Yeovil Agility Club

17/09/2024

Alice & Teddy had their first official clear round (2nd place) in competition at FAB on Sunday and he managed to wait on the start line in all his classes, which is huge for him- especially in such a distracting environment! Well done! 🤩👏🏻Foxy got 1st in both Steeplechase & Jumping at FAB on Sunday and Eevee got to do her first ever competition runs and thoroughly enjoyed herself, even if she was a bit wild! 🥰

06/09/2024

A message from Mary:

Thank you all for your kind comments and best wishes. The lilies are lovely and I will be able to select a wonderful perennial plant for the garden to remember all at Yeovil Agility Club. Keep working with your dogs they are a great credit to you all.

05/09/2024

Mixed steeplechase results:
(Advanced course members given 5 secs penalty!)

1st Gemma & Nessa 21.44 secs
2nd Alice & Teddy 23.14
3rd Rachel & Lily 27.21
4th Sophie & Phoebe 28.16
5th Julie & Pip 31.50
6th Sara & Cooper 32.98
7th Rosemary & Rolo 34.17
8th Shona & Mango 34.57
9th Elaine & Nacho 51.68
10th Laura & Roxy 1 min 6 secs
11th Mary & Bertie 1 min 30 secs
12th Lisa & Ruby 1 min 35 secs

05/09/2024

Advanced steeplechase results:

1st Mary & Bertie 23.26 secs
2nd Alice & Teddy 24.75
3rd Gemma & Nessa 26.92
4th Julie & Pip 28.50
5th Rachel & Lily 28.72
6th Sarah & Cooper 30.13
7th Sophie & Phoebe 30.20

05/09/2024

Beginners steeplechase results:

1st Shona & Mango 42.46 secs
2nd Rosemary & Rolo 46.43
3rd Elaine & Nacho 54.37
4th Lisa & Ruby 1 min 32 secs
5th Laura & Roxy 1 min 59 secs

05/09/2024

Thanks to everyone that attended the summer fun night.
It was a good chance to socialise and also to say a fond farewell to our instructor Mary who is retiring from the club.

Mary has been a club member for over 10yrs- helping to run the show displays, being a part of the committee and an instructor over the years.
Thank you for everything you have done for the club Mary and hopefully we’ll see you at some of our fun nights in the future and out competing.

03/09/2024

☀️SUMMER FUN NIGHT🎉
This Thursday we’re hosting our club’s summer fun night. This is in place of normal training and hoping to welcome back some members we have missed over the summer months. We will have steeplechase courses and tennis ball bobbing. If you can arrive at 6:30 to help set up, that would be brilliant. We do ask that everyone there is able to help pack away. The more people that help, the quicker it will be.

We are also unfortunately saying good-bye to one of our lovely instructors Mary. Please come and celebrate the brilliant things she has done for the club and thank her for her hard work over the years.

The Fun Night is in place of normal training, and only open to club members.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all🥰

26/08/2024

Our club has been out competing this bank holiday weekend🥳Some fantastic achievements!

🥇Nessa won both her agility and her jumping today putting her up to grade 3!

🥇Teasel won 2 of her classes!

🥈Lily got a 2nd in her jumping and a clear round in her agility.

Please let us know below your achievements!🥳

07/07/2024

DOG LUV SHOW

Thank you to everyone who came to have a go at the Dog Luv Show today🥰We really enjoyed meeting so many new people and dogs and we hope to see you soon🫶

A massive thank you to Julie, Mick and Elaine from YAC and Ruth, Hayley, Julian and Liz from for all of your help and support today🫶You all worked so hard and I really appreciate you sticking out the weather☔️We worked with the amazing team from Watercombe to be able to have a display showing the different ages and stages of agility, and we wanted to show you don’t need to have a collie to enjoy it!!

And thank you to all the team at Dog Luv for helping us get our equipment down there, helping set up and your support throughout the day🥰

05/07/2024

We are so excited to be running the have-a-go agility and display at Dog luv Boarding Kennels this Sunday🥰

We will be running the have-a-go agility all day (£2 per go) where you can try some simple agility with your dog. We will then also be doing a display at 1:30 to show our dogs skills. We will have some people from Watercombe Dogs helping us to show all levels of agility, from the very beginning to some grade 7 dogs💪

For members coming to help, details have been posted on Spond. Any questions, please get in contact!

23/06/2024

a HUGE congratulations to .vincent.56 and Teddy getting their first Jumping win at today🥳Alice and Teddy have been working so hard and have only recently started competing. they won their jumping, then went on to get a 3rd in the steeplechase as well as some lovely pieces in their agility run💪what incredible results for them! 🥳🏆⭐️

16/06/2024

Reminder that Sherborne Vale DTC competition entries close on Agilityplaza tomorrow!

11/06/2024

A post to show how well our members have done this weekend🥳Cooper competed at the Pawsability finals and got a clear round, he also won all 3 of his classes at the show🥳Teddy got a 4th in his steeplechase run as well🥰Bertie won his agility class on Sunday!⭐️And Nessa got her second win putting her up into grade 2🏆Let us know if anyone was competing and needs to be added❤️

29/05/2024

Best of luck to our members Sara and Cooper who are competing at the Pawsability Cup Finals tomorrow🥳❤️

25/05/2024

FAB KC show closes Monday

17/05/2024

Very valid points for those who are considering starting their competing journey this summer!☀️

For those of my students starting to compete- especially those who are scared things will go wrong: they will.

I can absolutely guarantee things will go wrong.

Everybody who has ever competed with dogs has experienced their dog stopping to toilet in the ring, running off with the toy and playing keep-away, not listening and instead doing zoomies around the ring, acting like they’ve never seen agility equipment before in their life and a million other scenarios that are totally embarrassing.

I promise that we’ve all been there.

At Bramble’s first ever show, I joked that we would get eliminated on the first jump. People laughed and told me it’s impossible. Lo and behold, as soon as I unclipped her lead, Bramble ran around the first hurdle and back jumped it. Elimination on the first jump.

I’ve been eliminated for dogs weeing/ pooing in the ring, going before the scrimer started me, accidentally leaving the wrong collars on my dogs, my dogs leaving the ring, them climbing on tunnels, taking the wrong course a hundred times over, me sending the dogs the wrong way because I’ve forgotten where I was meant to go… you name it, I’ve probably done it.

You just have to keep showing up. It gets easier. Bramble went four years before she got a clear round, and she has won at Crufts. Both you and your dogs will make mistakes, and that’s part of the learning process. Just go out there and have fun.

The first few shows, everything will probably go wrong. But I promise it’s worthwhile. Everyone has been a beginner, and although for some it was so long ago that they choose to forget what it’s like, we have all been there.

Just enjoy it, draw a line under mistakes and, above all, keep showing up! Have a great time!

14/05/2024

Best of luck to Karen Boardman and Robyn competing in team GB at the World Agility open in The Netherlands! Hope you have an amazing time!

https://www.facebook.com/WorldAgilityOpen

The FitPaws WAO is an annual World Dog Agility Championship held in May each year

02/05/2024

We are excited to be running another have-a-go at the Dog Luv Kennels Family Fun Dog Show. We are excited to meet new faces and welcome them to try agility.

Support of our members is always welcome. If you can spare an hour or so on this date to help able to help run the have-a-go, or show what we do in our displays it would be appreciated! Please talk to one of the committee for more info🥰

Exciting News we are holding another Family Fun Dog Show.
We hope to see you all on the Sunday 7th July .🐾🐾🐾🐾

28/04/2024

The YAC Committee had a fun morning learning from Ruth at ! We went to Ruth to be able to develop our skills in teaching things like foundation games, building drive and developing handling skills. As a committee, we try to make sure that we are providing the best we can for our members. We are super excited to bring these ideas and games and ideas back to the club🥰Thank you Ruth for an amazing morning!

25/04/2024

Good luck to our members Claire and Link who are off on Monday to compete in the IFCS World Championships!!!! We are SO proud of them, Claire has been a member of YAC for years and it’s obvious how much dedication and hard work has gone into all of her dogs. We couldn’t let them go without getting them some goodies for their travels! Good luck you two, we’ll be cheering you on the whole way!!🇬🇧🇫🇷💚

18/04/2024

Pip had his 4th birthday yesterday🥹He came to YAC tonight to celebrate with his friends, and go on his favourite equipment; the contacts. Happy Birthday Pip, we love you!🥰

13/04/2024

Entries for Blackdown Agility comp in May closes on Monday. Club member Rachel Coman will be judging on the Saturday and it would be great to have some people from club to help out on her ring even if you’re not competing. Let us know if you want more info on entering or helping out.

04/04/2024

Thank you to our resident KC judge Rachel for designing the lovely course!

Steeplechase results:

1st Caroline & Gem 25.85 secs
2nd Shannon & Floss 26.40
3rd Gemma & Nessa 26.83
4th Rachel & Lily 28.74
5th Henry & Foxy 33.27
6th Carolyn & Teasel 33.53
7th Mick & Freddie 33.62
8th Oscar & Foxy 37.73
9th Sara & Cooper 42.23
10th Bex & El 50.21
11th Pam & Misty 1 min 7sec

04/04/2024

Easter fun night, thank you everyone that came! There was more than one dog, they were just all back in their cars by this point!

Egg & spoon race:
1st Gemma & Ness
2nd Bek & El
3rd Carolyn & Teasel
4th Sophie & Phoebe
5th Caroline & Gem
6th Sarah & Cooper
7th Gill & Teasel
8th Shannon & Floss
9th Mick & Freddie
10th Henry & Foxy
11th Oscar & Eevee

01/04/2024

🐣EASTER FUN NIGHT🌟

In place of normal training this week, we’ve got our Easter Fun Night for our members🥳Steeplechase courses, egg and spoon race and lots of festive fun!🐣🌟