Most dog owners know of the ball retrieve game, and other hunting games. Another popular dog game is hunting snacks in the backyard, you hide the treats. It isn't hard to keep most dogs occupied. For those who are a little harder there are a few dog sports.

In fact there are at least three canine sports that you can do with your dog. They are Flying Disc, Flyball, and Agility. All three require high energy and speed, and most are quite fun for everyone.

Flying Disk

This sport depends a lot on the dog. Athletic fetchers are best and this is another sport border collies excel at. In fact border collies excel at all canine sports. Australian Shepherds are also very good.

Links on flying disc:

http://www.discdog.com/ -- National Capital Air Canines

Flyball

The basics of the sport. A dog is taught to go over four hurdles, hit a box that shoots out a ball and run all the way back over the hurdles. This sport is a kind of relay race, with four or five dogs on a team. The team with the shortest time wins. Like other dog sports Border Collies excel at this game.

Links on flyball:

http://www.flyball.org/ -- NAFA
http://www.flyball.com/ -- Flyball.com
http://www.i-flyball.com/ -- i-Flyball

Canine Agility

Agility is a sport where dogs compete to see who can run an obstacle course correctly in the shortest time. The courses consist of different obstacles, the a-frame, dog walk, seesaw, jumps, and tunnels constitute the brunt of the course. Points are taken away as the dogs make faults, which include missed contact points or knocked jumps. There are also points taken away if a dog refuses an obstacle or falls off the pause table.

For more information on Canine Agility and other dog sports here are some links.

http://www.dogpatch.org/agility/ -- The Dog Agility Page

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