I am going back a couple years for this post.
In June of 2014 we participated/attended a fun weekend sponsored by the American Chesapeake Club (ACC). Some of these can be a lot of work but well worth it. It is a great way to socialize dogs, practice disciplines you may be interested in and socialize with other people in your breed as well as other breeds.
It was a beautiful sunny weekend! We had an agility obstacle course set up, rally, we would have obedience and conformation time, field time and we would be offering the Canine Good Citizen (CGC) test.
The attendance was fantastic. Jennifer Marenich was our instructor, she did a great job. We ended up having 20 dogs pass their CGC test; Maia and Titan were two of those. I worked with them the day before with several other people and overall they seemed ready but was I?!? You know when you get nervous the dogs feel that so I was trying not to be anxious, just relax and have fun. That paid off! They passed and earned their CGC title.
Titan takes it literally about having fun!
The sit/stay. The dog is required to stay where you place them, then the owner walks to the end of a 20 f00t line turns and walks back. As you can see Titan did very well with this.
Your dog must walk on a leash without pulling, Maia did great with this.
Here the dog has to sit with someone while the owner goes out of sight for 3 minutes. To pass they have to be calm, they can look for you but they can’t act out. Titan waited for me patiently.
The whole group that passed their CGC
This is a great way to proof your dog socially. With that being said it doesn’t mean you stop socializing once you gain your title in particular with Chesapeake’s. But I will save that for another post.
Most everyone practiced on the agility equipment. This was so much fun, I had always wanted to try some stuff out with the dogs.
Maia and I tried the jumps, she actually liked doing it. This was the low jump.
This jump was quite a bit higher but she cleared it.
Uhh I’m not too sure about this…
Titan really enjoyed doing this, we did it several times and even did it off leash once.
Wait…you want me to what…
Several people checked out the rally, conformation and obedience. Quite a few dogs practiced in the field. We were able to get some water work in also.
A little land work.
And some water work.
I know there were some tired dogs at the end of the day. So what do you do for fun with your dogs?
Misty Shores Chesapeakes 
Sounds fun.
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What a great time, some day I want to do agility with gman.
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We had fun playing with the equipment. I would like to do it with Maia and Titan but I don’t know if I could keep up with them 😉
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I used to do a drop in agility class with Delilah, it was so much fun. Just to get the dogs out with other dogs, try some new things and burn off energy. She did pretty well with it too, but only if I was on my game, because she took her cues from me.
I think of all the equipment we tried, some of the ones a lot of dogs were unsure of was the A-Frame, the teeter totter and the narrow walk. But with patience, most of them figured it out.
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That A frame kind of threw them off. I was surprised when Titan did the narrow walk so well and was actually happy about doing it.
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