Joey's breeder told me to take him lots of places, but don't put him around other dogs until 2 weeks after his 16 week shots. It takes a couple of weeks to get the immunity, right after the shot, they are a little sick sometimes. Anyway, another problem I have with taking a Yorkie that young and small to puppy classes is most the dogs in puppy classes are much bigger breeds, and a large breed puppy is often very clumsy, Joey was older, but he was trampled by the larger puppies in his class. They didn't have a small breed class, so we signed up for trick training instead. The dogs in that class were all adults and very well behaved, so nobody jumped on Joey. The trainers in these classes are not often that great, one told me to take Joey to a dog park to help with socialization, and he got trampled there too. Anyway, if I were you, I’d wait until he was older, and I’d try to find a small breed puppy class. I feel like some of the things we did to try to help socialize Joey, ended up making him more fearful. |