Training : Socialization : Places to go

Places to go to socialize your pup to adults:

• Main Street or the historic district of your town on a busy weekend-stroll the sidewalks and windowshop
• Visit all your local pet stores and keep your puppy inside the shopping cart
• Fourth of July fireworks events
• Open air flea markets in town
• Farmers' Markets
• Outdoor concert events
• Art/Jazz festivals held outdoors
• Town parades
• Eat outside on the patio of your favorite restaurants and take your puppy with you. Simply tie his leash to the foot of your chair.
• Visit garage sales with your puppy
• Outdoor high school sports events
• Home Depot/Lowes or your local hardware stores
• Have your coffee outdoors at a Starbucks
• Airport lobbies
• Senior Citizens' Centers or nursing homes

Places to go to socialize your pup to children:

• Walk past elementary schools as they let out
• Parking lots of places like the zoo
• Halloween Trick or treaters
• Neighborhood children
• Have your kids take puppy to show and tell at school
• Outside libraries

Places to go to socialize your pup to other dogs:
If your puppy does not have adequate immunity to Parvo or Distemper yet, please don't put it on the ground, but hold it in your arms instead, and make sure that it is only exposed to healthy dogs whom you know well. Do *not* take your puppy to dog parks until you are positive that it has adequate immunity to Parvo and Distemper.

• Puppy Kindergarten classes
• Basic obedience classes
• Show handling classes
• Friends' puppies and older dogs
• Dog Shows
• Pet Stores