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Canine Good Citizen

Ice on My Blog - Sun, March 16 2008

I just got my Canine Good Citizen title today. The German Shepherd Club had an obedience show and go and CGC testing today at Indy K9 Kollege. My mom and I went there to help with the CGC testing and a very nice lady named Carol told my mom to try and see if I could get my CGC title. We tried and I passed!
I had to have a strange man pet me and handle me a little. Then my mom and I walked through a crowd of people. I couldn't jump on any one. That was very hard for me. Then I had to do a sit and down. Then a stay while my mom walked away and back to me. Then I had to stay again until mom called me to come to her. Then I had to behave while someone else with their dog walked up to mom and shook her hand. Then someone walked around us with a noisy thing that he dropped on the ground behind me. I had to sit next to my mom and not freak out while that was going on. The last thing I had to do was stay with strange man while my mom went out of my sight for a few minutes. I was a little nervous about that at first but the man was very nice. I settled down and did just fine till mom came back.
When everyone else did their testing my mom and I got to be the friendly stranger and dog. That was
fun.
My mom says she is very proud of me!!!

Colton on Mar 16 at 04:42 PM

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Way to go Ice!!! COngratulations!

Madeleine on Mar 16 at 04:49 PM

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Good job, Ice! I have a CGC, too, but you'd never know it to look at me. You look like a fine, upstanding Canine Good Citizen!

Charlie (Goosey) on Mar 16 at 04:52 PM

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Congratulations! That sounds really hard.

Ojo on Mar 16 at 07:02 PM

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Congratulations Ice! Mom has had thoughts about testing me (not Scouter for obvious reasons...). That noise by me might freak me out a bit -- maybe we should practice that part. High fives, Ice!

Oakley on Mar 16 at 07:43 PM

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Congrats Ice!!!!! My mom wants to get me tested too but can't ever seem to catch the girl at Petsmart to get more info on when and/or where they do the testing. I think I can pass, I have had plenty of obediance and mom has been taking me to a nursing home every other week and I am doing great there. Although, I did bark at this thing called a wheelchair when I first saw it. I had no idea there was such a thing. Everyone laughed at me.

Godzilla on Mar 16 at 08:12 PM

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Congrats Ice on a job well done. I earned my CGC last Sept. My parents were so proud of me, my mom showed it to everyone they met for a week. So embarassing but I did get alot of treats at the pet stores. :)

Madeleine on Mar 16 at 09:43 PM

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Ojo said:
Congratulations Ice! Mom has had thoughts about testing me (not Scouter for obvious reasons...). That noise by me might freak me out a bit -- maybe we should practice that part. High fives, Ice!

The hardest part for me was having my mom go away from me and leave me with a stranger! I flunked that part the first time, but we worked really hard and nailed it the next time.

Ojo on Mar 16 at 10:22 PM

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Madeleine said:
The hardest part for me was having my mom go away from me and leave me with a stranger! I flunked that part the first time, but we worked really hard and nailed it the next time.

That I can do if Mom puts me in a stay. We've practiced that a lot before when I'd go to the theatre with her and she had things to run & do. I don't like it much but I can do it.

Sadie on Mar 16 at 11:48 PM

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How wonderful Ice.
I trained there to and got my CGC to and went on training with Rich and learned more, I passed the Delta Society test and now I am a certified therapy dog, Training is great for me and mom we love it when we work together. I love Indy K9 Kollege. Good Job Ice.

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