Maverick launching up to catch the Frisbee

Regional Skyhoundz Event

Hi there!

              Welcome to my website, My name is David, I live a little bit south of Riverside California with my pack of high drive Herding dogs.  I teach Disc Dogging also known as, Dog Frisbee. I've been an avid Disc Dog Competitor for the better part of 11-years and over the last three years have had over 250 students and their Canine Companions enrolled in my Dog Frisbee classes.

     When I'm not teaching, you might find me out competing in a local Skyhoundz, UFO event and/or doing Frisbee Demonstrations for local Animal Shelters Adoption Fairs/Events.  My other passion consumes a huge chunk of my time, and that is networking with Shelters and Rescue thru Top Gun Performance K9 Rescue, a "Herding Dog specific" operation. 

    Any time left over after that is dediated to working on our Agility Course. Sundance, also a McNab and my only Agility dog is a natural at Agility. This guy's not only "super-fast" but can change direction on a dime and give you 9-cents change! When he's not ripping around the course, he's looking for sheep to herd, which he's quite good at also.

    
            Sundance at 6-months old   

Sundance today, he finally grew into those ears!

 

(Below: Ace of Hearts at a local Skyhoundz competition)

Ace, above is a 3-year old red-tri Australian Shepherd, is retired from Frisbee Competitons but, helps out with our Demos as he loved being the clown while doing HUGE jumps,

And then there's Maverick, my 4-year old McNab (did I hear you say "McNab?" Never heard of them? Look under the McNab Shepherd x 3 (three different but the same history lessons) tab.   Maverick has had his picture in the Orange County Register numerous times and stole the show in a Time-Warner "On-Demand" TV special featuring our Disc Dog Class.

     After a 2007 Skyhoundz Regional where Maverick placed “First Overall” in the Time Trial Expert Class Competition, winning the 2007 USDDN Open Freestyle Class at the Wags for Wishes Competition. After almost a year off from Competition, Maverick is back! He decided he didn't want to be just my valuable assistant in my Disc Dog training classes, but a top competitior. In his first competition of 2009 Maverick and I finished third Open, barely missing second by .4 points! Our next event was in Cypress and this time we did finish in second! Maverick has retired for the 2010 season, so I will be busy helping out my students who show up for competitons and not taking our own too seriously, having fun is number one! Maverick hasn't given up on activites outside of the competion ring and last July, the Orange County Register showed up to do an article on the Frisbee Fun for Fido class, Maverick was featured in a photo spread that covered over half a page! But, Maverick’s biggest love? He absolutely shines when performing for an audience of kids. Here's a video from our first  performance last year. A big word of thanks goes out to the Fifthians for recording this!

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            (Calamity Jane pictured below)

Calamity making her first "in competition catch! 

Calamity was the only dog I had currently competing in Disc Dog, and she has now been joined by... (drum roll please!)

 

and now Introducing: "Air Abby"

After a long and heartfelt search looking at over 200 different dogs in Foster homes, I came across this 14-month old (as of April 2010) little girl in a Aussie Rescue in Cincinatti, Ohio. Stephanie Meyers was kind enough to go "check her out" and see what kind of Disc Dog drive she had, her report was favorable. Abby only had mild interest in the disc but her strong ball drive kept my interest high in her.  Feeling a strong attraction for this little Aussie, I decided to follow those feelings and had her transported out to California. Her first day here was a busy one, she had to meet the gang, go play in the corral with everyone and then made a quick trip over to Julia's where she displayed her ability to catch a Frisbee over 30 times before finally taking a break! So, cards are on the table, now it's up to me to teach her how to compete! Will keep you posted! Check out the link below to see her progress!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvKGs1-Nf2U

ABBY UPDATE!!!

After having her for almost six weeks, we entered Abby in her very first competition, not just a local event, but a Shyhoundz "Regional" (lots of teams from up and down the California Coast, and Arizona) there were a total of 42 teams, Abby and I finished 16th in the Open Freestyle Class! Here's the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QV3eakP_dE

As you can tell, we're both still learning about one another. This was a very encouraging start and it will only get better from here! I promise to keep you updated!