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I meet up with Jazzy and her dog Veronica once a week for walks. We have been meeting up for over a month and Veronica and Socrates still haven't played off leash together. Veronica is dog reactive so in the beginning we only walked them on opposite sides of the street and slowly moved toward each other. Now she is so happy to see him, she pulls toward him all wiggly butted. We allow on leash play time after a walk and obedience exercises. Our meet ups are really more for training purposes than anything. Veronica has become much less reactive and we bring long leashes to practice sits downs and stays with the other dogs around as a distraction. We also practice CGC test items (greeting eachother without the dogs going toward eachother).

I would suggest a walk together before play time to let them get use to eachother and burn off some energy. Get break sticks and watch them like a HAWK. Be right there and prepared to separate them if need be. I wouldn't allow off leash play until they have had time to get use to each other and have played on leash for a while to be sure they will be OK. Take it slowwww.