How are we doing exposure training/socialization in winter?

By the time we get out of work, it’s dark.

What we’ve been doing is walking around the neighborhood at night on weekdays & then using weekends to go to parks and stuff.

What can we do on weekdays? The reason I haven’t been going to stores and stuff is because he is not at the point where he can be that close to people/dogs and staying calm. Should we go anyways? I am worried he will be above threshold and it would do more harm than good.

We had puppy classes on Mondays but that ended. We learned a lot doing those classes, but he was above threshold during that too. He’s just a very very alert dog & he focuses very hard on his surroundings.

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