The first thing I noticed about Katie and puppy socialization is that she isn’t very social.  There were two labs, a Boston terrier, and an English spaniel in our class.  They are all about the same age, 4-5 mos.  The labs love to roll around on the floor with each other, the terrier loves to terrorize everyone, and the spaniel hates everyone.  Katie was most interested in sniffing around the edges of the gym away from the fray.  I’d pick her up and plop her down in the midst of the fun and she’d wander away.  She wasn’t the least bit interested in any of them.

She did great during the exercise where we passed the puppies around the circle and everyone got to hold everyone else’s puppy.  She got along with everyone.  Toward the end of our hour she would lie down at every chance she could get.  One of the lab puppies actually fell asleep.  They were all exhausted.

Last night she fell asleep on the sofa at 8, half an hour after we got home.  I woke her up to go outside at 11 and she slept the rest of the night.  This morning she didn’t bark to get me up at 6, I got her up at 7.  She slept all morning.  I wonder if socialization has broken her spirit?  The truth will tell when I get home from my final tonight after she has slept all day.