You can do a lot of socialization in your own house!

Don't discount the number of experiences your pup can have right in your house.

You can even create your own lists of things in your house and gradually work through them. Think of all the senses and make a list of items in your house that fall under each sense heading.

Sounds: The vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, dishwasher, TV, radio, wind, furnace, washing machine, dryer, water running, toilet flushing, shower noises, bird, leaf blower, lawn mower, snow blower, salt trucks, trucks and cars going by, people talking on street, other dogs barking, faraway hammering or building noises, silverware being poured out of the dishwasher, dishes clanging, and so forth.

Sights: (you get the idea)

Feelings: touching a variety of surfaces, temperatures, steepnesses, heights, as well as water both warm and cold, and so on.

I don't know if smells and tastes are relevant. I guess they could be--smells, at least. But I can't think of a dog being frightened by a smell in the way that he could be by a loud hammering noise or something.

Anyway, you get the idea.

Jack, for example, is asked to follow me around the basement. He was too chicken at first. So I brought the Boston into it. The Boston follows me anywhere and Jack follows the Boston anywhere, so that was fantastic. The one place Jack froze was when I asked him to walk past the roaring furnace, on a narrow and somewhat dark path into the laundry room. Even though the Boston went with me, Jack stopped, sat down, and cried. We tried coaxing him--never petting or rewarding him. Finally, I picked him up and held him near the ground, then moved him along the path into the laundry room. We did this a few times, and after that, Jack came on his own, past the furnace, through the dark little area and into the laundry room. Much praise!