the canine good citizen test consists of ten items:
- accept a friendly stranger
- sit politely for petting
- accept ears and feet touched, plus a brush
- walk on a loose leash
- walk through a crowd
- sit, down, and stay
- come when called
- react appropriately to another dog
- react appropriately to a distraction
- stay with another person for three minutes
this is something i try to get with all my dogs, but my little dog definitely did not pass back when she took it as a yearling. very proud of how far echo has come since she’s come to live with me—hard to believe that was only about three months ago!
that one can be hard! thankfully all my current dogs are comfy with other people. it helps that if you take a class, the dog gets to know the person they’ll be staying with.
Super hard for us! He’s basically with me all day every day for the last four years. He can do it if I’m in view but the second I’m out of sight things are not okay 😂
poor guy! my aussie definitely had some separation anxiety when i first got him, but thankfully it’s tapered off as he’s gotten older. then again, he’s always been fine so long as he’s with somebody he knows.