Agility

Agility Premium List

April 23  - 24
Judge: Joan Mullen

Joan's Bio:  In 1988, I joined an obedience club with my young lab. My goal was to have a well mannered pet. Soon, I became an active member of the club, serving two terms as president, then board member and showing 3 dogs to their UD’s.
In 1990, several club members got together and built some agility equipment. At the time, no one knew anything about training agility obstacles and certainly nothing about handling.

My young dog at the time, a GSD named Dancer, was very talented so I wanted to learn as much as I could about this new sport. I traveled to seminars and read every book I could find. Dancer and I loved training and showing. Her 2 most memorable moments were taking first place in rounds 1 and 2 in the 24” division at the 1996 AKC Nationals and then placing 2nd overall at the 1997 AKC Nationals.

Unfortunately, Dancer had to be retired due to an injury that spring. In order to stay active in the sport I loved, I became an AKC agility judge in March 1998.

In my search for my next top level competition dog, I researched many breeds and decided on a Belgian Malinois. I brought home my first Malinois in 1997. I was amazed at how smart and athletic they were. Before then, I had owned and trained 4 different breeds. I currently own 3 Malinois and know I have found “my breed”. My current competition dog is still competitive in the 20” Excellent B class. We show much less than we used to. After all, he will be 10 years old this spring! My new agility hopefully is a young dog from ABMC rescue. She is a joy and we are having a great time learning our foundations skills for agility.
 

Western Agility Group
10925 Bruceville Road
Elk Grove, CA

The WAG agility facility has an 80 x 160 agility ring under cover with crate setup areas and a 90 x 180 grass ring.

Agility will be run in the outside grass ring.  Bring shade!!!!

22 RV sites with water and electrical hookups available. No showers.  $XX/night payable to WAG.

Directions

Hwy 99:

• Take the Elk Grove Blvd exit and go West
• Turn left at Bruceville Rd and go approx 3.5 miles to driveway on the left
• There is a big sign at the driveway

I-5

• Take the Elk Grove Blvd exit and go East
• Turn right at Bruceville Rd and go approx 3.5 miles to driveway on the left
• There is a big sign at the driveway

Directions from Hotel

• Go EAST on Westover Ave.  Go .10 mi
• Turn RIGHT onto O'Malley Ave. Go 0.2 mi
• Turn LEFT onto Peacekeeper Way
• Turn RIGHT onto Watt Ave.  Go 1.3 mi
• Take the I-80 BUSINESS ramp.  Go 0.3 mi
• Merge onto CAPITAL CITY FWY.  CAPITAL CITY FWY becomes CA-99 S.
• Take the Elk Grove Blvd exit and go West
• Turn left at Bruceville Rd and go approx 3.5 miles to driveway on the left
• There is a big sign at the driveway