I know how difficult it is to find nice gear for taking your dog into competition, so have decided to put together a list of small businesses who can help us out! For those interested in the sport of competition AKC Obedience who want or need unique items OR for the brand new exhibitor looking for equipment, here are links to small businesses that make specialized gloves, jumps, articles, leashes, etc.... more links to be added as I find them.
**These links are provided merely as suggestion on places to look. I do not receive any compensation to list them here**
Board Working creates unique or custom, handmade pieces - dumbbells and single or double bar utility articles. Beautiful work that you'll be proud to show off!
Making unique, custom article bags and other items. You can have an article bag with a custom, hand-stitched dog, using a picture of your own dog, or you can choose to use stock designs or no dog at all
Located in NJ and creating hand made tug toys, armband holders and utility bags for obedience competition.
Just Right Gloves makes high quality, bright white utility gloves with colorful cuffs for competitive obedience trainers and their dogs. Gloves are custom made just for your dog.
Located in Ohio, Mark's is a source for Agility equipment, but he also makes AKC appropriate obedience jumps, including Broad, High and Bar jumps.
Located in Lansing, MI, On Point custom scent article bags. Use your ribbons or artwork to personalize your bag. Lots of colors or pattern options to choose from.
Sporty Pawz makes custom wing jumps for Agility and will make Obedience jumps (bar or high). Bar is 1" diameter and other colors are available for height adjustment.
Custom designed utility articles with over 30 leather colors and even some metallic leather to choose from. Coordinate your articles, leash & article bag to match!
Custom designed utility article bags and matching armband holders. She works hard on these custom bags for dog show entries, so take a look at what she can do for you!
Training Treasures has custom leashes, collars, dumbbells and utility articles. Color coordinate your dog and their equipment. Take a look at some of their beautiful sets!
Max 200 has been in business for decades and offers whatever you need for any performance dog sport from Agility, Obedience, Flyball and Rally!
J&J Dog Supplies is another performance dog business that has been around for decades. They serve an even larger variety of performance sports and have donated to our local raffle fundraiser as well.
Connie Cleveland created Obedience Road to help people get the best possible training on their competition obedience dog. She's been helping people succeed for decades and is an incredible source for those who don't have access to competition instruction locally.
Adele Yunck made the video Positively Fetching, a method of training the retrieve using positive motivation, which is how I have personally trained my last three competition dogs. It may no longer be available, but Adele is the trainer that put this option out there for people. Many other step-by-step videos are available online at Northfield Dog Training.