Host, Teach & Partner

Bring the right idea to the right dog-sport community.

Sports Paws is more than a place to take a class. It is a working facility, a local audience, and a community that values useful instruction, humane dog activity, thoughtful professional care, and experiences worth showing up for. Explore the ways to teach, host, collaborate, or sponsor something here.

Lisa Ziomkowski with three dogs in a straw-barn setting

Services

Ways to Play, Train & Move

Choose a current pathway or use the general request when you are not sure where to begin.

Programs, practices, and partner appointments vary by season and provider.Most general inquiries receive a reply within two business days.Camas, Washington and the greater Vancouver–Portland area.

Start with what’s already here—the facility, the programs, the partners, and the audience your work would join.

Overview

Dog-and-handler teams exploring a first activity, building sport skills, supporting healthy movement, or seeking the right qualified provider.

Sports Paws confirms the provider, fit, schedule, requirements, and price before anything is booked. Partner services remain the responsibility of the named provider.

How it works

1Tell us about your dog, goals, or professional program.

2Sports Paws identifies the relevant pathway or named provider.

3The provider confirms fit, requirements, schedule, and price.

Sports Paws routes each request to the relevant program or named partner, who confirms fit, requirements, schedule, and price.

Service menu

Agility

Agility Foundations & Practice

Foundation classes, ongoing practices, and entry-event preparation for dog-and-handler teams building safe, clear agility skills.

Nosework

K9 Nosework

Foundation series and drop-in searches that build confident independent searching and clearer handler observation.

Rat search

I Smell a RAT!

Intro sessions and ongoing practices built around safe rat-search games, climbs, tunnels, and scent problem-solving.

Healthy dog fitness

Healthy-Dog K9 Fitness

Educational conditioning and body-awareness programming for healthy adult dogs working on stable, non-slip surfaces.

Canine physical therapy

Canine Movement Care

Professional screening, rehabilitation, and physical therapy provided by Jennifer Benton through Being in Balance Physical Therapy.

Professional program

Clinics, Events & Professional Programs

Facility, program, and partnership pathways for qualified instructors, clubs, practitioners, and organizers.

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Start a request

Not sure which option fits? Tell us about your dog, your goals, and the kind of help or experience you are looking for.

Work With Me

Bring Your Work to Sports Paws

Sports Paws is open to the right instructors, clubs, practitioners, photographers, vendors, and organizers who can add something useful to the dog-sport community.

Pathways — Ways to work together

Teach a Clinic

Bring a focused workshop, seminar, or hands-on learning experience to Sports Paws.

Best for: Experienced instructors and educators with a clear audience outcome

Custom, based on format, provider, facility use, and attendance

Host a Club Event

Explore ACT events, fun matches, tests, practice days, meetings, or community programming that fits the facility.

Best for: Dog-sport clubs and event organizers

Plan six to twelve weeks ahead when possible

Offer a Complementary Service

Bring a service that supports active dogs and their people without competing with the experience Sports Paws already provides.

Best for: Qualified practitioners, photographers, pet professionals, and specialty vendors

Fit, credentials, scheduling, and commercial terms reviewed individually

Create a Community Program

Build a scholarship, rescue, education, enrichment, or access initiative with a clear benefit to the community.

Best for: Rescues, nonprofits, educators, and community partners

Purpose and responsibilities agreed before promotion

Have a different idea? Tell us what you want to bring to the Sports Paws community.

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Collaborate Open to collaboration

Posted by Sports Paws

Build a Dog-Sport Sampler Day With Us

A welcoming one-day experience where local dog-and-handler teams can try short introductions to agility, nosework, rat-search games, and healthy-dog fitness.

What we want to make together

What the offering creator brings

Facility, event operations, Sports Paws audience, agility and rat-search programming, Page promotion, and participant coordination.

What we are looking for from a collaborator

One experienced instructor, club, rescue, photographer, or wellness professional who can lead a complementary station, bring required materials, join pre-event planning, deliver the station on site, and provide a short follow-up resource.

Expectations / deliverables

Humane, reward-based, participant-friendly work; clear provider credentials; practical setup; shared promotion; respect for facility and animal-safety policies; one complete designed station.

Timing

Proposed for a future seasonal weekend after both parties agree on scope and dates.

Proposed future split

These percentages describe possible future economics only. They are not active until creator acceptance and a later agreement.

Offering creator: 48.5%
Accepted collaborator: 48.5%
Streams platform fee: 3%

No amount or revenue is promised, and submitting an inquiry does not attach this split to the inquirer.

Creator review required. Submitting an inquiry expresses interest. It does not establish the collaboration or activate the proposed split. Sports Paws, as the posting creator, must accept the collaborator first.