Agility
Your First Agility Competition: What to Expect
Entering your first agility competition? From registration and measuring to the course walk, your run and the prize-giving, here's how a competition day works and how to make it a good one.
Beginners
Agility
Best Dog Breeds for Agility (and Why Your Dog Can Do It Too)
Border Collies dominate the podium, but agility welcomes every breed and mix. Which breeds excel in each height category, what really makes a good agility dog, and what to consider if your dog isn't a 'typical' one.
Hoopers
Hoopers: Agility's Low-Impact Cousin
Hoopers is a flowing, jump-free course sport where the dog runs through hoops, round barrels and through tunnels while the handler directs from a small box. Rules, first exercises and where to try it in Belgium.
Dog Sports
Dog Sports: Which One Suits You and Your Dog?
Agility, flyball, hoopers, obedience, rally, canicross, nosework, ring sports, dog dancing and disc dog compared: what each involves, which dogs and handlers they suit, and where to start in Belgium.
Agility
Finding an Agility Club in Belgium
Where to find agility clubs in Belgium, from the VOE club list and DSAB to KKUSH, NVBK and Sport Vlaanderen's database, plus what to ask before you join so you choose the right club for you and your dog.
Agility
How to Start Competing in Agility in Belgium (licence, workbook, classes)
Work certificate, IB number, TAP, social test, classes and promotion: a step-by-step guide to entering your first agility competition in Belgium with VOE, DSAB or KKUSH.
Nosework
Nosework and Scent Detection as a Sport
Nosework turns your dog's greatest talent, its nose, into a sport: finding a hidden target odour in boxes, rooms, outdoor areas and vehicles. How it works, how to start at home, and what's available in Belgium.
Canicross
Canicross: Running With Your Dog
Canicross is cross-country running with your dog attached to you by a bungee line. What you need, how races work, how to train safely, and how to race with the Belgian Canicross Federation.
Agility
The Agility Glossary: A–Z of Terms
2o2o, SCT, ketschker, threadle, tunnel suck? From A-frame to weave poles, all the agility jargon explained in one place, with the Dutch and French terms you'll hear in Belgium.
Agility
What Is Dog Agility? A Complete Beginner's Guide
Agility is a fast, fun sport in which a handler guides a dog around a course of jumps, tunnels, weave poles and contact obstacles, with no lead and no treats. Here's how it works, who it suits and how to begin.
Agility
Puppy Foundations for Future Agility Dogs
Your puppy is too young to jump, but not too young to learn. These safe, fun foundation exercises build the drive, body awareness and focus that make a great agility dog.
Rally Obedience
Rally Obedience: A Beginner's Guide
Rally obedience is a course of numbered signs, each asking for an exercise such as a turn, a halt and sit, or a spiral. You can talk to your dog the whole way round. How it works, how to start and what's available in Belgium.