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‘Lobo’ the Siberian Husky goes off script in the 24 inch class of agility competition | FOX SPORTS

By Ann Premazon, founder of Local Husky

Video by FOX Sports on YouTube · Watch on YouTube. Local Husky isn't affiliated with this channel.

The video

FOX Sports filmed the 24-inch class of the Masters Agility Championship at the 2020 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Most of the class was border collies doing what border collies do. Then Lobo, a Siberian Husky, came out. He cleared the first jump, noticed the TV camera, and from then on treated the course as a list of suggestions. He took a break on the see-saw. He did the weave poles at his own pace. He went over the wrong jump. The commentators gave up on calling the run and started guessing what he was thinking. "I've got the top down, I'm heading down Pacific Coast Highway" is a fair summary.

Meet the dog and the channel

According to the broadcast and the Daily Mail, Lobo is from Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, and his handler was Alan Davis. Agility rarely sees a husky. The sport rewards dogs who want to do exactly what their handler asks at full speed, which is not how most people would describe the breed. The channel here is FOX Sports, which carried Westminster's agility event and uploaded the clip.

How it blew up

FOX Sports uploaded the run on February 10, 2020. By February 12 the Daily Mail had a story about it, reporting that Lobo took more than 76 seconds to finish. The class winner, Pink the Border Collie with handler Jennifer Crank, ran it in 29.35 seconds. iHeartDogs later put Lobo's final time at 76.32 seconds with 60 faults, and The Poke rounded up the best viewer comments. ("Huskies don't go off script, they just go Husky," according to one YouTube commenter quoted by Russiandog.net.) The FOX Sports upload had about 10.2 million views when we checked in November 2026.

The husky science behind it

Siberian Huskies were bred to run long distances as a team, pulling for hours with little direction once they were moving. They weren't bred to take a new cue from a handler every two seconds. That's why many huskies are smart but don't look obedient: they'll do the task when it makes sense to them. A bright, noisy arena full of smells and a camera that moves gives a husky plenty of things that make more sense than the teeter. Lobo clearly knew the obstacles. He just had other priorities.

A practical tip

If you want to try agility with your husky, make it a game, not a test. Keep sessions to five minutes, pay off every obstacle with a high-value reward, and practice in new places before you ever try a trial. Distraction is the real course.

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