Iron Dog Award

At CanAm 2011, Executive Director Lee Heighton unveiled the new NAFA Iron Dog Award.

A NAFA Iron Dog is a dog that has earned at least one NAFA point in ten consecutive racing years. Irom Dog plaques will be issued annually after the end of each NAFA racing year.

For all qualifying Active status dogs (i.e. dogs that have earned a point in the last 18 months), they will automatically receive their Iron Dog plaque.

For qualifying Inactive/Retired/Deceased dogs, NAFA will be honored to provide a plaque for those special dogs. However, those will be issued only by request via our online form.

Iron Dog plaques will be issued annually after the end of each NAFA racing year. Plaques for qualifying active dogs will be mailed to the Regional Directors for distribution.

Plaques issued via special request will also be mailed to the Regional Directors unless a request to have the plaque mailed directly to the requestor has been received. Specific mailing preferences will be available on the online form.

Each time a team races in a NAFA sanctioned flyball tournament with a recorded time under 24 seconds, each dog racing in that heat will receive 25 points toward a flyball title; under 28 seconds each dog racing in that heat will receive 5 points; under 32 seconds each dog racing in that heat will receive 1 point.

Regular Titles
Points Earned in Regular	Title Awarded	Certificate	Pin	Plaque
20	FD - Flyball Dog	Yes	No	No
100	FDX - Flyball Dog Excellent	Yes	No	No
500	FDCh - Flyball Dog Champion	Yes	No	No
1,000	FDCh-S - Flyball Dog Champion-Silver	Yes	No	No
2,500	FDCh-G - Flyball Dog Champion-Gold	Yes	No	No
5,000	FM - Flyball Master	Yes	Yes	No
10,000	FMX - Flyball Master Excellent	Yes	Yes	No
15,000	FMCh - Flyball Master Champion	Yes	Yes	No
20,000	ONYX	No	Yes	Yes
30,000	FGDCh - Flyball Grand Champion	No	Yes	Yes
40,000		No	Yes	Yes
50,000-90,000		No	Yes	Additional plate every 10,000 points
100,000	Hobbes Award	No	Yes	Yes

Title patches for the above titles can be purchased from your local regional contact.

When a team races in the Multibreed Class, the dogs also earn an equal number of multibreed points. Multibreed points are not earned by performance teams. Multibreed titles and awards are earned as detailed in the table below:

Multibreed Titles
Points Earned in Regular	Title Awarded	Certificate	Pin	Plaque
20	MBD - Multibreed Dog	Yes	No	No
100	MBDX - Multibreed Dog Excellent	Yes	No	No
500	MBDCh - Multibreed Dog Champion	Yes	No	No
1,000	MBDCh-S - Multibreed Dog Champion-Silver	Yes	No	No
2,500	MBDCh-G - Multibreed Dog Champion-Gold	Yes	No	No
5,000	MBM - Multibreed Master	Yes	Yes	No
10,000	MBMX - Multibreed Master Excellent	Yes	Yes	No
15,000	MBMCh - Multibreed Master Champion	Yes	Yes	No
20,000	MB ONYX	No	Yes	Yes
30,000	MBGDCh - Flyball Grand Champion	No	Yes	Yes
40,000+	No additional titles	No	No	No