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Originally Posted by KeeperBoy
Good luck! We are getting Boo ready for the Canine Good Citizen test, which sounds similar... it's harder than one would think, especially when you can't use treats.
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I’m lucky Andrea, I can use treats because my test is being organised by the training club and not the KC – whose rules are much stricter. Ruby is used to do all these exercises with other dogs/people around but they are the dogs that go to the class every week, she knows them and they know her. During the test it will be unfamiliar dogs and people and this is what may cause problems for us – Ruby is so nosy and so easily distracted.
The walking on lead worries me a bit too as we have been told to expect other distractions on the course that Ruby will be expected to ignore – e.g., food treats on the ground, a ball, a toy, etc. She has quite a good ‘leave’ command, but she is so unpredictable that anything could and probably will happen - if she lay there and went to sleep I wouldn’t be surprised – she’s done it before in class, believe it or not!
Andrea, do you have a link to your test? I would love to read up about it and see how it compares.