Florida Agility

a guide to dog agility competition in Florida

Pro Trial Secretaries

BARC 4 Agility (Jacqui O’Neill) - website
Big Dog Trial Services (Lori Patterson) - website
June’s Agility Services (June Ebert) - website
Leap of Faith Dog Training and Services (Winona Leard) - website

Trial Statistics

These statistics are a byproduct of a spreadsheet that I use to keep track of trials. I cannot report on numbers of runs, etc. Except for AKC, the figures are just not there. Even then it takes weeks to get the numbers from the AKC.

CPE Info

CPE is the second most popular venue in the terms of trial weekends and trial days. The bulk of the trials are currently held in the main part of Florida north of Tampa. All of these sites are outdoors on grass. Recently, Calusa has been offering CPE trials at Bratty Paws (indoors on synthetic turf). Also, the introduction of CPE Speedway events that consist of hoops, barrels and tunnels and the smaller space requirements have prompted IPOC to hold some Summer Speedway events on their indoor mats.

Some useful CPE links

Main page
Agility schedule
Rules
Facebook

DACOF

DACOF is a state wide agility team competition that is usually held at the end of June at a large indoor facility. It is not sanctioned by any organization but generally follows AKC rules. Teams are sponsored by clubs or can just be a group of individuals that train together.

DACOF also has a Facebook group

If you would like to organize a team, you need to start planning by January. Check the “Send a Team” title on the DACOF web site for what you need to do to send a team. Also check the “Important Deadlines” page on the site for the various deadlines. These deadlines will also be in the Floridaagility Calendar.

Organizations Hosting Trials

Atlanta Kennel Club (AKC) - website facebook
Bratty Paws Dog Plex (UKI, USDAA) - website facebook instagram
Brilliant Dogs (UKI) - website facebook instagram
Calusa Dogs Agility Club (AKC, CPE, UKI) - website facebook
Central Florida Dog Sports (AKC) - website facebook
Central Florida Obedience Dog Club (AKC) - facebook
Central Florida Toy Fox Terrier Club (AKC) - website facebook
Cool Critters (NADAC, TDAA) - website facebook
Dog Agility Competition Of Florida (DACOF) - website facebook
Doberman Pinscher Club of Florida (AKC) - facebook
Dog Obedience Club of Hollywood (AKC) - website
Dog Obedience Club of Lee County (AKC) - website facebook
DogStar Performance Dog Sports (UKI) - website facebook instagram youtube pinterest
Dog Training Club of St Petersburg (AKC) - website facebook facebook agility trials
Dog Training Club of Tampa (AKC, TDAA) - website facebook instagram twitter
Dog-On-It Agility Club of Central Florida (AKC, USDAA, UKI) - website facebook
Five Flags Dog Training Club (AKC) - website facebook
Florida Pan-Handlers ASC (ASCA) - website facebook
Greater Ocala Dog Club (AKC) - website
Greater Panama City Dog Fanciers' Association (AKC) - website
Heartland Dog Club of Florida (AKC) - website facebook
Imperial Polk Obedience Club (AKC, SCPE, UKC) - website facebook
Indian River Dog Training Club (TDAA) - website facebook
Marion Alachua Dog Training Association (AKC, UKC) - website facebook
Miami Obedience Club (AKC) - website facebook
NorAust k9 Sports (AKC, CPE) - website facebook
Obedience Club of Daytona Beach (AKC) - website facebook
Obedience Training Club of Palm Beach County (AKC) - website facebook
Ochlockonee River Kennel Club (AKC) - website facebook
Palm Bay Agility Club (AKC) - website
Pals and Paws Dog Agility Club (AKC, USDAA) - website facebook
Pawsitive Action K9 Sports (CPE) website facebook
Pawsitively Fun Dog Training Group (USDAA) - facebook
Sarasota Obedience Training Club (AKC) - website facebook
Shetland Sheepdog Club of Southeast Florida (AKC) - website facebook
Sonlight Ranch and K9 Events Center (AKC, CPE) - website facebook
Sunshine Belgian Tervuren Club (AKC) - website facebook
Sunshine Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club (AKC) - website facebook
Tailwaggers Learning Center (AKC) - website facebook
Tampa Bay Agility Club (AKC) - website facebook
Tampa Bay Area Shetland Sheepdog Club (AKC) - website facebook
Tampa Bay Boxer Club - (NADAC) website
Tampa Bay German Shepherd Dog Club (AKC) - facebook
Trained Dog Happy Dog (CPE) - website
Treasure Coast Kennel Club (AKC) - website facebook
Upper Suncoast Dog Training Club (AKC) - website facebook
Valdosta Kennel Club (AKC) - facebook

NADAC Info

NADAC is in the bottom tier (under 20 trial days per year) of trials in Florida. All of the trials are in the Tampa area and do not have RV facilities. They are mostly outdoors on grass and a summer trial indoors at DTCT. Ileana Nadal, who hosted most of the NADAC trials recently passed and the future of NADAC trials in Florida is TBD.

Main Page
Trial Calendar
Rules (link may break if they are updated - let me know)
Facebook

TDAA Info

TDAA is in the bottom tier (under 20 trial days per year) of trials in Florida. Most trials are in the middle of the peninsula. They are mostly in indoor training buildings on mats.

Main Page
Trial Calendar
Rules, etc.
Facebook

Jacksonville

Jacksonville - Gill Chapman
Jacksonville - Pals and Paws Agility
Saint Augustine - Pet Camp

AKC Info

The most popular of the venues. Nearly half of the trial sets and over half of the trial days. Most AKC events are held indoors on artificial turf or in outdoor covered areas on dirt. A few are held outdoors on grass. Most of the AKC sites have RV facilities or will allow dry camping. The major exception is the indoor site at St Petersburg which does not have room. AKC trials are held in all parts of the state from Pensacola to Miami. Most weekends will have at least one set of trials and I have seen as many as four AKC trial sets spread across the state.

Some useful AKC links:

Main web site
Agility Section
Agility Regulations

Regulations
Agility Trial Manual
Judges Guidelines

Event Search
Old Style Event Search (FL only) Note, you can edit the URL to include multiple or different states by changing the “states=“ string for example, states=FL,GA. You can also change the activity by changing the abbreviation following the grouping=AG to another valid abbreviation such as SCWK, FCAT, etc. Multiple activities can be specified by specifying something like grouping=AG,FCAT. Once you get the results you like, just bookmark the page and you can repeat the search anytime you like.
Social Media

NAC Facebook
Invitational Facebook
Agility Dog Community
Trial Secretary BLOG
Judges BLOG

UKC Info

UKC is in the bottom tier (under 20 trial days per year) of trials in Florida. The trials are basically offered by two clubs. MADTA in Ocala and IPOC in Lakeland. IPOC trials are indoors on mats and MADTA is usually outdoors with Obedience, etc in their building.

Links for UKC

Main page
Calendar
Rules & Forms
Facebook

ASCA info

The Australian Shepherd Club of America ranks in the bottom tier of agility trials in Florida. A single club offers four sets of three day trials a year. The trials are held under a covered arena (Baker, FL) in the panhandle..

Some useful ASCA links:

ASCA main site
ASCA event search
ASCA agility rules (note a change may break the link - let me know)
Facebook

UKI Info

UKI lies in the middle tier of organizations in Florida. Not as many trials as AKC or CPE but significantly more than the organizations in the bottom tier. The UKI US-OPEN will reside in Jacksonville for the next few years. Anyone can attend the US OPEN but you can earn byes into the later rounds at UKI trials. Most of the trial sites are on grass with some trials on artificial turf at Bratty Paws. The US OPEN is held at the Jacksonville Equestrian center using the Indoor arena, the outdoor covered arena and some open arenas as necessary.

UKI Links

Main Page
US OPEN
Event Calendar
Rules Due to the nature of the link it will break if it is updated - let me know
Facebook - Main
Facebook - US Open

Welcome to the new Florida Agility

Note: The address has changed to http://floridagility.com (only one a in the middle). Floridaagility.com will redirect to this page for a while. The email address is changing to floridagility@gmail.com but the old one will work for a while.

This new site makes extensive use pop up windows like this for displaying information, sub menus, etc. For example, clicking on one of the organizations in the beginning of the page will open a pop up window with information for that organization. To close this and all the other pop up windows just click the “X” in the upper right corner. The text in most of the pop up windows is scrollable.

The old site will remain available at http://floridaagility.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/index.html for a limited time. This is mostly so I do not have to relink all the calendar entries. If there is something from the old site that you would like to see on this site, let me know. Old links to premiums in the calendar to the old site will also get you into the old site structure.

This pop up will set a cookie so it will appear once (actually, it will appear again a year from now if I forget to remove the code!) . If you want to see it again, click on the New Site info link at the bottom of the front page. If you use a private/incognito window or different browser or regularly toss your cookies this will pop up again.

The general philosophy of this site is to open documents not within the Florida Agility navigation structure in a new tab/window.

Do let me know if you spot any errors or bad links.

USDAA Info

USDAA lies in the middle tier of organizations in Florida. Not as many trials as AKC or CPE but significantly more than the organizations in the bottom tier. Most USDAA trials are held in the north half of Florida. Most of the trials are on grass but Pals & Paws does them on dirt indoors at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center or outdoors on dirt under cover at the St. Johns county fairgrounds.

USDAA Links

Main Page
Calendar
Rules
Facebook
Instagram

Central East

Apopka/Zellwood - Dog-On-It Agility Club of Central Florida
Apopka/Zellwood - Legendary Agility Training
Daytona Beach - Obedience Club Of Daytona
Deland - Central Florida Dog Sports
Lady Lake - NorAust K9 Sports
Longwood - Castle Keep Pet Day Care & Training
Mount Dora - Full Stride Dog Agility
Orlando - Beyond the Leash Dog Training
Orlando - K9s24-7
Orlando - Practice Makes Pawfect
Osteen - Best Paw Forward Inc.
Sorrento - Agility Focus
Sorrento - Precocious Paws
Weirsdale - Be the Leader of the Pack

Panhandle

Cairo, GA - 24k Retrievers
Crestview - Agility Paws
Crestview - Dog Max
Havana - Ochlockonee River Kennel Club
Milton - Head of the Class Dog Agility
Niceville - Pet's Behave
Tallahassee - At Home Veterinary Care

Central West

Brandon - Karen Holik - On Course Agility
Brooksville - Dixie Dawgs
Brooksville - Puppy Love Dog Training
Brooksville - Sonlight Ranch Training & K9 Event Center
Clearwater - Upper Suncoast Dog Training Club
Dade City - Champions Canine Center
Davenport - International Dog Training Center
Lakeland - Das Hund Haus
Lakeland - Imperial Polk Obedience Club
Lutz - Courteous Canine, Inc DogSmith of Tampa
Safety Harbor - Learn With Jenza
Saint Petersburg - Dog Training Club of St. Petersburg
Tampa - Dog Training Club of Tampa
Tampa - KETCH
Valrico - Cool Critters
Winter Haven - Lucky Dog Canine Training
Zephyrhills - Keegan's Magic

Notification Options

The following are the notification options. In general they are the easiest (and most invasive) to the most difficult (and least invasive) order:

Social Media - Just click on the Twitter or Facebook icons in the footer and like/follow the Floridaagility page.
Email - Every day at 6 am there is an email robot that will generate an email if any activity has occurred the previous twenty four hours. This would be my favorite since it is focused (no additional clutter to wade through). The following is the process

Click here (after you have completed reading the following steps)
You will be taken to a form to fill in. Enter your email address and optionally your name.Click on subscribe. If you do not provide a name, it will be addressed to Agility Enthusiast (a real name would make it less spammy). We once had a woman named Candy who only provided her first name. Guess who her emails were addressed to!
Receive email to confirm your email address (Check your spam folder if you do not receive it in a few minutes) Click on the link to confirm your email address.
Receive an email confirming your subscription

RSS Feed - This is the most anonymous of the options. I do not know who is subscribed or even how many are subscribed. The feed is used to feed the posts to social media and email. There are numerous news readers that will handle RSS feeds (blogs). Often, when a reader is offered on multiple platforms, they will sync between the various devices so you can pickup on a device where you left off on another device. I currently use Feedly on my Macs and iDevices. Either click on this link or copy the feed link address. (if you utilize this type of service they will have to keep track of the sites that you visit) If you have a reader on your system and it has told the system to route the request to it, it should be activated and you will be requested to add the feed to your news feeds. Otherwise, copy the link address and paste it into your news app.

FEED LINK: http://floridaagility.com/premiums/premiums-index.xml

Southeast (Space Coast thru the Keys)

This area has no real clusters. The facilities are more like a string of pearls dangling from the Space Coast through the keys. The organizations are listed North to South. The list is scrollable.

Merritt Island - Brevard County Dog Training Club
Rockledge - Barkingham Place
Melbourne - K9 Kampus LLC
Palm Bay - JaVic Dog Training
Fellsmere - Ann Braue's Canine Training Center
Vero Beach - Paw Prints of Vero Beach
Fort Pierce - Treasure Coast Kennel Club
Port Saint Lucie - Spot On Agility
Palm City - Humane Society of the Treasure Coast
Palm City - Ace Dog Training
Jupiter - Lucky Dog Training Club
Palm Beach Gardens - Dog Days
Lake Park - Obedience Training Club of Palm Beach County
Loxahatchee - Ultimate Dog Sports
West Palm Beach - Tailwaggers Learning Center
West Palm Beach - CONNECT! Dog Training
West Palm Beach - Stride Ahead Agility
Boca Raton - Clint Moore Animal Hospital
Davie - Dog Training Academy of South Florida
Davie - Achieve Agility
Davie - Dog Obedience Club of Hollywood
Davie - Davie Road Agility
North Miami - Bauser's Pet Training
Miami - Miami Obedience Club
Key Largo - Gold Dust Animal Care
Islamorada - Island Dog Academy

North Central

Alachua - Dogstar Performance Dog Sports
Archer - Dog's Play
Beverly Hills - Sonic Canines
Beverly Hills - Training Ventures
Fort White - Pawsitively Fun Dog Training
Ocala - Bow Wow Dog Training
Ocala - Havenlea Dog Training Centre
Ocala - Marion-Alachua Dog Training Association
Palatka - Canine Companions Dog Training
Williston - Shari Vespested
Williston - Team Sport of Agility

Southwest

Myakka City - Sarasota Obedience Training Club
Naples - Kennedy Performance Dogs
Naples - Lucky Dog Company
Naples - Ruffgers Dog University
Punta Gorda - Bratty Paws Dog Plex
Sarasota - Oceanwolf Agility
South West - Bayside Pet Resort
Venice - Greater Venice Florida Dog Club