Our Founders
In the early 1990’s, there were in existence only 2
flavors of agility: USDAA and Kramer. NADAC came
swiftly afterwards and then AKC. Kramer became UKC
Agility. Into this fledgling world of agility came some
stalwart souls from Kinder-Pup who had either seen
agility done at a demo or on TV or they had been to a
intro seminar and they wanted to continue.
There were 10 people in the first agility class, taught by Kim Duff. Within 6 months we were up to 20, many who stayed with us for many years.
The first agility dogs we had were all heavily obedience trained and Velcro to the max because of their training. The explosion of learning for humans about relationships, working confidently at a distance, teaching without correction, accepting that dog errors were only a reflection of human errors was so extreme that it could only be called life changing.
Our first agility dogs suffered the penalties of our ignorance in so many ways but perhaps the worst part of their lives is that for all of them, retraining happened way too frequently as we discovered better ways to teach and train and had to go back and undo and redo what had been previously taught. There is not one human who was with us then who does not crave the impossible dream of being able to have those first dogs back if only for an hour to share with them the legacy they helped create.
There is an old photo, faded now and getting harder to see, of the original dogs that started agility with us. There were other dogs that came along during the first year. These are the founders of PAWZAZZ: Blue indicates they have gone ahead of us….
Debi Hutchinson, Joppa & BG
Pam Sutterheim & Spaulding
Karen Koenig & Mohe
Lynn Sipe & Logan
Karen Chandler & Bud
Terry Wright & Kaji
Followed swiftly by:
Paula Goss & Emily
Jack Bonecutter & Gussie
Ginger Couch & Chelsea
Cindy Knowlton & Zena
Lucy Peacock & Radar
Lynn Sipe & Keegan
Teresa Robinson & Sailor
Debi Hutchinson & Gage
And these are the foundation dogs of PAWZAZZ. To them, honor beyond words.
There were 10 people in the first agility class, taught by Kim Duff. Within 6 months we were up to 20, many who stayed with us for many years.
The first agility dogs we had were all heavily obedience trained and Velcro to the max because of their training. The explosion of learning for humans about relationships, working confidently at a distance, teaching without correction, accepting that dog errors were only a reflection of human errors was so extreme that it could only be called life changing.
Our first agility dogs suffered the penalties of our ignorance in so many ways but perhaps the worst part of their lives is that for all of them, retraining happened way too frequently as we discovered better ways to teach and train and had to go back and undo and redo what had been previously taught. There is not one human who was with us then who does not crave the impossible dream of being able to have those first dogs back if only for an hour to share with them the legacy they helped create.
There is an old photo, faded now and getting harder to see, of the original dogs that started agility with us. There were other dogs that came along during the first year. These are the founders of PAWZAZZ: Blue indicates they have gone ahead of us….
Debi Hutchinson, Joppa & BG
Pam Sutterheim & Spaulding
Karen Koenig & Mohe
Lynn Sipe & Logan
Karen Chandler & Bud
Terry Wright & Kaji
Followed swiftly by:
Paula Goss & Emily
Jack Bonecutter & Gussie
Ginger Couch & Chelsea
Cindy Knowlton & Zena
Lucy Peacock & Radar
Lynn Sipe & Keegan
Teresa Robinson & Sailor
Debi Hutchinson & Gage
And these are the foundation dogs of PAWZAZZ. To them, honor beyond words.
©2008 PAWZAZZ Agility