A Social Animal is born.....

Wonderful results from today's two puppy socials.
Trigger was pretty reserved at the first social but started playing with a tiny Boston puppy during the last quarter hour. They found a tunnel and took turns running through it. Sometimes Trigger would stand inside and Aston, the BT pup, would race under him between his legs and out the other end!
After he had a brief nap at home, I put him back in his crate for a ride down to the other session. He wasn't too interested in the other shy, small dogs but wasn't fearful either, so we put him on the other side of the fence with the more outgoing puppies. At first he did quite a bit of watching, but by the end of the hour he was wrestling with bigger obnoxious puppies.
What really broke the ice was when I started playing tug with another big puppy, then handed off my grip area of the toy to Trigger so he could play tug with the other puppy. A few times of that and he was a new man! He has discovered that other dogs are fun like his little buddy Gladys and I think it will just get better from here on out.