Are You Ready for an AAC Trial? The Very Basics

Your dog must be have an AAC number and be over 18 months old.

To enter Standard runs and all Games, your dog should be able to perform all the obstacles successfully. Your dog should be able to do a simple 17-obstacle course with no faults in the specified standard course time [SCT] if you want to Qualify and have this run count towards a title. Obstacles include a dog-walk, a see-saw, an A-frame, a table with a 5 second down, tunnels, jumps, double jumps, spread jumps, weave poles, a chute, and a tire. In most cases, if you don’t know what any of these obstacles are, this probably means your dog has no experience with that obstacle and therefore doing these runs would be unfair to the dog.

In the Jumpers game, there are only jumps and tunnels. So, in terms of obstacles, your dog only needs to be able to take jumps and tunnels. Sounds easier than the other runs, right? Well, it is – sort of. But. the dogs run VERY fast in this game so it all about you getting to the right place at the right time to make sure the dog takes the correct obstacle. A lot of fun!