ring, KNPV, ... tons more.


• Enjoy
  http://www.akc.org/events/index.cfm?nav_…


• dogs really love fly ball