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I made an older thread asking about dog friendly business's to take Vegas in for socialization. Now that he is 7 months old, Vegas has been in six different large name stores; Petco, Petsmart, Ace Hardware, Home Depot, Lowes, and Sportsmans Warehouse. Apart from Petso and Petsmart, I gave each of the other stores in my area a phone call before even heading out and spoke to someone to make sure their workplace was dog friendly. Generally, the places that don't actively sell food seem to be more willing to allow dogs.
Not only is the socialization invaluable, but it also gets Vegas more excited to go somewhere in the car, and he's been getting much less car sick. He's super people friendly, doesn't jump on people, and heels through the whole store. He will, however, lean towards someone he see's that may be interested in him, knowing that if he heads over to them there's sure to be pets followed.
He has also gone up a dog hike in SLC that we took with apoodleaday and Lacey last wednesday, though due to the fact that was the day we found Oslo dead (right when we got home) I haven't posted the pictures yet. The dog hike was over 6 miles total (3 up, 3 down) and had a dog lake at the top. He got lots of doggy socialization there as well.
Hope this helps with those of you with puppies wondering how to socialize them!
Vegas has also been into a neighborhood walmart, although he wasn't suppose to technically. My boyfriend works at one, and his manager is super fond of standards, so she needed a puppy fix and let me bring Vegas in.
Not only is the socialization invaluable, but it also gets Vegas more excited to go somewhere in the car, and he's been getting much less car sick. He's super people friendly, doesn't jump on people, and heels through the whole store. He will, however, lean towards someone he see's that may be interested in him, knowing that if he heads over to them there's sure to be pets followed.
He has also gone up a dog hike in SLC that we took with apoodleaday and Lacey last wednesday, though due to the fact that was the day we found Oslo dead (right when we got home) I haven't posted the pictures yet. The dog hike was over 6 miles total (3 up, 3 down) and had a dog lake at the top. He got lots of doggy socialization there as well.
Hope this helps with those of you with puppies wondering how to socialize them!
Vegas has also been into a neighborhood walmart, although he wasn't suppose to technically. My boyfriend works at one, and his manager is super fond of standards, so she needed a puppy fix and let me bring Vegas in.