PetUtopia wishes to thank all of the members of the Dogs Gone Dancing group, Sherwood Dog Training Club, the Mixed Breed Dog Club, Behave Canine Solutions that volunteered their time to demonstrate these great sports!

We also wish to thank Andie Petkus, of Andie Petkus Photography, Colleen from Wellness, Homes for Hounds Greyhound Rescue, Marian Clark from Heritage Dog Training, Rubi Sullivan from Heal, and the Veterinary Specialty Blood Bank for participating in this fun day!

The doctors from the Veterinary Specialty Blood Bank arrives.

Denise from Behave arrives, coffee in hand!

The Greyhounds arrive!

Rubi is ready to provide complimentary massages.

Colleen from Wellness is ready to meet and greet ….

Canine Freestyle Dancing Demo

Linda Armentrout and Beau

Beau is ready to start their canine freestyle dance routine.

Linda and Beau start our demos with a canine freestyle dance routine.

Beau weaves behind Linda’s leg ….

When he’s finished with this maneuver, Beau will have woven through Linda’s legs in a figure 8.

Beau dances forward through Linda’s legs

You can see he’s enjoying this dance!

They wrap up their routine with a bow!

On the Ball Demonstration

Bobbie Lyons, of Pawsitive Performance, and Force

Force, and his mom, Bobbie, showed us how to exercise your dog with a therapy ball!

Bobbie demonstrates how to get a dog up on the ball.

Force sits up on a stool!

He puts his own special ‘paw print’ on this maneuver.

He jumps up into Mom’s arms!

He balances on a Bosu ball!

Force knows his right from his left. He turns right on a step.

Force sits up on a core disc.

Force pivots around his front legs.

Canine Freestyle Dancing Demonstration

Leah Atwood and Honda

Honda is ready for his dancing debut!

Ready to start!

Honda hops back!

He jumps on Leah’s back!

Leah is pleased with his fabulous freestyle dancing debut.

Competitive Obedience Demonstration

Sherwood Dog Training Club

Deborah Wood & Pogo, Jill Miller & MeMe, and Joeanne Butler & Tilly

Tilly is ready to take her turn.

Tilly goes over a jump.

Debbie calls out “Leave your dog.”

The dogs sit and wait while ….

the owners go shopping!

MeMe waits for Jill’s command.

Jill sends MeMe out for the first glove.

MeMe retrieves each glove in order …

The last glove is retrieved.

Debbie will send Pogo out to pick up a specific article.

The articles are scattered about the floor.

Pogo delicately searches for Mom’s scent on the right article.

Disk Dog Demo

Behave’s Kayla Ross with Tilt and Split

Split is a puppy in training.

Kayla told us her dogs were tired because they just came from filming for Animal Planet!

So, of course, we were all wondering what they were like at the BEGINNING of the day!!

Tilt is really getting into this now!

Kayla wears a neoprene vest so that Tilt can launch from her back!

He goes into the air like he has wings!

Agility Demonstration

with Lynn deBeauclair & Ring, and Stephanie Collingsworth & Sable

Ring goes up and over a jump during an agility demonstration.

This boy loves agility!

Sable goes up and over a jump in the agility demonstration.

Ring waits for the command, then races through the tunnel!

Andie Petkus took some great portraits as well!

Atlas

Bella

Heaven and Zip

Tilly

Sable

Pogo

Tilt and Split

Honda