You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your

host Debbie Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 58 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today we're going to

talk about how to tell if your dog or your puppy is playing appropriately with

their doggy friends.

So my goal here is that you'll be more confident to know,

okay, do I step in and separate and let them rest for a second because it's gotten too much or if you just let

them play because they're having fun. And specifically I am going to be talking about like their

doggy friends.

So like if he's playing with his neighbor

or maybe his doggy cousin or even at the dog park.

If you want more information about two dogs

who live together and like that dynamics especially if you bring in a

puppy and you have an older dog. I have an episode on that which is episode 34 but

if you have say two adolescent dogs or even a puppy and an older

dog that do play together and sometimes it gets a little rough and you're not sure,

this episode will also help with that so stick around because that's

exactly what I'm going to talk about now the reason why I want to go over this is

because I not only get this question a lot but it's because dog play can be

concerning if you're not used to it. So if you're a new dog owner or even an older dog owner, it's really hard unless you know you're somebody like me who's been studying dog behavior and dog play or you know an owner of a daycare who is trained in knowing when dog play is

inappropriate or not it can be really hard to tell especially because dog

play is essentially dog play fighting. So yes, they use

their mouths, they bite at each other's necks, they pin each other down.

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