K9 Freestyle with Richard Curtis

Welcome

Richard Curtis is one of the UKs leading Heelwork to music / Canine freestyle handlers. He has successfully competed in Canine freestyle / dog dancing and obedience, winning the Crufts freestyle final in 2006 with his Portuguese Water Dog. Richard has judged the Crufts finals in 2007 and has officiated at various competitions abroad. Richard is a renowned instructor and regularly teaches Heelwork to music workshops in the UK and abroad. This has lead to the filming of a series of  training videos and the publication of the first hard backed book in the UK on the subject. He has appeared on various radio and Televison programmes (Click here for details) and also writes for the leading canine journal, Dog World.

 Pogo wins a Crufts semi final freestyle qualifer

Pogo has now qualifed for the freestyle Crufts semi final by wining her class at the PNM June show. Also at the Westglen show in April Pogo won her class and qualified for the Crufts HTM semi finals in January 2010

 Watch Richards main ring training Crufts display on the video clips page

**To book tickets for the August Mary Ray evening go to the Diary page**

Whizzy almost wins at her first obedience show

 Richard and Whizzy competed in their first open obedience show where Whizzy was joint first in novice but a little hop back in the present meant they lost the first place run off. A good result though and fingers crossed for the rest of the obedience season.

K9 Freestyle dancing dog display

Online video of the dancing dogs display team now available, watch what Richard and his dogs get upto during the summer by providing arena entertainment at country shows

To find out more about canine freestyle, heelwork to music or dog dancing and how to get started click here