Mason is a Certified Canine Good Citizen!!
After Mason’s last Intermediate Obedience class I asked the instructor about enrolling him in her next Canine Good Citizen class and then taking the test at the end. She said she thought he could pass without it. A month after this class ended and limited training geared toward the CGC test I emailed her and asked if he could take her class. She basically told me no lol. She repeated again that she thought he would do fine…and he did!!!! 
There were only three of us that showed up to take the test. Because of this, we didn’t have much of a “crowd” for the Walking Through a Crowd task. So, we started out with that task and the instructor had the volunteers for the Humane Society come over to stand in as our “crowd” (it was closing soon so they would be leaving). Mason went first, he did very well. He did sniff two people on the way by but when I said “Leave it!” he went right by, no tug on the leash needed.
Next we did the Reaction to Another Dog test. In this one the instructor had two dogs sit about 8 feet apart and the remaining dog (the one being tested) had to do a figure-8 and then sit next to one of the other dogs. We went first again and as we went around the second dog, it started sniffing Mason and then jumped on him! He was such a good boy though, he just ignored the dog at my command and kept eye contact with me and we made it through!! 
The rest of the test went really, really smoothly and quite fantastic really! I heard several comments about Mason’s amazing eye contact . There was one part that I was really nervous about, the Sitting Politely for Petting task. He had to stay in a sit/stay while the instructor came up to pet him and he couldn’t lift his little wiggle-butt off the ground. We only practiced this a handful of times with Eric and Adam before we left so I wasn’t sure how it would go - he did it!!!!! He glanced over and checked in with me once but kept his little behind firmly planted! I was SO proud!
For Appearance and Grooming he started out standing and when the instructor knelt to check his sides/feet, he collapsed onto his side - it was hilarious - the whole group laughed. When we did sit and lay down he was really good. Then he had to sit/stay (and we’ve been practicing me walking away with my back to him, it worked ) and when I walked to the end of the room, I paused and then I said his release word and Come - he raced towards me - making everyone smile again. He’s so darn cute!
Our last part of the test was supervised separation and he did fine, no problems what-so-ever. We signed our form to send out and as we were walking out the door I heard the other two ladies that were left say, “We shouldn’t've let him go first, now our dogs are going to look way worse”!!!