What about AKC (or CKC obedience) or agility for her. Obedinece competition has given both my dogs great focus and truly gives them something to work at.
Don't remember if your dog is a rescue, but if so, you should be able to get something called an ILP which will let you compete in AKC and probably CKC (sorry don't know anything about their rules) events.
Marj - thanks. She is a rescue. I'll look up what ILP is.
I'm not sure if I'd enjoy obedience, to be honest - I've really enjoyed doing it and seeing Luc learn and excel, that's been hugely rewarding, but I'm not sure about competing in terms of my temperament. Though we'd also need to do it for SchH. I might really enjoy it, but it hasn't been a strong attractant from a competition point of view yet, that could change I guess.
I was wondering about tracking, for both the dogs (after I finish some races next summer, until then, Luc's job is running w/me), assuming Teagan isn't a good SchH prospect. If she is, I wonder if honing her prey drive (would it be fair to say stylizing it???) wouldn't be a good thing for her. I'd like her to have an outlet for that. I'll have to see, I guess.
also, as a long coat, wouldn't she be disqualified anyways, or that doesn't matter for this? my understanding is that long coated GSDs are now outside of bred standard, even though they happen in PB dogs.
ILP is short for Indefinite Licensing Privilege. It's a mechanism to allow dogs that appear to be purebred to compete in obedience. If your dog Looks like a German Shepherd Dog, is spayed or neutered, and you send about 2 or 3 photos the AKC will send you an ILP number.
This allows you to compete in the AKC obdeience sports like Rally, Agility and Obedience.
I have friends who compete in AKC obedience with Long Haired or coated Shepherds so that shouldn't be a problem for you.
Long coats are excluded from the breed standard?! What?! You canadians, we just gotta watch you all the time or you pull crazy stuff, huh?
LOL you and your canadian comments! tee hee
as far as i know, it's an AKC thing as well actually :P i know it's a fault, but i guess it doesn't stop them from doing competitions if Marj has friends who compete with them.
i don't understand the whole fault thing when it comes to aesthetics like coat length (i mean, yeah, she's going to get tangles easier....but....meh) to be honest....i can get personality/character faults, that's kinda obvious - but i don't know how faults work in competition either.
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