Puppies Playing....

[ash&elar]

Well i have a 18week old toy poodle FEZ, he is a happy go lucky lil fella and loves everyone and maybe likes to give the animals a bit of a stir , My family is currently living at my parents farm while me and my partner save to buy our own place and they have a whippet puppy cindy who is about 20weeks old, now these two get along like a house on fire eat, play and sleep together all day BUT as they get older and the whippet out grows him she is not tonning down the pace for lil FEZ who has pretty much stayed the same size, she is biting him hard enough to make him yelp (usually the back of his neck, legs or tail) i will usually split them up before FEZ gets upset but a couple of times i have been too slow and FEZ has seriously told her off with showing his teeth and warning snapping at her face and in no way making it known he has had enough but Cindy just keeps going and if anything gets more crazy and over boustrious jumping on him as i walk over to tell them off and split them up, I wanted to ask as i remember reading in another post something about the way dogs play fight (or maybe it was just real fights) that if cindy is biting his legs and generally knocking him down and biting places that upset him is she being rude in a doggy way??? FEZ always just mouths her face and side of neck shoulder even though he is the smaller dog and her legs/feet would be easier for him. I know the solution is for me to of course be suppervising them so that neither get hurt, But is there some sort of dog manners that most dogs just know to follow when interacting with others? To me Cindy seems like a puppy who was taken away from mum and litter too early and not taught her manners but she was with mum and half of litter until 11 weeks old. Hope my post makes sense?

[aussielover]

Is Cindy goind to a puppy school? If not, I would recommend she start one (she is a bit old for puppy preschool now, bu there are some puppy classses that take older puppies and some puppy classes have a follow on class after pupppy school).

Does little Fez run back and try to play with Cindy after you have separated them? I often find this a useful way of knowing whether the play was just play or whether one of the pups really has been upset.

I don't think biting on the legs etc when playing is neccesarily rude, but if the other dog doesn't like it, they will let you know!

unless they have been very deprived of socialisation, puppies should generally be aware of doggy manners. I would try and let both your pups, but particularly Cindy, interact with a well behaved and well socialised older dog, they should learn some doggy manners by doing this. Playing with other pups their age may not help them develop good dog manners as the other pup is often just as clueless.

[ash&elar]

Is Cindy goind to a puppy school? If not, I would recommend she start one (she is a bit old for puppy preschool now, bu there are some puppy classses that take older puppies and some puppy classes have a follow on class after pupppy school).

Does little Fez run back and try to play with Cindy after you have separated them? I often find this a useful way of knowing whether the play was just play or whether one of the pups really has been upset.

I don't think biting on the legs etc when playing is neccesarily rude, but if the other dog doesn't like it, they will let you know!

unless they have been very deprived of socialisation, puppies should generally be aware of doggy manners. I would try and let both your pups, but particularly Cindy, interact with a well behaved and well socialised older dog, they should learn some doggy manners by doing this. Playing with other pups their age may not help them develop good dog manners as the other pup is often just as clueless.

Hi, no Cindy doesnt go to puppy school, me and my sister have been waiting to take both FEZ and Cindy to dog obedience though, usually once i have had to stop them from playing FEZ will go curl up and go to sleep sometimes i remove one to outside for a break so one is outside and one inside, FEZ will be trying to move away from the playing when this happens and Cindy will follow him and keep carrying on and when he tells her off she does a runner to the other lounge room zooms a lap then comes running straight back into him, i think she has just got excess energy but i dont want her taking it out on FEZ esp when she is just going to keep growing and he is not!!! Yes i think the playing with adult dog is a good idea but most of my friends live hrs away and most do not have dogs or dogs that i would trust and our old dog midge is past puppies she is living out her lasts days sleeping nice and warm and going for her own seperate walks as she is getting chiropracter work from the vet for a bad back and the pups hurt her as she is only small. I have been worried about the two pups growing up together because they are already teaching each other bad habbits :p FEZ likes to dig when he gets excited ;) and cindy loves to chew anything up and when i stand and watch em playing outside i can see em egging each other on.....