canine good citizen
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This week’s class was held inside Home Depot — a fitting location for a program that prepares dogs for both the AKC Community Canine (CGC-A) and CGC Urban (CGC-U) tests. While most classes separate those two titles, this one does both. It blends advanced obedience with real-world, unpredictable environments — from crowded aisles and loud…
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Lady Priscilla completes her canine good citizen test — the AKC’s first step toward becoming a trusted public companion. We’ll walk you through how it went. If you’re just joining her CGC training arc, start with Five Feet, Four Dogs, where her breakthrough moment in class changed everything. It didn’t feel like a test. Not…
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We walked into our final CGC class not quite knowing what to expect. It wasn’t the official exam — just a dry run of the CGC test for dogs — but if you know our trainer Jenny, you know that “dry run” means prepare for the toughest version possible. In the real AKC CGC test,…
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The Pace of Progress in CGC Training Dogs in an AKC Canine Good Citizen class often surprise their handlers. Just when you think they’ve plateaued, they level up in ways you didn’t expect. The challenge is figuring out when to ease off the gas… and when it’s time to speed up. We knew CGC would…
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CGC Training: A Turning Point We had been in CGC training for exactly two sessions. Just seven short days between “Is she even ready for this?” and “Wait…did she really just do that?” Lady Priscilla came in hot. Her training had been going well at home and in public, but performing her skills in a…