Does your dog love running, jumping, and playing? Do they have tons of energy? Maybe you’ve heard about the exciting sport of dog agility and are ready to give it a try, but aren’t sure that you’ll ever want to compete. In our Fun-gility classes we teach the basics of the sport, without the competitive angle.
These classes are all about you and your dog having maximum fun, while learning basic obstacles and agility handling skills. This class is perfect for people trying agility for the first time, or those with retired agility dogs or older dogs who would like something fun to do together. Once you and your dog have mastered the targeted obstacles, you’ll be ready to join an Ongoing Fun-gility group to keep the fun rolling!
If after playing agility, you decide you would like to prepare for competition, we can direct you to our Great Agility Program!
- To join Intro to Fun-gility
- Minimum age is 11 months.
- Manners 2
- If your dog hasn’t been in the facility in 6 months or more, a new Class Readiness Evaluation is required.
- Completion of an Agility Readiness Evaluation
- To join Ongoing Fun-gility
- Completion of Intro to Fun-gility and proficiency on all skills taught
- Instructor Approval
- Retired agility dogs, and those who have trained elsewhere, are welcome. Just shoot us an email (info@whatagreatdog.com) to get approval prior to the class starting.
- Dogs must be current on vaccinations.
- For Intro to Fungility
- Enrollment – six consecutive weekly 50 minute class meetings at your designated day/time.
- Class Fee – $210
- For Ongoing Fungility
- $120 for each set of 4 consecutive class meetings, each one hour long.
- Review Ongoing Class Policies prior to enrolling.
- To drop the class, 1 WEEK WRITTEN NOTICE is required. Please send contact information to info@whatagreat.dog
NOTE: If no class times display below, please contact us to join an “interest list”. You will then be notified when a new class is scheduled.
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Your Instructors
Specialty & Pet Manners Trainer
Gabi Vannini CPDT-KA
Gabi Vannini CPDT-KA joined the WAGD staff in fall 2018. She teaches barn hunt, agility, conformation, rally and manners. She is an AKC CGC, trick, ACT test, temperament test and farm dog evaluator. Gabi competes in a variety of dog sports with her own dogs and has titled in obedience, agility, rally, conformation, lure coursing, dock diving, barn hunt, tricks […]
Katianna Pihakari
Katianna joined the WAGD trainer team as a part-time agility instructor in 2023. She is a long-time agility competitor and previously trained seeing eye dogs. Katianna started attending agility classes in 2013 with the new love of her life, Tonza, a Dachshund/Cocker Spaniel mix. Additionally, she and Tonza earned their therapy dog certifications, and participated in local therapy dog programs for […]
Agility Trainer
Ryan Shaw CPDT-KA
Ryan joined WAGD in May of 2011, teaching Agility and Pet Manners classes. Ryan worked in the commercial construction industry for 22 years. When she earned her CPDT-KA (Certified Professional Dog Trainer) in 2013, Ryan left the corporate world to pursue her dream of working with and training dogs as a full-time profession. Ryan’s utilizes positive reinforcement training methods, including […]