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@.twist.: Hahhaa, okay, you uncovered my real reason.

I used to salsa dance a lot. Like 4 days a week! Now my hobbies are cooking and taking care of my baby ;). Really though, I love cooking, and would love to take some classes. I want to learn to cut vegetables like a pro!

@Beebug: awesome! I recognize you're in Canada, but what venue(s) do you play in? We started in NADAC and CPE, then cut out NADAC and just did CPE. She got her C-ATCH last September. We never ran in AKC because my first dog is a Japanese Spitz (not a breed recognized by AKC) and my second, though a Sheltie, isn't papered and I never got her ILP'd. That was before they started allowing 'other' dogs in. We did DOCNA and UKI and USDAA a handful of times.

I'm afraid that my sheltie has spoiled me ;). She was so easy to train that I'm afraid to start with a terrier. Sniff sniff sniff! *wander*

annnd I realize that I just threw a lot of terms in this post that no one in their right mind would understand lol. For those who are curious:

NADAC: North American Dog Agility Council
CPE: Canine Performance Events
C-ATCH: CPE Agility Trial Champion
AKC: American Kennel Club
ILP: Indefinite Listing Privilege (allows you to sign your unregistered purebred dog up with AKC to do their events)
DOCNA: Dogs On Course in North America
UKI: UK Agility International
USDAA: United States Dog Agility Association

@StrawberryBee: I have been focused on CKC only so far! We have AAC our next most popular "series", I have heard is like USDAA, then CPE and UKI are less popular here, I have never trialed them! Want to talk spoiled? I have the most trainable, driven Golden! He weaves insanely fast and runs slightly slower then BCs, which if you have a sheltie you hopefully know fast, too!!! I'm up to excellent in jumpers and standard, but dropped his jump height and in CKC you have to start over so we just got out of novice for the 2nd time, lol. AKC you can drop and keep going, CKC have to start over, cash grab! He is a weird size (between 20 and 21 inches, way under male breed standard!) so we have struggled in a sense to figure out what jump height he is best suited for! We are taking most of the winter off, I need to get him about 10lbs lighter for "true" performance weight (he is good pet weight!) for next season, but now that I am pg (early still) I am not sure what a May due date will do to our agility season, ooops!