Dog Agility Sports – Obstacle Course Competitions

Dog agility is a sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy.  The handler can’t touch the dog or obstacles.  Only voice and hand commands are allowed.

A basic agility course is run on an area of apporoximately 100 by 100 feet and has numbered obstacles (tire, jumps, weave poles, a-frame, tunnels), laid out by an agility judge in a design of their own choosing.  The numbers represent the order in which the obstacles are to be completed.

Agility courses are made difficult enough that a dog could not complete them correctly without human direction.