AHA Hoopers

26/04/2026

26/04/2026

Some of today's dogs from beginner classes.

22/04/2026

A few of the AHA hoopers boys competing on Sunday.

A big well done to Fingal for getting a 2nd place 🥈 in his Touch n Go run, 3rd 🥉 in his tunnellers, and a further 2 clear round rosettes in his barrellers and the 4 nations cup qualifier.

Congratulations to Sancho for his 3rd place 🥉rosette in barrellers. People and cars and new places make him nervous so it's great that he's even making it to a competition and to do so well is fantastic. He loves his hoopers.

And Suess, 1st place 🥇 in his Hoopers run and a clear round rosette for the 4 nations cup qualifier (had his maximum points for the run but pushed into 3rd place on his time)

09/04/2026

Congratulations to Hamish for passing his Bronze Good Hoopers Award and Suess for 2x 1st place at his 1st competition of the year 🤩

27/03/2026

Congrats to Motsi for passing her foundation GHA 🤩

17/03/2026

Pippin has done fab in the last couple of weeks, passing her foundation Good Hoopers Award last week and her Bronze this week.

She has had some challenges and missed a lot of her classes due to a longterm autoimmune blood disorder and the treatments that involves.

However she is still keen to work and learn new skills. She is loving doing her hoopers 💕

13/03/2026

Course practice for some competition level dogs

08/03/2026

Suess, 10 year old GSD - the joy of Hoopers is it is kind to a dogs joints as all flatwork and low impact.

The only challenge we have as a team at the moment is his intermittent deafness - his hearing was back when we did this last week, but gone again since 😬

08/03/2026

Good Hoopers awards passed today, 1x Silver GHA and 1x Foundation GHA, well done to both 🎉🥳

27/02/2026

Congratulations to Haggis, breezing through his Silver Good Hoopers Award today 🎉

22/02/2026

Sancho - Silver GHA

21/02/2026

I want to do a special write up for one of the dogs that attends hoopers classes.

Hoopers is a highly inclusive dog sport. One of it's selling points is the fact it is low impact so kind to dogs joints, suitable for older dogs or dogs that can not compete in higher impact sports any more like flyball or agility due to injury.
It is also suited to handlers with limited mobility due to distance handling being the aim.

However Whisky here was actually recently diagnosed as being blind. 😎

Having noticed some anomalies, (especially the length of time it took for him to find his treats in hoopers classes 😅 ) ... his owner mentioned it to the vet, they carried out some tests, referred to a specialist .....turns out his optic nerves aren't correctly formed and he has advanced retinal degeneration.

He can likely see light and dark / shadows and it is enough for him to still enjoy taking part in hoopers.

He hides it very well, both at hoopers and in the house, likely because he was born with it he has adapted and overcome 💕 hard to believe it if it wasn't for the specialists report, he really is a superstar.

We are still playing about with what helps him 'see' better (eg hoops against grass or sand)
If anyone has experience with blind dogs or dogs with limited vision partaking in dog sport I'd be very interested to hear your experiences.💕

Meanwhile I'm sure you'll agree he is doing a fantastic job 🤩