Brilliant Dogs

28/10/2024

We loved having Petr again and these courses were SO fun!

21/10/2024

I know things have been crazy for everyone with the storms so I wanted to assure you we will take day of show entries this weekend! The weather looks really nice and it’s always breezy at FCP, come enjoy your dogs with us.

05/09/2024

Our fall trial Oct 26-27 is open on the UKI site. I am so pleased to have live to judge for us! He is such a friendly and fun judge and my personal opinion is that his courses are some of the most clever designs right now. Please join us and support bringing in judges like this so we can do it more often! I’m also now opening up lessons with before and after the show Thursday-Tuesday so message me if that interests you. He is also one of my favorite people to work with and I promise you will enjoy it at any level you are at. Hit me up with questions. 🙂 see you all soon. 😘

07/03/2024

I’ve been needing to do a cup follow up post for awhile but it’s one of those things I always panic that I will forget someone important so I’ve procrastinated, also who reads these? lol

However, I’ve done some reflecting over the last few days now that we wrapped up the season. I am so unbelievably lucky to have the crew and support that I do. When I started hosting shows my whole goal was to challenge ourselves with progressive course design while also bringing a sense of community back to the events, and my community is the very best. ❤️

First, and most importantly, I so appreciate everyone who attended the Brilliant Dog events this year, who was patient through everything, who chipped in to help. Seeing your posts about your dogs success on those courses and being so grateful for the opportunity makes me so happy.

As always, I have more people to thank than I'll be able to remember but here's my best exhausted attempt. First, thank you to 2024 season judges: Katie Briggs, Mike Murphy, Jan Egil Eide, Mike Wager and Joe Boudreau (also best scoring software and support!) Judging is such a thankless job and I loved working with all of you this year.

Thank you to Monica Watson for being by my side all the time and helping me with whatever I needed before I knew I needed it. (And for trash and for yelling at people 😂) Thank you to Helen Trapp for being the best trial secretary ever, I don't know how I got so lucky to call you my friend but here we are. Thank you to Emily Dammer for also being the best scribe, timer, and anything else we ever needed, but even more importantly for single handedly letting me rely on her for all the sponsors for the cup! I could not do what you did. You’re amazing. Thank you to Carol Perrella, Maite Crespo and Kaylee Folk for your very important role this year. I am so grateful for your friendship and blessed to have your help. Thank you to Eric Bobkowski, Karen Holik for being there for literally everything, such amazing class acts who have the experience to just get things done without needing me to manage it takes so much pressure off me. I love you both and am so grateful. Every single judge told me how great it was to barely need to tweak courses because they are built so well. I will never not be thanking Cody Barden for everything he does for me every year. Finally, because it seems like I will never actually own everything I need to run this thing thank you to Donna Brian, Jaimie Weber and Bridget Thomas for totally being like, you need my stuff? Sure! I love our community and how we all step up to help when it's needed but this goes above and beyond sometimes to loan your personal stuff and it's so appreciated.

There are a bunch more people who just stepped in as needed and I want to thank you individually too but this post would be a novel and I already feel its longer than anyone wants to read but it feels so important to do this, as while I certainly get the credit, it is never me alone making this thing go. I am loving reading all your posts, it really does mean so much to me.

Onto planning for 2025 shows and events. 🎈
(Thanks to Rob Robinson for the amazing photos, including the one below).

29/02/2024

Hi Everyone – Thank you for joining us for 2024 season shows, our last show is this coming weekend and we are taking day of show entries if you wanna come out!

Wanted to let you know about Brilliant Dogs shows for the 2025 season/year, all will be at Florida Classic Park in Brooksville, FL:

2025 SEASON / Oct 26-27, 2024 – great opportunity for US Open prep and seminars to follow the show
2025:
Jan 4-5 Chris Derby judging

Feb 7-9 CUP Tamas Traj judging, games judge TBD, volunteers welcome

Mar 1-2 - show, judge TBD

Mar 11-12 Jan Egil Eide course work

28/02/2024

Hey everyone here is the final feature. Please remember to donate. ❤️ Thank you again, Rob fabulous as always!

24/02/2024

Hi everyone, I've seen some of you sharing "leaked" ;) photos from Rob. Here is an official link that he gave me to share. Please remember he gives these photos for FREE because he wants you to have these memories and he works really hard on them (as you can tell.) It would be amazing, and mean a lot to me, if you donated to him, even $5. With as much as agility costs, I know everyone has a few bucks to throw his way.

https://2024-uki-us-se-cup.badazzdogz.net/?fbclid=IwAR3ONLZvR48JxAct9EBvc4oek-W0UjEYsrz4BhC_51QSVU2CZxi_g3afQi0

22/02/2024

Hi everyone, I had to take down the Joe Boudreau and Aaron Froude seminar so that they could cross the border and then with everything with the cup I forgot to post it again. This is an opportunity for next Friday, March 1st. See details here:

https://mybrilliantdog.com/brilliant-dogs-agility-camps-with-joe-boudreau-amp-aaron-froude/

I also may have a couple spots available with Emily Klarman on Monday, March 11. Let me know if you are interested in that. I don't have a public sign up as it will be a small group.

Thank you for your interest in these seminars, if you are interested in these opportunities, please fill out the form below and I will contact you with information to secure your spot, from there i…

13/02/2024

Sneak peek

12/02/2024

Some photos from someone who came to the show over the weekend.

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12/02/2024

We can’t believe the weekend is already over, but a huge congrats to everyone who participated, including our final podium winners! 🏆🏅 A big shout out to all of our sponsors: Wild at Heart, Ninja Bling, Non-stop dogwear, Gaining Wellness, Twisted Bliss - It's ALL About the Dog, Synchrony Chiropractic, Florida Dog Sports, Saint Rocco's Treats, 1-TDC Works So Well, and Vreli Middleton! We couldn’t put on such a fun event without your support! 🏃‍♀️Also, thank you to Bad A*z Dogz for shooting some awesome photos! 📸

11/02/2024

11/02/2024

Finals today! Thank you Jan Egil Eide for coming to Florida and giving us these amazing courses!

11/02/2024

Biathlon Courses from 2024 Cup

11/02/2024

Masters Series Courses from 2024 Cup

11/02/2024

Congratulations to all the Games and Speedstakes podium winners today! 🏆 A big shout out to the sponsors Twisted Bliss - It's ALL About the Dog and 1-TDC Works So Well! And thank you Bad A*z Dogz for the awesome photos! We look forward to tomorrow’s runs and some more fun podium prizes!

10/02/2024

We are so lucky that we get Rob to shoot our cup! Remember he gives these photos for free and asks for only donations. Let’s all support him so he comes back next year!