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Welcome to the Home Page
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The Pedal Pushers Flyball Team 
 
This page is under constant renovation.  Visit often to see new additions. 
Last updated: February 14, 2004

 

                           

 

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Our Team's History:

Like several of the Southeast Michigan based flyball teams; we formed at the Ann Arbor Dog Training Club during the 1980's.  At first, we were known to many as the "Lab Club Flyball Team."  We began with only four dogs.   All were Labrador Retrievers --- Casey, Coal, Gulliver, and Laddie.

As more and more people were able to experience it, flyball began to grow in popularity.  Participation in the North American Flyball Association activities grew, and our team grew as well.  People with different breeds of dogs; both large and small, short and tall; have joined with us since our humble beginnings. 

During the years, many people have spent some time with our team.  Senior members have shared their experience.  New members have brought additional dogs, fresh ideas, and more energy.  Our team has grown considerably, but our goals have remained the same - to have fun playing the game with our dogs.

 

It has been several very busy years for us, and we are ready to take a break.  We are currently in a 'down period' as we take some time to catch our breaths, decide where we want to go with things, and see when we are ready to run again.

 

 

Our Dogs:

 

Many of our dogs have returned to our Team's roots and have begun running on the Front Runners.  Click here to see how they are doing.

 

 

We  had 6 dogs earn  ONYX awards while members of our Team.  We are very proud of their accomplishments, and are thankful for their teammates' help in gaining them.  The dogs are:

 

 

Pedal Pushers ONYX Winners:

Click on the underlined Dog's Name to Learn More About It 
Dog : Date of First Tourney: Date ONYX was Earned: Number of Tourneys the Dog had Run When the ONYX Was Earned:
Beau 5/24/1998 9/8/2001 38
Chili 4/17/1999 3/29/2002 33
Midge 4/15/2000 5/18/2002 28
Molly 6/19/1999 5/18/2002 33
Jetta 3/20/1993 6/29/2002 55
Dallas 10/3/1998 7/13/2002 32

 

 

Sadly, our dogs cannot continue to run forever, and they eventually must slow down their competitive pace, or stop competing all together.  As much as we do not want to see it happen, they must all eventually retire from the game that we all love so much.

 

Below is a list of many of those dogs that retired as a Pedal Pusher.  It also contains some current members of our team that get to enjoy competing only occasionally.  

 

We miss seeing every one of them running at tournaments, but are glad that we got to enjoy the fun of being there while they were doing it (and that we still get to enjoy some of them doing it every now and then).

 

 

Retired Dogs:
(Click on the underlined name of the dog to learn a little more about it.)

[Note that NAFA records are only available beginning on 01/01/1991]

Original Team members are listed in yellow:
Name Breed Title 
(post-1991)		 Points Total
(post-1991)		 Last Competed
in a Tourney on:

Autumn

 Dalmatian FDCh 558 10/28/2000
Beau Border Collie ONYX 23994 05/04/2002
Bo Border Collie FD 31 06/29/02
Casey Labrador FDX Pre-1991 Pre-1991

Callie

 Labrador FM 6656 05/11/1997
Coal Labrador FDX 1285 03/03/1996
Dawn Doberman FDX 3230 05/15/1994
Elsa Labrador FDCH 654 08/12/2000
Gulliver Labrador FD Pre-1991 Pre-1991
Jetta Labrador ONYX 22804 05/27/2003
Kip Border Collie  FMCh 15573 08/12/2000
Kluane Labrador FM 9902 11/20/1999
Laddie Labrador Pre-1991 Pre-1991 Pre-1991
Mac Border Collie  FMX 12106 01/19/2002
Me Too Belgian Terv. FDX 314 06/15/1997
Murphy Am. Cocker Pre-1991 Pre-1991 Pre-1991
Nikki Sheltie FDCh 2837 05/06/2000
Orry Sheltie FDX 4836 05/06/2000
Rex Labrador FDX 218 04/15/2000
Shawn Golden Ret. FDX 3837 12/04/1994
Sly Sheltie FDX 4944 03/03/1996
Snow Nor. Elkhound FD 11 06/15/1997
Star Labrador FM 5190 06/21/2003
Tina All American  FD 76 05/15/1999
Toby All American FDCh 3999 4/26/2003
Woodie Labrador FDCh 851 10/12/2002
Zoe All American FDX 325 04/07/2001

 

 

 

 

 

  

Links to flyball related sites (click on these to go to the sites):

         North American Flyball Association Home Page  (the official NAFA site)

                  NAFA Tournament Schedule  (from the NAFA data base)

              i-Flyball.com (a site for flyball related information)

      Flyball.com Home Page

    Flyball Home Page

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This Team's pages are maintained by Gerry Bradshaw.   I welcome any questions, suggestions or comments about them.