Manic Menagerie

07/13/2026

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07/08/2026

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04/08/2026

We have been using Flyball Hub for a while now (since testing it as a pilot) and figured it was time to share our love for it! Screenshots here are from desktop, but looks just as good on mobile.

Flyball Hub is an app/website for flyball club management (available in Android and Apple app stores) that has been a game changer for managing our club. Some of our favorite features, in no particular order:
1) Share your team link with code to only your members.
2) Owners (team members) can add their dogs or captains can add them – and they can be claimed by the owner later (we have been doing this with our beginner class dogs).
3) For each dog: ID space for CRN, photo for quick identification, breed, owner, birthday, and turn direction – plus custom levels for training level, skills, and ball types. You can sort by the different info (alphabetical name, training level, etc. Team captains can edit info as well. We haven’t used the training and stats options at the dog level to their potential yet.
4) Well-optimized for mobile and computer
5) Practices! Tournaments! With RSVP for dogs and/or people. This has been a gamechanger for planning and organizing practice. You can repeat previous training schedules or make new, set the time blocks, and add dogs (RSVP’d or not).
6) Sub-Teams – dogs that commonly do things together can be grouped.
7) Tournaments – ability to add existing teams or make quick teams from club dogs. We keep track of payments, etc in the notes for each tournament.
8) Member info – emergency contacts, allergies, contact info, etc – all in one place!
9) Personalize team colors, etc

I am sure I am forgetting things – but it has significantly decreased the work to organize practices and tournaments, has made it easier to find all the info for something in one place, and greatly reduced the amount of random Facebook messages.

02/01/2026

10/16/2025

CanAm 2025 Recap:

CanAm week started with horrible news of the passing of Rumble, a long time cornerstone of our team. We thought of him and Jess lots throughout the week, we never know how much precious time we have.

Our last minute lineup changes had us combine with New River Express from VA which worked out excellently, thanks Lynda, Katie, and Aile for embracing the insanity!

We entered 1 lineup for Friday, where Loki earned his Iron Dog running with his offspring. Saturday and Sunday we ran 6 (!!!) lineups, plus dogs on 5 other clubs. Xena, Moxxi, Cal, and Rumor all got their Iron Dog on Saturday. Otherwise, it looked like none of us knew how to play flyball!

We rearranged teams successfully for Sunday, where we mostly remembered what flyball was - resulting in a win in Regular 8 and a 2nd place in Multi 3 Classic divisions.

In total, we had 39 racing dogs, 22 (?) people from 7 states and a Canadian providence!! We filled 3 volunteer positions for Sat/Sun, extra thanks to all who helped cover while we were racing! 5 dogs completed their Iron Dog and 18 other titles were earned!

Importantly (aka Mother of Jess’s) meant that we actually ate food during the race day!

09/24/2025

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08/01/2025

We always have a fabulous time racing in Caledonia, Canada but came to our second Springloaded Multibreed Challenge with our game faces on, even after rearranging teams when we had to pull a solid dog unexpectedly.

Our M2 team - GIR, River, Tonks, Hero - had an almost perfect weekend, with only one error. The baby utensil got some great experience in during warmup in the lanes. They also won their division and had the fastest time, which made them the Multicup Challenge winners 🎉. This is the first time the Cup has left Canada.

Our M5 and M7 teams also both came in 2nd!

M5 was the almost height dog team with Libby,
Rumor, Prête, Quinn, Miss Demeaner, and Josie.

M7 was Zydeco, Krennic, Moxxi, Jack, Rougarou, and one-heat-wonder Bounce.

The dogs (and Tyler) were extra appreciative of the low river for wading time.

Thanks Springloaded for organizing such a cool tournament! Also thanks to our R15 BFFs HOT for always being willing to run multi, being great cheerleaders, and staying late to help with car problems! We love celebrating the Multibreed division, and are excited to pull off two big Multibreed wins this year, with the Multibreed Challenge Cup and Westminster M1!