All Star Dog Sports

09/16/2024

For sale by silent auction: the A-Frame and Dogwalk previously used at All Star Dog Sports. All-aluminum with rubberized, alucubond skins originally manufactured by Jackson Agility in 2008 (I believe). They have only been used and stored indoors other than briefly during trials. Both items come with their own set of removable wheels.

The Dogwalk can be easily lowered to about 2’ in height by removing a few pins or any other height by creative bracing. It has two sets of ramps with 42” (AKC) and 36” (UKI, USDAA) contact zones. The original 36” ramps do have an aluminum brace on each ramp, but do sit flush to the ground. The 42” ramps were made by Tim Allen and are self-reinforced but do have more of a square edge to them. ASDS will keep whichever set is not preferred by the purchaser, unless otherwise arranged. The dogwalk has been used with a center support in the middle of it due to the high volume of larger dogs on it, but that does not come with the dogwalk. It is in great condition.

The AF has had a few minor repairs to welds at the end of one of the ramps and is in great condition. The height can be adjusted easily by the chains that come with it.

Lori Michaels will take privately messaged or texted bids for the next two weeks (until Sept 30), do not message this ASDS account. I do have a set minimum for each. If you place a bid, I will tell you if you are the current highest bidder or not and inform you if you have lost the highest bid. The winning bidder will need to arrange for pick-up at ASDS within the month.

Please feel free to comment or message Lori with any questions!

05/12/2024

We are so proud of our ASDS Students competing in Agility at Westminster: Beckey Wertenberger with Fletcher, Michele Borgman with Shelby and Inez Pennington with Kipsey! Michele and Inez made finals on Sunday with Shelby and Kipsey! Well done!!!

04/13/2024

Thank you to Agility Ability and all of its hard working members for an amazing and efficient day of ISC. It was so fun and the courses ran great. Thank you guys for all the efforts that went into making today happen.

04/01/2024

Congrats to Kristina Hanson and Kara for winning the 8”(s) Biathlon and Blue Ribbon Final at the 1TDC UKI Invitational!!!

03/27/2024

Huge congrats to Michelle Borgman with Shelby and Cassie Schmidt with True for being selected to represent the US on the first ever Senior Agility World Championship team!!!!!

03/16/2024

A new session of Puppy Manners and Family Manners is now open for registration. Classes start April 16.

02/26/2024

Our March/April session of Intro-Level agility classes is now open for registration on our website!

01/22/2024

Hi Monday night students. It looks dicy tonight, especially on the Kansas side where there is a weather isvisory for freezing rain starting at 6pm, plus it hasn’t gotten as warm here as forecasted. We have decided to cancel tonight for the safety of our students traveling to/from class.

01/21/2024

We absolutely love that our rental times have been filling up this year. To give all of our patrons equal opportunities to book times, we are updating our rental policies and reinforcing other guidelines that are already in place.

-Please FB message both Cassie and Lori to request a rental time. Those requests need to be made at least 24 hours in advance and sent between 8am-9pm.

-All persons attending the rental need to be listed so we know they have been approved to be in our space. Remember that the fee is the same/hour for up to 2 people and then any additional people are an extra $10 each. For people who are not currently enrolled in classes students at ASDS, the base rental fee is $40/hour. Rentals are not available to people we do not know or have not taken classes at ASDS.

-Due to demand, no more than 3 hours of rentals can be reserved during a 1 week period, per person and no more than two reservations are allowed on the calendar at one time.

-Cancellation/alterations need to made ASAP. The full fee will still be due if the reservation is cancelled within 24 hours of the rental (non weather related). Repeat alterations/ cancellations or non-payment of fees will result in losing rental privileges.

-Please remember this is personal training time, not to be used for coaching or providing instruction (that is subject to additional approval, proof of insurance, a different fee structure, etc). Abuse of this by non-ASDS instructors will result in losing rental privileges.

-There will be times we request that equipment not be moved or, that it is returned to its original location if moved.

-Dogs are expected to be in a crate or supervised at all times. No tethering is allowed.

-Be mindful of returning the key to the lockbox, resetting the combination and closing the door over the dials when done. The sliding black door on the lock box protects the dials from the elements. If this doesn’t get slid back, it can prevent somebody else from accessing the building.

-As always, please treat our space like you would your own. Please pick up after yourselves, remove all your treats/toys and training aids.

01/21/2024

We had an amazing turnout for the Basic Life CPR/AED training yesterday! Thanks so much to Pam Leach for organizing the event and everybody who came to learn.

01/09/2024

All Star Puppy & Manners Class Registration

New sessions of Puppy and Family Manners classes start on February 7, 2024. For more information and registration forms, please check out our website at www.AllStarDogSports.com.

01/09/2024

Classes are cancelled this evening, January 9. Wednesday Students please be advised classes may be cancelled tomorrow, as well.

01/05/2024

Our Annex has new flooring in the main area. Thanks so much to our amazing friends/students for their many hands making light work.

If you are coming to a future event here. We will require matting under crates and chairs and just generally be more careful about food and drink. There will be a $10 fine for any accidents/spills on it.

01/03/2024

Registration is open for the Stimulus Control Seminar with Rachel Downs Pearson on February 9! This is before the UKI trial that weekend so is an excellent opportunity to get in some learning of skills we ALL need to improve upon. More information is on our website:

01/03/2024

We have a couple of working spots available for Anna Hinze/Enya Habel international handling seminar on Feb 16-18. Our facility is in Blue Springs, MO (Kansas City area).

On Friday evening, Anna and Enya will be presenting a lecture on Foundations for Sport Dogs and training philosophies. The lecture is open to anyone and cost is $80.

On Saturday and Sunday, we will have a two day International Handling seminar. Participants will train one day with Anna and one day with Enya. Cost is $500. Auditing is also available.

If you are interested or would like more information, please message me directly.

12/21/2023

CPR is an undeniably valuable skill that is absolutely necessary for the event of a sudden cardiac arrest. By supplementing CPR with AED defibrillators, the chances of survival with the least amount of damage actually doubles.
We are very fortunate to be able to host Basic Life in giving a training class in CPR and the use of our new AED as ASDS.

The class will be held at ASDS on Saturday, January 20th at 9:30 (Please note time change to 9:30). It will be approximately 2 hours in length and Basic Life is happy to answer any questions and will also show us canine CPR. The cost is $55. This is a small price to pay to save someone’s life.

Please let Pam ([email protected]) know if you want to be added to the list. We promise it will be both fun and educational!

10/24/2023

Our new AED has arrived! This will placed in an easily accessible location for all future events at ASDS.

10/12/2023

Our Intro-level agility classes with Jen and Janel are now open for online registration!!!!

06/27/2023

I am so excited to share my training program for teaching fluent wraps, pushes and pulls (aka backsides and threadles). Now that agility training has evolved to a place where we can feasibly have 9+ verbal cues for a single jump, we need to make sure that we provide our dogs with the proper understanding of the complex behaviors associated with what we are asking them to perform. Old school methods tend to associate a cue to the situation and have the dogs learn through trial and error. This does not typically result in the dog having independent skills without a lot of supportive information via our location, motion, body cues, that were likely used from the very early training stages to help them learn.
When we teach these behaviors from the dog's perspective, from the ground up and in manner that makes sense to them, we are able to teach the behavior, attach the verbal cue and then apply the cue to the obstacle. The result is behaviors that are performed with greater confidence, speed and independence. In this class, we will focus on the foundation skills that will then be applied to teaching directional jump wraps, Pull wraps (aka threadle wraps), Pull slices (aka threadle slices), Push wraps and slices (backside sends), tight turns out of the tunnel and pulls to the off-side of the tunnel (tunnel pulls). The progression of class over 4+ months allows the dogs to learn behaviors prior to introducing new skills, thus reducing their confusion and learning more efficiently. This is the reason the class length is extended so dogs/handlers may work at their own pace.
More information and training plan is posted on my website. I am offering a discount for full payment of class up front, but split payment and pay as you go is also available. Working spots get unlimited Q&A and video feedback.
Auditing is also available.

Now that agility training has evolved to a place where we can feasibly have 9+ verbal cues for a single jump, we need to make sure that we provide our dogs with the proper understanding of the complex behaviors associated with what we are asking them to perform.  Old school methods tend to just sta...

05/03/2023

Thanks to Neida on behalf of the Kansas City Golden Retriever Club for making this nifty timer stand available for use for trials at ASDS.

04/16/2023

May/June Agility Classes

There are so many agility training opportunities coming up this spring/summer! Our Intro 1, Intro 2, Flatwork and Contact, and Intro to Sequencing classes on Thursday nights will begin on May 4 and are open for enrollment online! Lori will be offering and Intermediate sequencing class (just jumps an...

03/15/2023

April session of Puppy and Family Manners is now open for registration.

01/17/2023

Hi Everybody! We are so excited to host Anna Hinze and Enya Hable from February 24-26! There are numerous learning opportunities so please check out the flyer for more information and to register!

All Star Dog Sports will host a variety of seminars and workshops. Information will be posted here as it becomes available.

12/22/2022

We are so proud of our students who earned the right to represent their breed at AKC Agility Invitationals this last weekend! Congrats to Renee and Woody-Wolf (Pomeranian), Lynn and Ellie (Barbet), Inez and Kipsey (Manchester Terrier), and Sheryl and Jetta (Schipperke)!