First doggie olympics at Florida K9 Sports, Myakka City, FL.
Photo-Feature Doggie Olympics Florida K9 Sports Myakka City, FL. August 18th, 2024
Florida K9 Sports hosted their first Doggie Olympics this last weekend at their Myakka City, FL. home. It was an astounding success by great response of everyone in attendance. With a mixture of dock diving, agility and disc games to challenge the many pups and their humans, there was plenty to do a game for everyone to enjoy.
Disc Dog Games
Disc Dog games have been around about as long as there's been Frisbees and dogs. In more recent years hybrid agility and disc dog sports have evolved in leagues like UpDog in North America and abroad.
The only real requirement to enter is enthusiasm and a high prey drive dog. You don't even need to be a great disc thrower as most games allow "rollers" where you simply toss the disc across the ground on one edge.
With Toss and Fetch (or variants) being the most common game. A simple test of how far can your dog catch a disc, and how many times in a determined time period. To mix things up, a combination of agility hurdles, hoops and tunnels can add to the challenge and combined with a disc pursuit makes for some of the most exciting games.
Dock Diving
Dock Diving may be one the the U.S.A. most original sports. Although international interest is growing, this is a dog sport born in rural America and first seen by the general public as an oddity on old cable hunting and fishing channels as a novel story piece to break up endless discussions on best camouflaged and newest lures. Since then a few "official" leagues have merged and standardized the game.
When once the docks were actual docks and the dogs were jumping into ponds, todays Dock Diving it typically a forty foot dock and forty foot long by five foot deep pool.
Ever evolving efforts have been made to ensure safety for the dogs competing and some standard of measures to allow for fair competition between various dogs. Every league has their own standards and it is a widely debated topic.
Florida K9 Sports
Mobile Dock
RV: Dry camping only.
ADA Porta Potty
“Our goal at Florida K9 Sports is to ensure a safe, fun environment and experience for handler and dog.”
Deep in rural Florida sits the state’s newest Dock Diving venue at Florida K9 Sports. Owner Jay Nichols moved his mobile dock and operations in 2021 from Montana to Myakka City, Florida. The location is several acres tucked in beside a blueberry farm and with sparse woods, provides a flat open field of big skies. Jay’s background in dog handling and training has been mostly with search and rescue and bomb detection dogs. Dock diving has been a great change of pace and opportunity to provide his dogs with additional challenges while having a fun time.
This 5-acre plot is both home and business to Jay and Wendy Nichols and their own dogs. Jay is actively pursuing a solution to offer wheelchair access to the dock, and we will be watching for this exciting development. There is no specific disabled parking, but parking and easy access is plentiful. There are no RV hookups and there is room for “dry” camping on site.The venue is planning to add UpDog Challenge (Disc Dog games) in 2024.
Wrapping Up
Dock diving provides a great exception and with numerous locations throughout the state and many now embracing the Hero Dogz program to provide special attention to the disabled, 1st responders and military veterans.
Dock diving is fast growing to be a primary game for the lives of both dogs and humans though opening their doors and sincerely caring that you and your pups have full and active lives.
The folks at Florida K9 Sports are heavily connected to the services and have first hand shared experiences that makes this a great opportunity to come get wet with your own Bad Azz Dogz.
HERO DOGZ
More information for disabled 1st responder and military veterans.
Do your dog a huge favor and take them somewhere new!
Our core mission here at Bad Azz Dogz is about his simple idea. Helping disabled 1st responders and military veterans with dogs have full active lives!
Jay Nichols has been on the frontline of Search and Rescue dogs for generations. From the mountains and valleys of the northern plains to Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. get "gets it".
One notable feature about Jay is his raw enthusiasm and boy like joy of meeting new dogs and introducing them to new things and activities. His word is that he will continue to work towards the benefit of all out dogs, but also stay proactive in providing access to support for our disabled 1st responder and military veterans with their dogs.
The facility has ample shade, water and is mostly level ground. The facility has a wheelchair accessible portable restroom.
Like most docks, the "dock" was not wheelchair accessible, and we continue to work with all the dock locations to hopefully remedy this in the future.
- The venues manager is a disabled vet themselves and can relate on a very personal level to your needs. MORE INFO. BELOW
Location and Contact information is at the end of this article.
We hope to see you and your best furry friends out their this year.
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More Information:
- Florida K9 Sports
43525 Florida 64
Myakka City, FL 34251
(406) 208-9633
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