French Ring Sport is the one of the most exciting dog sports to reach North America, a dog sport involving Obedience, Agility and Protection exercises. It originated in France and has been developed to its present form since the turn of the century. Ring Sport exercises test the dogs working ability. A dog must be very sound both mentally and physically to compete in the advanced levels as it is highly demanding of both the dog and handler.

                                                  Brevet

This is a Certification Test which when passed authorizes the dog to participate in French Ring Sport.
To pass the Brevet the dog MUST obtain a minimum of 80 points and receive at least 80% of the available points in each protection exercise.

Heel on leash, 4 points

Refusal of food(1 piece) 1 points

Heel off leash with muzzle,8 points

Down/stay( 1 min handler out of sight) 10 points

Defense of handler with gunfire, 30 points

Face (frontal) attack,(30 meters,15 sec) 30 points

General outlook, attitude of dog and handler, 8 points

The Defense of Handler is an interesting exercise. The exercise starts with the handler and decoy approaching each other at a normal walk. The dog is heeling off leash, the handler and decoy stop, shake hands and chat, at the stop the dog should sit. The handler and decoy then continue to walk past each other. As the decoy passes the handler the dog may turn and walk backwards staying beside the handler, the dog is not allowed to attack the decoy until he had come back and actually made physical contact with the handler.