Here is a video of the pitiful way the AKC treats agility athletes.  This is from the 2009 Eukanuba Invitational in Long Beach.  An invitational means you have to be a good enough athletic team to be invited.  Agility handlers work hard and so do their dogs.  This is just a pitiful way a snobby organization demonstrates how it really feels about anything under their roof except purebred confirmation – their breeders.

If, after you watch this clip, you feel slighted as an agility handler or otherwise, take a minute to go to www.akc.org and at the bottom of the page is the “contact us” button.  Click on it, and give them some feedback.  I did.