List_of_dog_sports

Dog sports are activities that involve dogs.

Training a retrieve in Schutzhund, a dog sport.

There is much discussion about what exactly defines a sport for dogs. Some issues:

• If a human companion is not actively involved, is it actually a sport? Take greyhound racing, for example, or hunting from, say, a duck blind, from which the dog retrieves the game.
• Is any activity a sport? For example, a conformation show, where the handler and dog walk or trot around a ring for a judge to evaluate the dog\'s appearance and structure.

This list is intended only to represent anything that anyone is likely to refer to as a dog sport, not to argue its validity as sport.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

• Agility
• Bikejoring
• Canicross
• Carting
• Competition obedience
• Disc dog
• Dock Diving (or Dock Dog)
• Dog hiking (or "Pack Hiking")
• Dog sledding (not racing)
• Earthdog trials
• Field trials
• Flyball
• Mushing
• Musical canine freestyle; Canine Dressage; Healwork to Music
• Obedience training
• Protection sports (including Schutzhund and Ring sports)
• Pulka
• Rally obedience
• Scent Hurdling
• Scootering
• Sheepdog trials (or Herding)
• Sighthound racing, including Greyhound racing, coursing, and lure coursing
• Skijoring
• Sled dog racing
• Tracking trials (see also Tracking (dog))
• Weight pulling

--See also--

• ((Greyhound racing))
• ((Hunting))

External links

• Sportwaffen K9
• International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP)
• Dog Sports Magazine
• Dog Sports Medicine

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