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Can your Aussie win all these titles? If you try hard enough, she can!

The following are a bunch of titles that your Aussie can win! They are grouped by the category of the title in bold and the association that offers it, in italics, the titles will follow in normal type. All titles are suffixes except those denoted by asteriks (*) which are prefixes.

Conformation:

AKC, ASCA, UKC, CKC, etc.-

*Ch-Champion

Obedience:

AKC, ASCA, UKC, CKC, etc.-

CD- Companion Dog
CDX- Companion Dog Excellent
UD- Utility dog
*OTCH- Obedience Trial Champion
TD- Tracking Dog
TDX Tracking Dog Excellent
UDX- Utility Dog Excellent
UDT- Utility Dog Tracking
UDTX- Utility Dog Tracking Excellent

AKC-

UDXTDX- Utility Dog Excellent Tracking Dog Excellent
UDVST- Utility Dog Variable Surface Tracking
UDXVST- Utility Dog Excellent Variable Surface Tracking

Herding:

ASCA-

s-sheep
c-cattle
d-cucks
STD- Started Dog
OTD- Open Dog
ATD- Advanced Dog
*WTCH- Working Trial Champion
RD- Ranch Dog
RDX- Ranch Dog excellent
PATD- Post Advanced Trial Dog (I think this is a title)

AKC-

HT- Herding Tested
PT- Pretrial Tested
HS- Herding Started
HI- Herding Intermediate
HX- Herding Excellent
*HC- Herding Champion

Agility:

(ASCA and NADAC, only with NADAC, N, O, E go in front of AC, and tack on a V, JH, for veteran or juniors)-

O-Open
E- Elite
RS- Regular/Standard
RV- Regular/Veteran
RJ- Regular/Junior Handler
RI- Regular/International
GS- Gamblers/Standard
GS- Gamblers/Veteran
GJ- Gamblers/Junior
GI- Gamblers/Intenational
JS- Jumpers/standard
JV- Jumpers/Veteran
JJ- Jumpers/Junior
JI- Jumpers/International
*NATCH- NADAC's Agility Trial Champion

AKC-

NA- Novice Agility
OA- Open Agility
AX- Agility Excellent
MX- Master Agility Excellent

UKC-

U-AGI -Agility 1
U-AGII - Agility 2
*U-ATCH- Agility Trial Champion

AAC-

ADC- Agility Dog
AAD- Advanced Agility Dog
MAD- Master Agility Dog

USDAA-

AD- Agility Dog
AAD- Advanced Agility Dog
MAD- Masters Agility dog
JM- Jumpers Master
GM- Gamblers Master
SM- Snookers Master
RM- Relay Master
VAD- Veteran Agility
*ADCH- Agility Dog Champion

Flyball:

FD- Flyball Dog
FDX- Flyball Dog Excellent
*FDCH- Flyball Dog Champ.
FDM- Flyball Dog Master

Schutzhund:


BH = Companion/traffic-sure dog
WH = Watchdog
AD = Endurance tested
OB1 = Schutzhund level 1 obedience
OB2 = Schutzhund level 2 obedience
OB3 = Schutzhund level 3 obedience
TR1 = Schutzhund level 1 tracking
TR2 = Schutzhund level 2 tracking
TR3 = Schutzhund level 3 tracking
SchHA = Schutzhund level 1 obed and protection
SchH1 = Schutzhund level 1 tracking, obed, and protection
SchH2 = Schutzhund level 2 tracking, obed, and protection
SchH3 = Schutzhund level 3 tracking, obed, and protection
IPO1 = IPO level 1 tracking, obed, and protection
IPO2 = IPO level 2 tracking, obed, and protection
IPO3 = IPO level 3 tracking, obed, and protection
FH = Tracking Dog - harder than a SchH3 and AKC's VST titles


Other:


AKC-

ROM- Register of Merit
CGC- Canine Good Citizen

ASCA-

*VCH- Versatility Champion
*SVCH- Supreme Versatility Champion
*PCH- Performance Champion
*SPCH- Supreme Performance

Therapy:

TDI- Therapy Dogs International
DSPP- Delta Society Pet Partners

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