Pickles has been super shy around people and other dogs so we decided to take him to his first puppy class tonight. The class was offered through the Boulder Humane Society for 8-12 week old puppies. To start out there was only one other puppy there, a fluffy little guy named Marti. Pickles curled up under the bench terrified. For some reason there were at least 5 trainers there. It took about 15 minutes for Pickles to come out and say hi to the people and start sniffing the other puppy. By then Seri, the husky had arrived. Then Pickles started to play a little bit. There were a couple of little tykes play slides that he absolute loved playing on. He kept running back and forth under then and was first to go up the slide. A wild lab mix showed up last and Pickles came out of his shell a little bit more. By the end he was walking up to all the people hoping for a treat and running around with the other puppies. He still had amazing recall though, I could go to the corner of the big room in the middle of him playing and call him and he would come running to see me. It was a super great experience, but I was very unimpressed with the training staff there, they didn't actually do anything except give the puppies treats. I think next we'll try the other Puppy Socialization class in town offered by Gigi Moss.
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