Well, jasmine failed her CGC but...

[Bridget]

You have a right to be proud of Jasmine. Heidi and I took the CGC class last summer and in practice, she passed everything except the passing the other dog test. Welcome to my world. Heidi is 9 years old and we still work on this.

[Stosh]

When we tested for it, they told us that we could fail one part but they gave a do-over on that one thing and if the dog passed the 2nd try they passed the dog. But if you missed two parts it was over

[selzer]

That is true, but it is up to the individual examiner.

For example, Beansy, after just one CGC class, passed 9 parts. But she shied away when he went to pet her head. He did not offer to let her redo. Two days later I found a gigantic hot spot on her neck. I wonder if it was already working.

Beansy did go through puppy class, and two basic obedience sets of classes, though, so she was not going into the test cold, just did not work on things like visual and audio distractions, walking through a crowd, having her feet and ears touched, etc.

That was the worst CGC class in history of the trainers. Not the trainers, the handlers and dogs. One dog passed the test. All the other dogs, other than Beans tried to eat the Doberman meet and greet dog. Most of them failed supervised separation, and it was just bad. I had Bear in that class, but she was sold a week before the last class. Evenso, the dogs were so nutty in there, that a couple of times I stepped in between or refused to leave my dog on a stay because one of them was way too close.

[1sttimeforgsd]

Congrats on what you have already accomplished!

[GSDOWNED]

Sounds like she did a great job! I bet she passes next time. Congratulations!

[GSDElsa]

Good job--it's all about baby steps and it's great you recognize that. When you have a dog who is fear reactive things like 8 out of 10 of the CGC segments is a huge accomplishment!