Is there a list of agility groups that I can look at or can anybody recommend any?

For those that can remember all the problems I have been having with my neighbours dogs over the past 18mths and them being locked outside for up to 14hrs a day. They have placed a free to good home advert for the extremely high energy and completely untrained heinz 157(!!) portraying it as a lovely family dog. I'm worried that some unsuspecting family with take him and get a very nasty suprise and he will end up being past from pillar to post for the rest of his life. Or god forbid end up where a lot of "free to good home" dogs are ending up at the moment.

I'm considering taking him on and training him with the aim of heading towards agility. I can see the immense untapped potential this boy has if he isn't screamed at constantly and has someone to focus and harness his play and please drive. He could be phenomenal.

Go for it! http://www.waggawuffins.com/

Definitely, recommend waggawuffins! (and where are you and whose yer annoying neighbour.. *nosey* )

A couple of my pups have been to the puppy classes at Waggawuffins and have done extremely well, so that seems to be the front runner at the moment. I'm in Rochdale. The advert for him is on P4H's. I truely believe this dog was born for agility. He is ridiculously high energy and because he has only been walked a handful of times and is locked out all the time of course the poor chap is going to cause chaos and be bouncing off the walls. He is only 18mths and he has a huge play and please drive. He just needs some training and somebody to focus and harness his energy. It's a momumental decision whether I take him on as I have 3 dogs of my own who live in harmony, a 1yr old daughter, 3mths pregnant with our 2nd and am working towards a place Ive been offered on a large breed display team travelling around doing shows next year. I would have to class him as a foster I think to get him started on the right track with the aim of somebody who wants a high energy/agility dog to hopefully take over. But I think he has more of a chance coming to me than your average joe public looking on that site for a free xbreed would give him.

I think the main competition agility clubs in that area are Newton Heath and Wilmslow (check agilitynet.com for more details of these) as those are the two clubs my friend in Bolton goes to.  Good luck with agility if you do take him on - or with any dog :-)

Thankyou Penny. Ive had a look on Newton Heaths website and there is no phone number but there is an agility class there tonight. I think I will pop along and see if anybody would be willing to talk to me about starting him.