Horses for courses or courses for horses ?

I know, this is a canine forum and not an equine one  
But this is a subject which I’ve been exploring after discussion with several people at my canine club.
Do people choose the breed of dog for the canine activity they wish to pursue or do they try to find the activity which their dog takes a liking to ?
Or plan c, do they try to pursue an activity with their canine partner to the best of their combined ability ?

I’m in plan c and working obedience with Opium. Most of the other dogs are border collies, australian shepherds or belgian/german shepherds. Two of us in the team stand out in a crowd, one girl with her jack russel terrier and me with Opium.

My instructor has her retired rottweiler competition dog but today, she admits to have purchased a dutch shepherd and australian shepherd because they’re so much easier to train.
It is true that it looks so easy with those types of dog, almost too easy, whereas our terriers will always question before execution  But I’m sure we have so much more satisfaction with our achievements as we probably had to put in more work to get there.

We do have one top priority though, have fun and enjoy what we’re doing at all times.

Staffies love agility, not built for it but go hell for leather doing it! Katy loved it but but after twisting her knee I can't risk it

We had a club meeting today and I was chatting with the agility instructor. But she was saying that you needed to start around 9 months old and 18 months was starting to get hard to start (with top level in mind, of course)

Many at the club think that Opium would enjoy agility but I’d rather work on obedience first.

Jenc wrote:Staffies love agility, not built for it but go hell for leather doing it! Katy loved it but but after twisting her knee I can't risk it

There's at least one Staffordshire bull terrier agility champion, there may be others! And there's a team of staffs that do an agility demonstration at Crufts every year.

Nifty staffy wrote:We had a club meeting today and I was chatting with the agility instructor. But she was saying that you needed to start around 9 months old and 18 months was starting to get hard to start (with top level in mind, of course)

Many at the club think that Opium would enjoy agility but I’d rather work on obedience first.

I think you're right- you need good obedience before you start agility. But it wouldn't hurt to set up some weave poles and a tunnel I. Your garden for fun. Maybe a couple of small numbers s as well.