Why did we start a Flyball team?
We were looking for a dog sport that our dogs could have real fun with. We had done competitive obedience with our dogs, had played with back yard agility and were seriously considering agility but they weren’t quite what we were looking for. Not enough joyful abandon for the dogs in obedience, agility looked to be more fun for the dog, but perhaps still a bit too much structure and dependence on the handler. Let the dog get out there and do what its trained to do – something simple yet fast, fun and competitive for the dogs. In April of ’99 we saw our first Flyball tournament and we knew that this was what we had been looking for. We investigated joining what was the only existing Flyball team in Nova Scotia, but after some inquiries we decided to start a team on our own. At the time we were heavily involved in volunteer work with a local kennel club so we arranged to turn over fees to the club in exchange for the use of mats and other considerations. We worked up a set of lesson plan
