Merrick,
My wife is HEAVILY into dog performance trials -- agility and obedience. She gets emailed this kind of stuff from time to time. I rmembered that catspaw was into the dog breed world, and he told me once that a few acquaintences of his were getting into the new Rally Obedience. I just figured he'd get a kick out of this.

The dog world is funny. It's so insider sometimes that I'm sure few understood the humor of this site. Same goes for that movie "Best Of Show". I assume few fully "got" the humor therein, but I always wondered who, among the writers of that one, were into the dog world such that they had such an insider view.