It was wonderful to see Jessica again, and she brought Lily also. Lil is VERY laid back, probably the calmest 6 month old GSP I've ever met. She was OK with being out in the dog yard with the circus, but I wonder if she would have been just as happy snoozing in the car, lol.

Charlie is a big boy- bigger than my shrimpy females, and he ended up fitting perfectly into a harness that Rogan might still be able to squeeze into. !!! Jessica was a little cautious about turning him out w/ my crew at first, but we put him in in the yard with Los Tres Horribles still in kennels and let him get over his silly barking fit and then let the dogs out one at a time. He got over it within minutes and ended up playing with everyone just fine.

He IS a little pushy at times, especially with poor Lily- who just rolls over and clearly hopes he'll just get bored if she doesn't do anything and leave her alone. I only saw him get slightly pushy a couple times with Los Tres and he clearly rethought that plan on the fly without anyone having to go off on him.

He seems to have an idea of what 'come' means, but is starting to get to that stage where he'll just meet your eye dead-on and wander off slowly as you're saying it. My advice was don't let him off leash, work on it in the yard to make double-plus sure he knows it well, then add an e-collar in that exact setting and get that down before letting him outside with it on. I don't know any other way he can be safe off-leash because he's clearly not above flipping the handler the bird so to speak.

I did get to run Charly on the scooter a couple times... he doesn't know what's going on and tends to stare at everything like he's never been outside, lol. I suspect it's a combination of immaturity and just needing more exposure and socialization. He got tangled once pretty well and stopped but didn't freak out at all, which is a good sign that he's got some resiliance.

Overall he seems like a sweet guy that's starting to enter that teenage phase. If he can get away with stuff he probably will, but I don't know that he's going to put up a ginormous struggle. Hopefully he'll come back over so he can hang with my crew a little more, as I think they're more willing than Jessica's poor longsuffering girls to let him have it if he starts being a brat. He definately seemed like he was being more careful with them than Lily.