[YorkieMother]

Here is my stand on this.... pups in there own yard if clean and safe can be out as soon as they can walk and should be. Litter of ten BRTS out and about at soon as they could follow me. Before first shots. People in to visit as soon as they had first shots and just before with care.

Now have had several pups including the new tiny one in class on two sets of shots.
I have had pups out and about in public in a front pack as soon as they have one set of shots.

You need to have your pup see and be seen and touch smell and feel 100 people, places, dogs, other animals and sounds and smells by 18 weeks.

The risk of getting a puppy hood illness is way less then a dog locked up for its full set of shots being undersoicalized and live a really rough life time of fear cause of it. We in this household because of someone else not soicalizing well enough a pup live with massive fear issuses and anxiety now for 9 years in one very speical little yorkie girl.

We plan never to do that again as we have had to work through fear issuse with a big Black russain terrier boy that the breeder never exposed to childern and enough strange sounds that it almost got him put down.

Soical skills can be done from your arms but get them out and get the learning.

JL