Unfortunately, not everything always runs smoothly in flyball. Dogs will be dogs, and we can expect them to make mistakes!

When a dog makes a mistake in flyball it is called a fault or a flag. In order to clear the flag, the dog must successfully rerun after the last dog has finished. If multiple flags are called, the dogs must rerun in the order that the flags are called.

In this video you will see several common mistakes.

1) Porter (Australian Cattle Dog) goes wide on the return and misses the jumps coming back to her handler.

2) Magnolia (Dalmatian) drops the ball on the line when returning because

3) Maddie (Cock-a-poo) has a bad pass -- which means that she crossed the start finish line going out to the box before Magnolia crossed the start/finish line returning from the box.

4) Sienna (Australian Shepherd) may also have had a bad pass -- difficult to discern.

5) Porter (Australian Cattle Dog) misses the jumps going out on her rerun.

6) Maddie (Cock-a-poo) attempts to rerun to clear the fault for her bad pass, but goes out of turn.

The race is called a no finish.