Does your doodle like puppies?

[Discussing Labradoodles & Goldendoodles]

Normally when someone brings a puppy into the dog park, the adult dogs try to boss it around. Well, Noah is the opposite. He loves puppies and greets them very gently. Noah is 11 months and guess what, he gets bossed around by PUPPIES! Believe it or not, but a 3.5 month old lab/chow puppy was bullying Noah today at the park. The puppy may have been a few pounds bigger than Noah, but you would think an 11 month old dog would not let a puppy boss him around. Instead, Noah let the puppy pin him down and sit on his face! The other day he was playing with a 4 month old, 60lb great dane puppy and granted the puppy had close to a 40lb advantage over Noah, but my 11lb maltipoo was quickly able to put the great dane pup in his place.

[Sandy]

Toby loves puppies! They are his favourite playmates at the dog park. And they are always the boss over him too. :)

[Adina P]

Mine are not really "into" puppies but they don't mind them and Rosco can play a little too rough at times.
First time I took R and T to meet a friend's pup, they COMPLETELY ignored it for a long time and mostly sniffed around the yard. Eventually they played.... R a little too rough at times. Thule mostly told it to behave.

Another time Thule punched a puppy...knocked the poor thing on its tail pretty hard. She's just paw oriented at times..

[HANNAH 8/2/07 & HONEY 7/2/08]

Hannah loves to be around puppies, she is also great playing with the smaller adult dogs and I wonder sometimes if she thinks they are puppies. Honey on the other hand at the dog park didn't care for this pup who really should of been in with puppies at the time, but it was a bull terrior (Spuds McKenzie dog), and he was nasty. Relentlessly snapping and barking in her face and the kind of dog that did not stop, very highly aggressive, I guess because of this dogs aggression as a young pup they thought it was okay to put it in with the big dogs? I have also noticed she loves to play with Hannah, but not when other dogs start to chase her... if she starts the run.

[Sue & Willy Babe]

Oh yes Wilson loves puppies he would rather play with little dogs too instead of the big guys His buddies are little dogs and as soon as the puppy behind us can play with everyone that will make the mixture more exciting.

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Peri is only 5 months, so she is still that "annoying puppy" at the dog park; however, she is so submissive that I am sure at 11-12 months, she will let the puppies beat her up! She just rolls over and lets any dog have their way! Good thing we are getting her spayed next week. I think this is common for the doodles...a temperment thing. Taquito my chihuahua will put ANY dog in its place, even a Mastiff. No joke!

[CCMOM("Diney")]

Curly is a 65-lb giant but he is a gentle giant. he loves dogs and cats and kids, no size or age limits. he is a "licker". I've witnessed him licking a cat at his foster mom's house!

[Lorraine Bromley]

Neely loves puppies. He is almost 8 mths. He does use his big paws alot and does knock them over. It is hilarious. He also loves to wrestle with his front paws. He is so gentle with the puppies. They may get a couple of knocks that flip them over but up they get and away they go again.
I was sad the other day when I met a family members new puppy and it is just 10 wks. Neely was so excited to see it and I was holding him back so that he stays close to the ground and doesn't jump at them first thing. The puppy was leashed as was Neely. Neely started to paw at him and it started to nip at Neely and was a bit timid but it would back off them leap in. It started to bark at Neely playfully and then every time the dog would get close to playing she would pull him away ansthat just made Neely try and leap forward to it. She didn't want the dog to bark. So she didn't want them t play together.
Neely was standing back with me on the leash as we moved away from the puppy and he was leaping straight in the air and flipping around so excited.
If she had let her dog come and just play it wouldn't of needed to bark at all and it would have been a good socializing tool. I had to take Neely away.
She mentioned the vet had said to take the dog everywhere including stores and she said why woud I do that its not like I'm going to take him in stores when hes older so why do it now. I tryed to gently explain socialisation and used Neelys experience over the last few months and what he's been exposed to but that probably went in one ear and out the other with the way Neely was acting after not being able to play with the puppy.
I also like it when the little puppies get under Neely and he can't see them and has to look around and leap and twist when he gets a nip to find them. He's lucky other owners let such a big dog play with thier puppies.