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"Try to be as supportive as possible but remember that it is all for fun."

The two attend training classes together and walk a lot of courses together at
trials. "We'll talk about how to handle,"
says Clyde, "but Mardi has been handling long enough to know what will or
won't work for her dog." She adds, "We
are physically such different people. He
may say, 'Why don't you try this,' but
I will think I can't get there. All of our
dogs are quite different and react very
differently. Unless you run the dog, you
can't know what it feels like."
Clyde's support of Mardi is so legend that
when he is off judging and she is trialing
on her own, friends will yell his signature
"Go get 'em, hon," when she steps to the
line.When they are trialing together, one
might ask the other what they thought
went wrong with a run, but only after the
dogs are away. "One of us might say, 'I'm
surprised you did that rear cross there,'
but more likely we will hear it as commentary on the video," says Mardi.

In the car on the way home, conversation often focuses on the runs of developing handlers or students, or dogs
they have bred. They talk about course
analysis and design. "We both want to
do well in the ring. One weekend it will
be Brash's weekend, the next weekend
will be Screech's, says Mardi. No matter
whose dog, I often get into the car, look
back at one of the dogs and say, 'You
are the super star today!''"
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More than 15 years ago Jan Padgett happened to see a dog running agility on TV.
"My dog could do that," she told herself
and she found an instructor. A few years
later, husband Mike fell in love with a
Border Collie the couple was fostering
and Jan laid down the law. "If you want
to keep him, you have to play agility." He
saw this as a chance for the South Carolina couple to do something together.
He started out slow and she looked
at agility as a casual hobby, trialing occasionally and willing to blow off a trial
if something better came along. Things
changed about six years ago when they
got their tiny Sheltie Kona. "She is a
remarkable dog," says Mike, "and has really gotten me hooked into the whole
sport." Jan has become equally obsessed.
They share the care of the dogs. He enjoys the grooming and takes on the early morning tasks. Not a morning person,
Jan takes the later shift. They "home
school" the dogs, training together in
the evenings. Their views on training
and handling are identical. "When we
ran at a national competition in different rings, we would watch the video
and see that we chose to do the same
move in exactly the same place."
Because they share similar styles, they
freely critique each other in training.
Sometimes it helps to fuel the quiet
competitiveness between the two. "Jan
isn't shy about telling me what I am doing wrong. That could cause problems
for some people, but it's most useful
for me to have her there." If anything,
it makes him more determined to get

it right. It works for them, he says, because they are both willing to listen.
"We push one another," says Jan.
A couple of years ago they each had
a dog close to a MACH when they attended a three-day trial. "He would pull
ahead, then I would pull ahead. There
was good-natured teasing," and they
both MACHed that weekend.
But it doesn't always go that way.
They each have their good weekends
and their bad weekends, and they will
talk about what went well, what went
wrong, and what they can do in training to help the person who had the
bad weekend. "Mike will point out all
the things that went right and how few
things actually went wrong. We both
help each other see the good."
"Agility has brought us close together,"
says Mike. And they communicate better
than ever. "It helps to have very similar
goals, to be the best team possible." Jan
advises that couples who want to play
the game together learn to take any
criticism with the thought that the other
person is trying to help them and their
dog to become the best team possible.
"Try to be as supportive as possible but
remember that it is all for fun."

Supportive System
© eRica FeRLaND

Agility has created a social life for the
pair, who agree that the sport shouldn't
be taken too seriously. "I am competitive, but I have found that I really like the
competition with myself, trying something physically that I wouldn't do otherwise," says Mardi. Clyde says its apparent
that she really enjoys what she is doing
when she is running with her dog. She
admires how agile Clyde is, even now,
with a recent knee replacement.

Tightening the Bond
© jiM DUNaWaY

to the early training. Clyde says, "Mardi
is more patient when they are young."
Mardi adds, "I enjoy the foundation
training. Clyde is better about maintaining the criteria." They agree that they
complement each other.

John and Lisa Marcus of Vermont were
busy breeding Cavalier King Charles
Spaniels when they were bitten by the
agility bug. John was drawn into the
sport by his son, who was interested
in the sport and needed a ride to class.
Eventually, the child lost interest, but
the dog had some good skills, so John
started taking classes. "It was different
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