Run Your Tail Off Agility

04/22/2025

Don't forget to check out your photos from this weekend!! Beau & Arrow Images really outdid themselves! Look at these action shots! 🤩🤩🤩

04/20/2025

Today will be another amazingly fun day at the spring CPE trial. Make sure you schedule your dog massage appointment with Jeanie Ward.

04/20/2025

We are so HOPPY to have had such a great first day of our Spring CPE Agility Trial 2025l!!! Our amazing Judge Iris Smith really HOPPED to it to get everyBUNNY in as we had 356 runs today!! We are EGG-cited to have so many PEEPS that have grown to love CPE in GA!! You all make it worth while!! See you all again tomorrow!!!🌷 🐰🐣🐰🐣🐰🌷

04/16/2025

I wish this was a little more timely and that I had one ready for viewing at the trial this weekend, but it was such a feat to create! We had SO MANY ENTRIES ****90 DOGS**** in our 2024 Dogwarts: School of Whizzardy Yearbook!! I am just floored at how awesome you all are and took to this concept!! We will have a yearbook at our July 2025 trial for you all to sign! But for now, please enjoy and you can digitally sign your page your here!

I had several requests from people interested in purchasing a yearbook. If you would like one, please let me know and I'll get you the details! You can email me at [email protected]! Please email only as the messenger function on business pages is not great! Thanks!!

And a big thanks and shoutout to Beau & Arrow Images for getting so many amazing candid shots of our teams and our costume contest! You are the best!!

04/14/2025

We are busy as bunnies getting hippity hoppity ready for our trial this Easter weekend! Just a reminder-- you can still enter and you can even enter the day of the show! However you will need to get a CPE ID #! There is still time to register at cpe.dog! Also, if you want to enter the day of the show, please arrive at 7:15am so I can get you entered! Looking forward to a great weekend with all my peeps!!

02/13/2025

I was just saying the other day, "I can't make my dog do it. I have to make him want to do it." Then I came across this lovely post!! Don't forget, you are the conduit to your dog's training. It's up to you how they learn to do something!

"Stress for dogs, often comes from the teacher, not the task.
For some dogs, the resentment for the phase of work that was forced upon them, stays with them and could have been avoided if the handler had changed their approach. For example, if you make a new concept difficult, even inadvertently, such as, having expectations of how quickly your dog should learn, how proficient he should be, the wrong set-up or if you try to force behavior, it could be that you are creating the stress that your dog then associates with that task."

One of the most powerful steps you can take as a trainer is to change your mindset from,
‘How can I get my dog to do it’ to
‘How can I get my dog to Want to do it’—

Stress for dogs, often comes from the teacher, not the task.
For some dogs, the resentment for the phase of work that was forced upon them, stays with them and could have been avoided if the handler had changed their approach.
For example, if you make a new concept difficult, even inadvertently, such as,
having expectations of how quickly your dog should learn, how proficient he should be, the wrong set-up
or if you try to force behavior, it could be that you are creating the stress that your dog then associates with that task.
—At the onset of training, it’s extremely important to differentiate, is the training issue one you can change VS. is it a genetic predisposition, that you can improve and manage but not organically alter.

Trying to force a dog to ‘push through’ an issue that stems from their genetics (ie too much eye, inherently wide, inherently fearful etc) is almost always to the detriment of the dog.
Instead, this is when you need knowledge and experience to help your dog or the self awareness to seek help from an expert.

Just like people, dogs can get bored when you do the same thing too often,
frustrated when it’s too arduous or disheartened when too often being told ‘you’re wrong’.

Instead of trying to accelerate your dogs training timeline, focus on your consistency, development and improvement as a teacher.
It's your continuous effort to adjust to your dogs response and body language that will help your dog become the best he can be.
Handlers sometimes find themselves waiting...for the day when they, win the competition, succeed at “X” , are acknowledged by their peers, or other.
Don’t let the pursuit of tomorrow diminish the joy of today, for you or your dog.
macraeway.com

12/15/2024

The Snooker 51 Club was huge! So many great runs. We had to break out the second Fickle Flamingo of Fate.

12/15/2024

It’s day 3 of the Grinchmas holiday CPE agility trial. It may be cold and rainy outside, but inside the dogs are running hot and the RYTO team is keeping things humming along.

12/14/2024

No Q? No problem. At RYTO you can still win the cutest ribbons in agility — perfectly Grinch themed for this Merry Grinchmas CPE agility trial.

12/14/2024

How do we stay ahead of schedule? Amazing course builders, that’s how.

12/13/2024

The RYTO CPE Agility holiday trial has begun. We do take day-of entries so if you have a CPE number and want to join the fun, c’mon down to Radda's K9 Campus.

12/11/2024

If someone stole your Christmas, I feel bad for you son... but

THERE IS STILL TIME LEFT to join the RYTO CPE Agility Holiday Trial this weekend at Radda's K9 Campus in Talking Rock, GA! We are still taking entries until Thursday night and will be taking Day of Show entries as well! Please note that if you want to play Day of Show, you will need to have a CPE ID Number, so sign up now at https://cpe.dog/members/ if you have not done so yet!

We will have a number of holiday fun events going on and we even have yummy striped holiday-themed CANDY CANE C-ATCH bars!! If you're up for a title, you won't want to miss these!!

You can find the premium for our trial here:https://cpe.dog/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AG12132024GARunYourTailOffAgility.pdf

09/14/2024

Special bars aren’t only for Champions here at RYTO! We have the cutest Level bars for those of us moving along our agility journey — like our very own Beau & Arrow Images. Congratulations on moving on up!!

09/14/2024

Where has the time gone!? Can you believe that it’s RYTO’s official 2-year CPE agility trial anniversary? Thank you to everyone who continues to make CPE the most fun and enjoyable day at agility evahhhh. We couldn’t do it without you and look forward to December when we’ll do it all again!