We're not exactly sure what Graduation Day entails (ha, ha) but it will include a video/photo montage of our work at the team training. I think the dogs do get to wear some sort of mortar cap, but I could be wrong. Wed. we take part in a video shoot. and they've been taking photos all along.
The Graduation Day is shared with puppies that will be "matriculating" from their puppy raising family into advanced training here in the CCI kennels. They're hardly puppies, however. All are over a year old and I think most are around 18 months old and all but full-grown.
Should be fun, I'm sure Susan will cry most of the time, like our wedding night (ha, ha, again). We really hope a lot of you can make it, we'd love to have a crowd. There will also be CCI branded merchandise for sale at the Graduation, we've been told. And no, you don't get a discount if you say you're friends with a CCI graduate.
By the way, Friday night will be a neat night too. We'll know then if we're graduating, the written test will have been given and graded, the public certification test will have been done too and we'll get to meet Leeta's puppy raiser(s). We don't know anything about them yet, so it'll be cool. They're probably excited too, since only 3 out of 10 dogs ever make it to placement in this program, so statistically, it's not unusual for a puppy raiser to have raised 3 puppies (at 18 months a piece) before one gets placed with a CCI recipient. I'm guessing their metaphorical tails will be a-waggin'.
2 comments:
Can't wait to see her photo! :)
Good luck with the tests. I will be thinking about you.
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