Healthy play? Update
Hello! I posted a video here a little while with a video of my older dog and my 8 week puppy playing asking if it was healthy play, I was going to update there but it wouldn’t let me post a video in the comments and I’m still learning how to use Reddit lol. Since then, they have been having more time to play with eachother off leash, inside outside and all over. They are both still learning boundaries and I will have to tell both to leave eachother alone, because sometimes one or the other will continue to play when the other is done, as you will see in this new video it is my older one I have to tell to calm down, but they both do it. So I’m curious of is this a bad thing? Obviously they are still heavily supervised during play because they both will over play with eachother. Is there anything else I should be doing to ensure both are not being pushed or so it doesn’t lead into something else? When my older dog is laying down and they are playing the puppy has a blast, but then when he is standing, she will play a little bit and back off and then go back to play, then back off again sometimes because he is doing to much and other times to get away, take a break etc. Also, my older dog doesn’t seem to care when my puppy is on his bedding in the house, will even lay next to her. But when it comes outside he does not want her on it, which I do understand either way and immediately removed the puppy from the bed. In the video you will see her go away from him, when he becomes too much, and I have to tell him to back off because she hasn’t really learned to tell him when to back off yet. I think I’m more so wondering does it seem playful, or is my older one being an a hole? should I let it continue? To add, neither has snapped at eachother with aggression during play, from what I can tell they seem to enjoy messing with eachother but other eyes would be nice. Thank you!
Please ignore the dog hair everywhere, if you know you know 😂