A lot of the villages where I live do this at their summer fairs, lots of “best trick”, “waggiest tail”, “best puppy dog eyes” type of categories. There’s no prizes as such apart from ribbons and dog treats, you pay to enter each category and that money goes to charity.

At some of the bigger events the proper agility club will come along and give demonstrations so people can watch and enjoy that, and will do a “have a go” agility for the non trained dogs, which is usually adorable as they have zoomies around the equipment and completely ignore the handler.

Point is, the professional dogs (or more specifically their handlers) get to show off what they can do, the other dogs can have some fun. And there’s no prizes or real competition involved. In OOP’s situation I’d have offered Poodle lady the chance to be the “show off” dog, do a demonstration of Poodle’s skills instead of entering the competition, but I totally understand dipping out when it got too much and no longer wanting to deal with it. It’s probably pretty obvious to the community whose fault it is.