Shamrock Shenanigans 2025

Submit 8 posed St. Patrick’s Day photos of your dog utilizing Animal Actor techniques

Animal Actor techniques may include:

1. Wear clothes
2. Posing in a public place
3. Posing with unusual items/situations
4. Stay on a mark
5. Stay on a mark at a far distance away
6. Watch a “look stick”
7. Stay on a non-stationary object (such as something wobbly)
8. “Leave it” (such as posing next to a sandwich)
9. Front paws up on an object
10. Whole body on top of an object
11. Interacting with a prop (holding something in mouth, going through tunnel, pawing at an object, etc)
12. “Perk up” (looking alert with ears pricked and eyes sparkling)
13. Doing a trick (wave, bow, lie on back, play piano, etc)

St. Patrick’s Day themes may include:

1. Wearing of the Green (Green hat/tie/bandana)
2. Tartan
3. Wearing a Kilt
4. Leprechauns
5. Pot of Gold
6. Over the Rainbow (a rainbow jump, or holding a rainbow)
7. Shamrock (4-leaf clover)
8. Green Beer / Irish Coffee / Irish Whiskey
9. Irish flag (hold it, pose with it)
10. Irish Jig (a little dance)
11. Horseshoes
12. Kiss the Blarney Stone
13. Gold Coins
14. March 17th
15. Shenanigans (getting into mischief)
16. Lucky Charm
17. Sheep/ Sheepherding
18. “Kiss Me I’m Irish”
19. Red Hair

Show your tricks/exercises to a Certified Animal Actor Evaluator

Join one of our free Facebook Spark Teams and post videos (or photos) of your tricks/exercises there. Each team is coached by a certified evaluator. 

Spark Team Online Evaluators 

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Submit the form above

Once a certified evaluator has OK’d your tricks/exercises, submit your application using the form above. You can choose your certificate and swag items.