Feia Earns Another Agility Title!

Feia completed her Novice Agility title! She is so amazing with her love and drive for this sport!

Feia is showing no signs of coming into her heat cycle at the moment so she will keep trialing. She has qualifying runs in nearly every agility category so she may be capturing a few more titles before becoming a momma, and then she will continue afterward.

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The category of classes in AKC agility trials include: Standard, Jumpers with Weaves, Time 2 Beat, and FAST title tracks. Classes include Novice A, Novice B, Open, Excellent, Master, Premier, Novice Preferred, Open Preferred, Excellent Preferred, Master Preferred, Premier Preferred and then Time 2 Beat and Time 2 Beat Preferred. Each class is broken down into height groups. To earn a championship title in agility, the dog must earn 750 points. Dogs earn points for each full second under standard course time in Master Agility Standard and Master Jumpers with Weaves counts toward the championship. You can read more about it on the A

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