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.
Competition
Obedience
Competitive Obedience Explained
Competitive obedience is about precision and teamwork: heelwork, recalls, retrieves, send-aways and scent discrimination, scored by a judge. How FCI obedience works, how to start, and the Belgian obedience programmes.
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.
Flyball
Flyball: The Fastest Team Sport for Dogs
Flyball is a relay race for teams of four dogs: over four hurdles, trigger a ball from a box, and back again. Here's how it works, which dogs suit it, how to start training and where to play flyball in Belgium.
Agility
Competing Abroad from Belgium: Paperwork, Vaccinations and Practicalities
Pet passport, rabies vaccination timing, tapeworm treatment for Great Britain and Finland, competition documents for VOE, DSAB and KKUSH handlers, and practical tips for taking your agility dog to events abroad.
Ring Sports
Belgian Ring, Mondioring and IGP: Belgium's Working Dog Sports
Belgian Ring, Mondioring and IGP test working dogs in obedience, jumps, tracking and protection work. What each sport involves, how they differ, who they suit and how they're organised in Belgium.
Agility
FCI Agility Rules Explained: Classes, Height Categories and Faults
Faults, refusals, eliminations, standard course time, height categories and classes: the international FCI agility rules explained in plain English, with notes on how Belgian organisations like VOE and DSAB fit in.
Agility
How to Walk an Agility Course
The course walk is where runs are won and lost. A step-by-step method for reading the course map, finding the dog's line, choosing your handling and rehearsing it until it's automatic.
Agility
The Belgian Agility Year: Championships and Major Events
From winter competitions to the VOE Belgian Championship, DSAB's WAO try-outs and KKUSH's Belgian Cup and Grand Prix: how the Belgian agility season fits together, month by month, and where to find the current dates.
Agility
Belgium on the International Agility Stage
Belgian handlers compete at the World Agility Open, the IFCS World Agility Championships, IMCA and the FCI Agility World Championship. Here's how each team is selected, which Belgian organisation runs the selection, and what Belgium has won.