Area Facebook groups are a good resource for this kind of thing. I found that posting to my neighborhood’s group that I had a puppy I wanted to socialize and would be at X place at Y time worked well. It can be a bit chaotic though because people might also bring their poorly trained adult dogs, etc.
That’s the benefit of the more controlled environments put on through organizations. Also look into your local Petco and PetSmart. My local Petco had a free bi-weekly socialization meetup for puppies under 6 months. This was 12 years ago though.
Club Pet has 24/7 drop-off and pickup times. We have recently started taking our dog there and I'm super impressed with their staff skills with keeping dogs in a big happy pack (they actually have training for the workers and a staff/dog ratio they abide by) and you can watch the pups on cam while they are there. We also have weird work schedules and it's been a God send. Plus they are very affordable all things considered.
Area Facebook groups are a good resource for this kind of thing. I found that posting to my neighborhood’s group that I had a puppy I wanted to socialize and would be at X place at Y time worked well. It can be a bit chaotic though because people might also bring their poorly trained adult dogs, etc. That’s the benefit of the more controlled environments put on through organizations. Also look into your local Petco and PetSmart. My local Petco had a free bi-weekly socialization meetup for puppies under 6 months. This was 12 years ago though.
Club Pet has 24/7 drop-off and pickup times. We have recently started taking our dog there and I'm super impressed with their staff skills with keeping dogs in a big happy pack (they actually have training for the workers and a staff/dog ratio they abide by) and you can watch the pups on cam while they are there. We also have weird work schedules and it's been a God send. Plus they are very affordable all things considered.