Many people are familiar with the concept of conformation dog shows. A group of dogs goes in. The judge selects the dog that s/he feels is the best representation of the breed and things go from there. That’s not something we do (ok…we did it once). The kind of golden Read more…
The Golden Retriever Club of America offers some specific titles/opportunities. One of them is the Certificate of Conformation Assessment. Instead of comparing a dog to the others in the ring, like in conformation, the CCA is a pass/not-pass test* where each dog is compared to the breed standard. Yesterday we Read more…
Griffin and I visited an AKC trial today and saw more people than we expected to! We saw lots of golden retriever people we know, lots of people we know from training and class, and some of his family! We were able to talk about the Certificate of Conformation Assessment Read more…