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Dog Sports and Activities

  • (B)-Specific Breeds only
  • (AB)-All breed
  • (MB)-Mixed Breeds Allowed


For most sports and activities, the breed club for your pure bred dog has separate events, or more specific ones, with competition just amoungst that breed.

Contents

Obedience

Rally

Classic Competition Obedience

Shutzhund Obedience

Companion Obedience/ Temperament

Canine Good Citizen

Temperament Testing – the statistics are interesting on breed temperament

Agility


Flyball

Frisbee

Freestyle

Tracking

Shutzhund Tracking

Search and Rescue

  • NASR (AB, MB) www.nasar.org/

Other Traacking

  • Deer Search (when hunters don’t get a clean shot)
  • Agricultural Pest and Termite Detection
  • Drug Detection
  • Arson
  • Cadaver Search
  • Cancer Detection

Carting and Draft

Mushing

Carting

Driving

  • Rottweiler

Skijoring/PULK

Scootering

Weight Pull

Backpacking

Parade

Herding

Hunting Skills

Duck (Retrieving)

Upland Birds (Pointing)

Upland Birds (Flushing)

  • UKC

Racoon

Squirrel

Boar/Big Game

Rabbit

Fox

Lure Coursing

Sighthound

Terrier

Earthdog/Go to Ground

Personal Protection

Schutzhund

Ring Sport

Mondioring

Coaching/Roadtrialing

Dalmation

Water Rescue and Retrieving

Therapy

Service Dog

Livestock Guardian Dog

Movie Acting

Message Running (Wartime/Emergency Skills)

Conformation

  • 1. AKC
  • 2. UKC
  • 3. NCA
  • 4. CKC
  • 5. ARBA
  • 6. NKC
  • 7. CKC
  • 8. FCI

Assistance/Service Dog Web Sites

General

Vision

  • Guide Dogs of America
  • GDF-GRADS info for blind people who are deciding on a guide dog school
  • Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc.
  • Guiding Eyes For The Blind
  • The Seeing Eye, America's first guide dog school.
  • Guide Dog Foundation, Second Sight Inc..
  • FAQs about raising puppies to be guide dogs.

Hearing

  • Dogs for the Deaf
  • Hearingdogs email list

Seizure

  • PAWS with a Cause Seizure Response Dogs
  • Canine Partners for Life provides Seizure Alert Dogs

Training

Information Directories

  • Assistance Dog Providers in the United States, by Carla Stiverson & Norm Pritchett.
  • Service Dog FAQs
  • Guide Dog and Assistance Dog FAQs
  • Guide Dog FAQs
  • Dr. Plonky's Assistance Dog Directory
  • Assistance Dog Information Page
  • lists Service Dog, Hearing Dog, and Guide Dog information directories.
  • Professor Hunt's Service and Therapy Dogs focuses primarily on therapy dogs.

Organizations

  • Canine Companions for Independence (CCI)
  • The Delta Society Home Page - Companion Animals Enriching Our Lives."
  • International Association of Assistance Dog Partners
    • non-profit, cross-disability organization: guide, hearing and service dogs.
  • PAWS With a Cause
    • trains Assistance Dogs nationally for people with disabilities

  • Sledding/Pulling/Skijoring
  • Sledding, Pulling and Skijoring Department
  • Working Dog bookstore has titles relevant to sport and breed enthusiasts.
  • Sledding and Pulling. Working Dogs Article Archives articles
  • Sled Dog Central articles about sledding and related resources.
  • Mushing Magazine for the sled sport enthusiast
  • International Federation of Sled Dog Sports web site
  • International Weight Pulling Association history and membership information.
  • Iditarod Updates site has articles about sledding and sledding breeds.
  • Mushing, the Magazine of Dog-powered Sports
  • Mush with P.R.I.D.E. publishes sled dog care guidelines.
  • Official Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race home page.
  • Alaska Sled Dogs web site
  • Anchorage Daily News Iditarod page
  • Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
  • 1996 Iditarod, Race Headquarters for the last great race on earth.
  • North Star Sled Dog Club promotes sled dog sports in the upper midwest.
  • Alaska Dog Mushers Association perpetuates the sport of sled dog racing in Alaska.

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