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 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 TV programmes (Click here for details) and also writes for the leading canine journal, Dog World.

       Travelling, Teaching and TV

Life since Crufts has as usual been busy read a brief report in the news section

Watch the Crufts best in show musical routine which Mary Ray performed, helped out by a pesky clown !! Now I wonder who that was!

Click here to watch the Barnum performance

Click her to read more about the Barnum routine

K9 Freestyle dog display

Online video now available to see what Richard and his dogs get upto during the summer by providing arena entertainment at country shows

*** Watch some of Richards TV performances on the BBC 2 Underdogs show by going to the video clips page***

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