FLYBALL: The Gambler's

Flyball is a dog team relay sport: Four dogs and their handlers, and up to two alternates, make up one team. Two teams at a time race each other: Each dog on each team takes a turn running down a 51-foot course over a set of four hurdles, releasing a tennis ball from a flyball box, and racing back over the hurdles with the ball. The first team to send and return all four dogs without error wins the heat. We've heard that flyball was created by a group of Californians in the late 1960s as a way to entertain themselves and their dogs. It was formalized as a competitive sport in the 1980s, and now encompasses more than 1,100 active teams in the U.S. and Canada -- and other teams in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Europe. In the United States, there are two active flyball leagues: the North American Flyball League (NAFA®) and the United Flyball League International (U-Fli).

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Pets & Animals

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• Flyball
• U-FLI
• Dog
• Relay
• Aflac
• Outdoor
• Games
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• collie
• bull
• stafford
• terriers
• whippet
• greyhound
• fast

[toree117]

What a great ad for the sport. Well done, and fantastic dogs! Nice to see good people and good dogs, thank you for posting.

[MsDancer4life]

heyyyy, whip looks great! I love watching Emma run...

-Meg