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How do dogs get titles?

The dogs earn points towards flyball titles based on the teams time:

* 32-28 secs: Each dog receives 1 point
* 28-24 secs: Each dog receives 5 points
* 24 secs and less: Each dog receives 25 points


The titles the dogs can earn are:

• FD Flyball Dog 20 points required
• FDX Flyball Dog Excellent 100 points required
• FDCh Flyball Dog Champion 500 points required
• FDCh Silver Flyball Dog Champion 1,000 points required
• FDCh Gold Flyball Dog Champion 2,500 points required
• FM Flyball Master 5,000 points required
• FMX Flyball Master Excellent 10,000 points required
• FMCh Flyball Master Champion 15,000 points required
• ONYX ONYX Award 20,000 points required
• FGDCh Flyball Grand Champion 30000 points required
• FGDCh 40k, 50k,... Flyball Grand Champion 40k, 50k, ... 40,000, 50,000, ...points required
• Hobbes Hobbes Award 100,000 points required

So as you can see, Your first time out on the lanes it is quite possible to get your FD and even possibly your FDX.

After a tournament the host team calculates and submits the scores of the weekend to NAFA, then your team captain will receive your certificates in the mail.

They will look like this:

































As you can see, It says Your Dog's name, The title they achieved, and the date they got that title.

This was the best Christmas gift I could have gotten this year. Our team completed out titles (FD and FDX) back in August, and I received the certificates in the mail in December. So as a small little Christmas gift to my team mates, I framed them for everyone.

Personally, I love these. It's a reminder of your success with your dog, and it will be something you'll have forever.

There is NOTHING like that first ever run. I will never forget it for as long as I live.

People often tell me " Its only flyball.. You can throw tennis balls to your dog in the yard"... well my friend.. Its not JUST Flyball. For a lot of us, It's the one thing you can do with your dog that has you working as a whole. You get to met some amazing friends, go to amazing weekends away from home.

I have met some of the most fantastic people I know through Flyball, and I wouldn't give it up for the world!

On that note, my lunch break is over.

Until next time.

Steph

NADA's Fog Dogs Vs. Prepare for Take Off Vapour Tails!

EXCITING NEWS!!

Hey Everyone,

Exciting news! WE HAVE A NEW LOCATION!!

The Fog Dog's will be packing up and shipping out as of April. We no longer will be at the Seahorse Equine Learning Center. We will be going to the CLB Armoury on Harvey Road in St. John's!

This is great for us, for several reasons.

• We get to get away from the dirt!


• We will get used to running on real matting


• The dogs will get used to running in a new spot, and be more prepared for our Tournament in August.


• Dogs (and handlers) will no longer have to deal with dirty tennis balls!

So now we will just be working on our seed times, and individual dog times, and some passing drills. I can't express how excited I am! Sasha is getting extremely excited as well, Anytime I say the F word (Flyball.. Not the bad one! lol) she gets way to excited and her ears perk up and she grabs for her fave teddy and waits for me to get ready.. Then I feel really bad because I'm disappointing her every time.. But not for Long!

The team, Which currently consists of Myself, Tony, Dave, Maria, Marilyn, and Cathy have been tirelessly fund raising our butts off trying to get the team ready to head to Lunenburg in August.

We have been pooling our ideas together to try and come up with some ideas to help us get to our goal even faster. So far we have been doing pretty well for ourselves if I do say so myself.

I am very excited about the upcoming racing year! Its going to be a big one for sure. I'll post some photos from class when they start up. :)

Happy racing everyone!!

Happy New Year!

Happy New year to everyone out there in Fog Dogs land. :)

I hope the holiday season was good to everyone, and I hope Santa Paws was good to the pups as well.

Just adding a quick update here, Nothing to serious.

Drop ins have been going great! This Sunday is the last one until April.

We have a lot of great fundraising ideas up our sleeves for our Lunenburg trip. I will update when everything is finalised.

Since I last posted, We have been on Out of the fog, http://nfldathleticdog.com/flyball/fogflyball.wmv , and we appeared in the local newspaper, on the front page of Saturday, January 9th issue, http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=316875&sc=83

So if you would like to check those out, feel free.

Well I think that is all for me for today.

I hope to see all sorts of new fresh faces in April for the new beginners classes.

Steph

Updates in the Fog Dogs Camp

Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to send everyone a quick message to give everyone a heads up on whats on the go in the Fog Dogs camp!

Well first, This past weekend was so much fun! It was without a doubt, one of the best weekends in a long time.

A HUGE thank you to Ms. Cheryl Steadman for coming down again to share her wonderfull brain with us, and give us more helpfull tips and ideas. The workshop went great, and everyone had a blast.

Then Sunday after class we had a get together at Dave and Maria's house, Where they had a LOVELY turkey dinner prepared. In attendance were Dave, Maria, Myself, Marilyn, Bill, Cheryl(our guest of honnor), Mike, Brianna, Tony and Jasmine(I hope I spelt that right! )

We had a wonderful feast and a chocolate fountain which was AMAZING!! haha, And we chatted, we watched the video we took Saturday at the workshop. Which everyone ejoyed I hope. Its good to actually watch our dogs from the view of a spectator.

One major decsion we decided on Sunday night was...
Were going to our FIRST TOURNIMENT!!!!

August 7 and 8th in Luninburge, NS. We are all pretty pumped for this!! I know I am for sure!! Its going to be a blast! We'll keep everyone updated on this.

Speaking of tourniments... We need to have our dogs CRN numbers before we leave guys, I just paid for Sasha's, So that makes Sasha and Mickey who now have CRN's.

We are also having drop in sessions starting on Nov. 8th. Which is also our Fun Trial day. Were going to have a fun trial but its going to be more of a fun day i should say. were going to have prizes and every dog of every skill level is invited. I will email out more when the details are finalized.
I think thats it for now guys,

If anyone has any questions, Please feel free to contact me.
Thanks
Steph

Wow! Long Time!!!

Hi everyone,

Its been forever since I updated this. Its been quite the great hetic year for the Fog Dogs!

Well first, In April we had our first workshop! Hosted by the lovely Cheryl Steadman from New Brunswick, and Just Push Play. Cheryl has been a great help to me in my Flyball career and I was honored that she was willing to come down and give us a workshop. She gave us lots of great advice, for training new dogs, increasing speed, improving swimmers turns, and just how to have fun as a team! She worked out butts off I gotta say!

There are some lovely photos posted by Dianne Ford:

It was without a doubt, One of the best days of Flyball ever!

Thanks a million again Cheryl for all your great wisdom and kindness!

We just finished up the last set of classes for this summer. We had three levels, Beginners, Interdemiate, and Advanced.

The beginners and intermediate dogs did wonderful!! I am so pleased with everyone and their dogs! I hope to see everyone in their next levels in September.

The new classes start on September 6. Beginners/Intermediate is from 5-6 and Advanced is frmo 6-7 and runs for 8 weeks. We still have spots available in the beginner level, So if you are interested in joining shoot the club an email. Were always welcoming new dogs and handlers!

We also have a fun trial planed for sometime in the fall. I will let you all know the details when I find them out.

Thanks Everyone!

Stephanie