Arizona Boston Terrier Rescue wants to encourage Boston owners to get their dogs involved in activities that are fun for human and canine. One such activity is dog agility (that is, teaching a dog to run a course made up of jumps, tunnels and other obstacles). With that goal in mind, AZBTR sponsored special awards for Bostons that participated in an agility competition, February 29-March 3, 2008, held at WestWorld in Scottsdale. Twelve Bostons and their owners from four states attended the event. Ten of them competed over our days, and between them they earned 30 qualifying scores and two titles. In 2007 eight Bostons attended the event, so this was a nice increase in participation. It was fun to see all of the Bostons running and winning, and it provided proof that Boston Terriers are hardy little athletes, not couch potatoes!

Ribbons were awarded to the human-dog teams with the highest number of qualifying scores and fastest Yards Per Second times:

Excellent B: Sandy Crook and Hattie from San Diego, CA (4 Qs). Gerald Grasso and Dylan from San Antonio, TX also had 4 Qs.

Excellent A: Laura Bays and Chance from Las Cruces, NM (2 Qs). Hokie Wiley and Betty Boop also had 2 Qs.

Novice B: Hokie Wiley and Mack, also from Las Cruces, NM (5 Qs)

Thanks to Sandy Crook, Melanie Magisos and Meghan Thomas for making the high point ribbons possible.