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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Molly is our only dog but she has been well socialized with a
variety of other neighborhood dogs including Goldens, mixes, Labs, and a couple
other bassets. She is 14 months old, so really still a puppy. She gets very
excited when we visit or when the other dogs come over with their people. She
tends to calm down after a little play time and fits nicely into a place in her
several packs except with the other basset who is a 5 year old neut. Male. She
incessantly follows him and licks his jowls and/or licks his drool. Anthropomorphizing
this behavior has us thinking that she does identify more with the other basset
as she treats him with hyper activity. He spent the weekend with us a few
months back while his people were out of town and it took the better part of a
day for her to calm down and stop it although when excited she starts up
again. You can tell he is annoyed as he has the “give me some space to
breathe” look on his face, but he has not yet really dominated her and made
her stop. He usually just gives a rough bark and hip checks her to get some
breathing room. Once they do calm down they can play and chase and do not
fight. We have assumed this was a puppy trait that she will have to be taught
out of it by the other dogs. Since she does not do this behavior with humans
should we even step in or just let the dogs sort it out? The reason I am
asking is that we are taking in our first foster Sunday and he is a 10 year old
male and I expect her to do this to him. My hope is that they will sort it
out, but do want to step in if I am supposed to do something. Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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