CH Dog Agility LLC

08/30/2024

This might be the cutest guy ever!

08/30/2024

Thank you Claudia Bates and A Click Above for hosting me the last two days. It was a blast! I love this picture of today’s Mind Games participants!

08/24/2024

The premium will be out for our October UKI Trial at Hog Dog soon! The dates are October 12th & 13th with Kelly Ely Judging! Sure to be a fun weekend!

08/22/2024

I have a potential spot open in my Wednesday Masters/Intl class at Hog Dog. Class starts at 2:45. Dogs must be able to run ISC, Uki Championship type courses. PM me for more information.

08/15/2024

The premium is out for the CH Agility Uki trial at Hog Dog on Sept 21st & 22nd. Don't miss this fun trial with Claudette Mo judging! You will love her courses! Claudette is one of the US Open judges this year and we are very excited to have her in Maryland!

07/15/2024

The premium for the CH Agility UKI trial at Hog Dog is up! Plenty of time to enter and double speedstakes on Saturday and double agility on Sunday! Claudette is an amazing judge and course designer!

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July!

06/18/2024

I have an opening in a handling workshop at Bellavista tomorrow due to injury. The workshop is from 2:00-5:00. Pm me if interested.

06/17/2024

Congratulations to Reese and Havana for their incredible showing at the Northeast regional. They were the silver medalist in Grand Prix along with many other Q’s! They are such an amazing young team!

06/17/2024

Congratulations to a Chelsea and the amazing Crush for smoking the Northeast USDAA Regional! I am so thrilled for this team and love watching the magic they share! Premier cup next!

🥇16” Performance Steeplechase Champion!! 🥇
🥇Semifinals & Quarterfinal rounds too!🥇

🥈16” Perf. Reserve

06/03/2024

Christine's classes at Hog Dog are cancelled tonight. She will see everyone next week.

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06/01/2024

What a first day of the NJ Devil classic! So thrilled for students who had the privilege of stepping on boxes! Congratulations to Kai and Tig for winning 16” select Speedstakes, Amy and Fig for silver in 16” Speedstakes, Claudia and Polly for 12” select silver in Speedstakes and Amy and Missy for bronze in 4” select Speedstakes. Nimble also made it on a box! Congratulations to everyone!

05/21/2024

Bad Dog Agility Podcast!

🌟 Episode 342: Interview with the First 12″ Westminster Overall Winner Cynthia Hornor 🕑 (50:25)

🎧 https://baddogagility.com/342

Join Sarah, Esteban, and Jennifer as they sit down with Cynthia Hornor, handler for the incredible Nimble, the first 12" overall champion at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show! 🏆🐾

📚 In this podcast, you will learn:
➡️ Insights into how competitors felt about the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show venue.
➡️ Detailed discussion on the design of the agility courses at Westminster.
➡️ Cynthia’s strategy and approach to navigating the event with Nimble and Truant (last year’s overall champion).
➡️ Why this was one of the best broadcasts ever for an agility event.
➡️ Reasons why Nimble, as the overall winner, has garnered extra attention from the national media, from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal.

🎧 https://baddogagility.com/342

05/05/2024

UkI trials from CH Agility -

September 21 & 22nd - Claudette Mo judging.

October 12 & October 13 - Kelly Ely judging.

Both trials will be at Hog Dog productions.

Save the dates!

05/01/2024

Springtime at Hog Dog! Look at this cutie! 😃

04/09/2024

This!

Loving your dog is easy. Being passionate about the trials is easy.
Success is hard.
Improvement doesn’t happen overnight yet, with the first 2 in place + a growth mindset, you’re well set up to help success happen.

There are 5 traits that come up time and time again that can setback handler/dog teams and there are 6 things you can do to unlock you and your dogs full potential……

Setback traits include:

1. Fear of failure
2. Perfectionism (“perfect is the enemy of good”)
3. Focusing on results, rather than the process
4. Expectations are too high or too low
5. Lack of self awareness

Losing your ego and being humble does away with much of this pretty well.

When you realize if you’re not at the top, very few are watching, you don’t need to be self conscious.
‘Perfect’ isn’t attainable. Not for you, your dog or anyone else, full stop. If you strive for perfection, rather than greatness, you’ll put unrealistic and unfair expectations on your dog, likely spoil a good bit of his enjoyment, risk losing his confidence and miss lots of joy along the way.
Everyone wants to do well with their dog but some don’t want to hear that it takes years of study and dedication to be successful.
It’s the work that leads to the results.
If your expectations are too high, see losing ego above. If your expectation are too low, you’ll not reach your potential, but because you’re humble, hopefully you’ll realize that by trying, you’re already more of a champion than anyone sitting on the fence criticizing and in turn raise expectations.
Self awareness is about honest assessment. Once you can do that for yourself and for your dog, you can get help developing areas in which you or he are not inherently talented. It provides direction and is a key to improvement.

6 Tips to unlock full potential + improve your partnership:

1. Practice consistently and with intention: Clearly outline the objective of the training session bf you start. Focus on specific skills (not just ‘exercise’ for your dog). It’ll not only improve your handling but prepare your mind to react as you recognize situations, even subconsciously. It’ll also grow you and your dogs confidence.(If its not working, you might have to take a step back or revisit fundamentals)

2. Set goals: Make them specific and measurable. If you have lots of goals, sift through them. Try to limit it to 3 at a time.

3. Get feedback: From coaches, trainers, or experienced handlers to help identify areas for improvement. Get an experts input for a new exercise or next steps. It’ll help with motivation.

4. Fundamentals: Mastering the fundamentals is essential. It makes learning the more complex aspects easier and elevates your dogs confidence.

5. Watch and learn: Watch videos of yourself. Objectively. Videoing your training sessions and well as your trials can help immeasurably. It’ll influence both your goal setting and your motivation. Also watch accomplished handlers, study techniques and strategies. Get help from an expert; always be learning.

6. Believe. In yourself and your dog. Follow a proven methodology and believe in the process. Believe in the work. Believe there is not one definition of success and believe that you and your dog will be successful!

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04/08/2024

Congratulations to Amy & Missy on earning their Speedstakes Champion title! I love that the ribbon is bigger than Missy! :) Figment also moved from Senior to Championship! What a great weekend!

04/06/2024

Congratulations to Dara & Sonar for being the number 1 seed in challengers and GOING FOR IT! I am so thrilled for them!

04/06/2024

Congratulations to Christine & Kwik for WINNING Challengers at the 1-TDC invitational and earning the right to run finals. They had an amazing finals run! So thrilled for their wonderful finish!

04/06/2024

Huge Congratulations to Laurie & Ninja on making finals at the 1-TDC UKI Invitational! I am always thrilled to watch this team and I had the added bonus to letting them know that they needed to stay later to run finals! Well done!

03/28/2024

Good luck to students and friends at the 1-TDC UKI Invitational! Especially; Christine & Kwik, Laurie & Ninja, Deb & Simba, Dara & Sonar, Minerva & Omi. Have fun & enjoy the experience! :)

03/28/2024

I have a masters/intl spot open at Hog Dog on April 7th at Hog Dog and a spot open in Novice/Open workshops. Masters/Intl is from 8:30 - 12:00 and Novice/Open is from 1:00 - 4:30 pm. Pm me if interested.

03/19/2024

Congratulations to Kathy & JoJo for having some very nice runs at NAC. They keep getting better & better and I am so happy for them. I can't wait to continue to watch their journey!

03/19/2024

Huge congratulations to Lori & Phoebe for having an amazing NAC! They were two out of three clean and earned a spot in Challengers (one of only two terriers to make finals or challengers!) What a way to knock it out of the park! I am so happy for this incredible team!

03/19/2024

Congratulations to Tina & Pivot on a great showing at their first NAC! They had two out of three clean runs and had an amazing time! I am so happy for them.

03/19/2024

Huge Congratulations to Dara & Sonar for a great NAC! They were clean two out of three runs and had a great showing in the highly competitive 12" class! Well done!

03/19/2024

Huge Congratulations to Chelsea & Crush for an incredible showing at NAC! They were three clean and went to finals! They crushed finals and ended up being the reserve national champs in preferred 16"! Way to rock their first NAC!