Countryside Agility is a 37,000 sq ft, climate-controlled, indoor facility located in Erie, PA which
06/12/2025
Just a reminder to get your Barn Hunt Entries in for the 4 day BH trail July 10-13 in Erie Pa! WE will plan ot have a picnic one of the days and as always you can save money by camping out on our indoor turf field.
Thursday will start with 2 rounds of CZ8 beginning at 3 PM followed by 2 rounds of masters starting at 5 PM
Fri Sat and Sun will offer 2 rounds of every level including CZ8
Premium is available at www,countrysideagility.com . mail in or
enter and pay online at www.Secreterrier.com
See you there !
Secreterrier makes it easy for competitors to enter dog shows and trials online, and for show secretaries to manage all aspects of their events
06/11/2025
Gordon Setter Club of America is hosting an agility trial at CAPS June 27-28-29..come earn those last chance points for the agility invitational!
2 of our favorite judges Ben Gibbs and Rick Mullen will be officiating! Guaranteed to be fun :)
All classes offered all 3 days ! Still room all 3days we just opened up more online entries .....sorry so many entered the last few days we had to add more in!
Enter online at labtested.com or send entries to Countryside.
premium available at www.countrysideagility.com
Countryside Agility:Agility Training, Competitions & ServicesCountryside Agility is a 34,000 sq ft, climate-controlled, indoor facility with rubber in-fill turf located in Erie, PA. We support the growing sport of dog agility in all aspects including: group & private lessons, USDAA & AKC trials, tri...
06/05/2025
Agility runthru's at Countryside this Saturday June 7th starting at 3:30 PM . Standard course with all contacts and weaves . Any level welcome
Sign up when you get there .
$10 1st run $5 additional run same dog
Run the course ,practice what skills you need like start line stays -contacts or just take a puppy or green dog in the ring for the experience !
04/21/2025
Exciting news ! We finally are able to offer Foundations for Agility classes again!
We will be starting 4 new classes and we have a few openings left!
Classes are starting in 2 weeks and offered at 4 different times :
Mon at 4:30, Tue at 8 PM . Thur morning at 9 am and 10:15 am
6 week class is $130 Any age dog can join this class , This a basic foundations class teaching you skills needed for your actual agility training . There is no jumping or anything with height that would harm a puppy or young dog. Older dog are also welcome!, Agility
is a great way to let them expend energy and keep their minds busy! And a lot of fun for you both!
if interested please email Denise at [email protected] for more info and to sign up !
02/28/2025
Glad to see it addressed, especially at breed shows but i think they need to reevaluate the 30 days !
Dealing with Misconduct – New Discipline Guidelines Offenses & Penalties - Effective
February 26, 2025
The health and wellbeing of all dogs at AKC events is paramount. After a review of the AKC Discipline Guidelines and in consultation with AKC’s Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. Jerry Klein, the AKC Board of Directors approved two new offenses and associated penalties for individuals that knowingly bring dogs that have been diagnosed or exposed to communicable diseases on AKC event grounds. This change is not intended to punish the individual that arrives at an event with a healthy dog that subsequently becomes ill during the events and immediately removes the dog from the grounds. This change is intended to provide Event Committees with authority and recourse should an exhibitor knowingly bring a dog onto the event grounds that has been diagnosed or exposed to a communicable disease, putting other dogs on the grounds of the AKC event at risk. The Event Committee would need to have proof (e.g., diagnosis from a veterinarian, verbal acknowledgement by the exhibitor) of the diagnosis prior to attending the event in order to uphold the charges. The AKC Discipline Guidelines on the AKC website and in the Dealing with Misconduct at American Kennel Club Events booklet will be updated to reflect the new offenses and penalties listed below:
Inappropriate Treatment of Animals
Knowingly bringing a dog on event grounds within 30 days of displaying the first clinical signs of communicable disease.
Mitigated: 3mo/$300 Standard: 6 mo/$500 Aggravated: Up to life/up to $10,000
Knowingly bringing a dog on event grounds within 14 days of it being in contact with another dog displaying signs of communicable disease.
Mitigated: 1 mo/$100 Standard: 3mo/$300 Aggravated: Up to life/up to $10,000
Agility Regulation Change – Transferring of Points
The AKC Board of Directors at its February 2025 meeting approved allowing individuals to transfer points and QQs acquired towards their dog’s MACH title to the earning of a PACH title through a one-time application process effective July 2, 2025.
02/26/2025
Just a heads up that the Butler Dog Training Club agility trial being held March 7-8-9 is closing tommorrow Wed Feb 26
Inga Hooper is our judge ,,always a favorite here!
Enter thru labtested or at Countryside
02/26/2025
We have just added a puppy foundations group last minute to our seminar with Theresa Rector . Mon 3-6 Pm Mar 3 at Countryside
Good for any age up to a year ,,,, we still have 2 spots open if interested . Contact me asap if interested
02/19/2025
So glad to see this finally happening!
02/17/2025
Looking for a great seminar to boost your skills during this cold weather ?? Theresa Rector is coming back to Countryside on Mar 3-4-5 . Learn how to beef up your skills and get some ideas of one jump work you can do indoors ,
Mon and Wed 2 sessions a day 9-1 and 2-6
All seminars will work on your handling skills . she is especially great at improving your blind courses as well as tightening up turns with other skills and working on timing of ALL the skills! Layering is always covered as well ,
Tue 9-1 Skills an drills ISC proofing on sequences
Tue 2-6 Working all the skills on ISC coursework
Tue features ISC handling skills like backside slices and wraps . ,layering , threadle wraps and slices , distance sends and more !
Just a reminder that our APOTC agility trial is closing on Wed!!
Feb 28 Mar 1/2 at Countryside
One of our favorite judges Ross Johnson is judging !
If you love wide open smooth running courses come join us!!
Fri Exc/Masters STD JWW and FAST Prem JWW & STD plus T2B
Sat .All levels of STD and JWW + Prm STD and T2B
Sun All levels of STD and JWW plus FAST and T2B
😎Come spend the weekend on green grass with warm temps 😁
02/06/2025
Countryside will be hosting a run thru after the trial on Sat Jan 8th! small trial; so should start around 3 , sign up when you get here , We will be using the timers and horns to give the real trial fee l:-) Also i will be in ring to help as needed ,
$10 1st run $5 additional ,
Use your time as you need to , run a full course, practice start lines or contacts , or introduce a young dog to sitting on the line with lots of excitement going on !
12/14/2024
Deanna and her cattle dog Kimber laying down a smooth Standard Q this afternoon at AKC Invitationals! Way to go team! 👏
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Countryside Agility was started in 1994 by Denise Thomas as an agility training business and agility trial secretary service. In 2002 we moved to Edinboro, PA - leasing 20,000 square feet of space in the local mall plaza. After twelve years of growth, we purchased the 34,000 square foot facility on 38th Street in Erie, PA to allow for business expansion and easy access to the thruways for our out-of-town customers. Thanks to an extensive renovation (and the support of many volunteers!) we moved into our current location in January 2015. This location has allowed us plenty of space, both inside and outside, and the most recent addition of an indoor heated swimming pool for the dogs, has finalized Denise’s vision of an agility dream center!
Denise has trained and shown dogs since she was nine years old. She started a grooming and boarding business while in college but after working for GE for a short period of time, she quickly realized that the corporate world was not for her, and returned to her first love - DOGS! For fifteen years she operated The Village Groomer and Countryside Kennels, as well as teaching obedience classes. She has bred Champion Springer Spaniels and Smooth Fox Terriers while successfully showing various breeds professionally for many years in the conformation and obedience rings. But once Denise was introduced to the sport of agility - it quickly became her passion - and after teaching agility for several years, she opened the Edinboro facility to train and host trials.
With the sport quickly growing, AKC became involved, and in 1995 Denise became one of the first AKC judges and actively judged for 13 years. Along the way, she became an AKC licensed trial secretary and currently hosts around 50 trials a year for Clubs in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Her husband, Howard got involved building equipment and runs his own business renting and selling agility equipment.
Denise has trialed with Shelties, Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, Portuguese Water Dogs, Doberman Pinschers and Smooth Fox Terriers, earning 27 MACH titles, and has competed in 20 finals at USDAA and AKC nationals. Her top honor was being selected for the AKC sponsored FCI Agility World team in 2009. Denise and Border Collie “Zippity” traveled to Dornbirn, Austria to compete on the USA Agility Team in the individual and team competitions.
Countryside Agility is a state-of-the-art agility center designed especially for holding agility classes and trials. It is a large building, well-lit, with rubber infill turf for maximum safety. There is tons of space inside and out for warming up dogs and has become a popular place with the agility community hosting students and competitors traveling from New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. It has truly been a dream come true to watch everyone enjoying themselves and we are truly blessed to have such a huge agility family to share our dream with!
