Yeah, me too - 3 hours one way to IGP! My dog really is benefitting from the local classes with an AKC trainer though, so I'm just going forward with what we have. I WILL go over one day, I did go over for a meet & greet when she was 5 months, and they liked her and I liked them, but the shut-downs happened & I never went back, but I will. IGP work is a goal, and I have no doubt I have the dog for it. LOL, hard & drivey makes AKC a little bit harder.... Keep posting what you do with Gemma - I did Star Puppy - yes, the training was "what you can to at home" and I thought this is a waste of time and $ too, but for my dog it was the other people & dogs that she badly needed exposure to and it was a game changer for me to find out just how reactive she was and how much work I needed to do in public. Then I did CGC and passed CGCA as well. Barely, but that's another story. Then on to obedience. I cannot say how much everything changes for the better when you do classes with other dogs & people, especially if you have a hard dog with some working drive.