Courtney Keys - Agility Judge

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Courtney Keys - Agility Judge

Courtney Keys designs courses and judges dog agility for USDAA and UKI.

10/20/2024

Strong finish 19 min ahead today after a good Saturday too! I did not discover this schedule before yesterday, but then I became determined to beat it. 😂 Thanks to the New England crew for another great weekend of agility!!

10/18/2024

More experiments in trying to “modernize” (my word for it) USDAA course design while emphasizing flow. It looks super challenging on paper, but I thought it ran well for lots of handlers and dogs of all speeds.

10/18/2024

It’s a three drink kind of morning.

10/17/2024

Good morning from the unholy confines of Denver International. On the way to New England again!

09/06/2024

Thank you to my fellow judges Lauren, Meagan, Bill and Roger for agreeing to come have some fun with us in Oregon!

09/04/2024

I mean, just tag me next time guys 😂😂

07/29/2024

Other small dog agility problems … I’m so rarely in the pics! It’s always just my butt! 😂 loving these shots from the PNW regional from

07/24/2024

“If you need to beat a horse like this to do sport,” Wensing said, “it’s not sport anymore.”

This is truly a sad thing for the Olympic equestrian discipline. And a gentle reminder that our sport, with its canine partners, does not require force or coercion either.

“There is no excuse,” Charlotte Dujardin, a three-time gold medalist, said of her actions captured on video. “I am deeply ashamed and should have set a better example in that moment.”

07/14/2024

I wrote about how I sometimes feel a little lost in the agility world these days. Does size matter??

https://agilityjudge.com/small-agility-dogs-big-agility-world-67578ab4155f

07/02/2024

Hello fellow judges! Do you have any Beginner/Novice/Starters level courses that ran well and you were proud of? Would you be willing to share them with me and talk about them a bit in a post? Comment here or message me!

06/21/2024

Official relocation announcement! Official seminar announcement! Whee!

https://agilityjudge.com/now-broadcasting-from-oregon-21a4c3be718b

06/15/2024

Flowy backsides are allowed in GP so spread the good word!

06/14/2024

Not a bad office!

06/13/2024

15.5 pints tall! 😂🍨

06/13/2024

Off to my first judging assignment from my new home base! It’s about my bedtime here in Portland but instead of going to sleep I’m getting on an overfull plane headed to Vermont! So fun! 🤩 I think the last time I flew across the whole country I was like 11 years old …

06/02/2024

Good luck in Pentathlon finals to everyone at the SDCA UKI Classic!

06/02/2024

One thing I’ve always found to be useful in my judging bag is the full sheet Post-It notes. I’m judging a UKI Classic this weekend so tried to include the special jumps even though no one ever wants to set them. So here’s hoping the notes help!

06/01/2024

All ready to judge the SDCA UKI Classic this weekend in beautiful Del Mar!!

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A spaniel in its natural and preferred habitat! We moved into our new house this month and the dogs were not getting nearly as much off leash time as usual. I now live down the street from Forest Park in Portland and started to explore it yesterday. Nessa had a blast!!! I am so happy to give her this time she needs to just be a dog. If you are considering a spaniel, it’s my opinion that if you’re not willing or able to let them have opportunities to run and sniff, you will not enjoy living with them. They are tiny balls of perpetual motion and any time we can spend on the trails helps so much!! Now my life just needs to settle enough so I can get another one. 🤪

Braving the pollen to get some weave practice in today!

Judge’s dog got lucky today!!

Haven’t been judging this month so I’ve actually had time to train my dog! Weaves were the hardest obstacle for her to learn, but I’m lucky because everything else seemed really easy. So we continue to build confidence! Need to figure out some reasonable goals for us as we head to a few big events soon!

A lot of people like to talk sh*t about how they hate games classes, but they are my favorite! I love figuring out a strategy and running a good plan. Proud of my little baby spaniel here, working hard and getting a Super Q with the highest points of all heights. Look at all the fancy skills we get to practice and look how nice they can make the course flow!

Ness still needs some confidence building in the ring at trials, so I decided to run our second run today NFC. I rewarded a nice confident opening line, then the contacts that are harder for her sometimes. I am so happy she is confident enough to actually take her toy and listen to all her reinforcement cues - it hasn’t always been a given. We followed the course as numbered here because it was a nice one, but you can see she still makes a couple “mistakes” out there. To me those are not a huge deal and likely just things that will improve with more mileage, so I just continued on to keep her in the game. I love running this kid!