CGC and TDI Testing

cassius003 · Basic Obedience

CGC and TDI Testing

BoxersnMinis · Congratulations!

First of all, Cassius is very young and controlable calmness in Boxers comes with age.
I'll will be working toward Pilots CGC this fall and I would not expect him to be able to contain himself around children yet...... he's too much of an excitable puppy.
I would be waiting until he is 2 y.o. to work toward a TDI with success in all situations. JMO

cassius003 · Basic Obedience

Beverly,

Cassius is still young, he's actually almost 13 months....I haven't changed my signature in quite some time weirdface

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I guess since he does very well in all the other situations I was hoping he would perform well around kids. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it clicks.

Thanks!

PawPrint · Smitten by Boxers

13 months old is still young :)
They did not use children when I had my dogs tested for CGC. Just an adult and of course another dog. At least you can talk to your dog during CGC testing. For CD work, you must be mum :)

cassius003 · Basic Obedience

CD??? Sounds tough!!

I'll take the CGC for now. From what I understand from my trainer there will be kids at the testing. She brought one in last week to see how the dogs would react and Cassius failed miserably, especially when he was holding a tennis ball, talk about too many distractions!!! She's exposing our dogs to many different types of situations, sounds, smells and so on, which has been great for Cassius. A lot of what she is doing may not be a part of the test but it's still pushing his ADHD threshold.....lol

Sounds like Cassius is just being a Boxer and I need to be more patient with him.....

Thanks so much for your input!