First dog playing with the new puppy...Any suggestions?

[Kelli, Fenway, & Dustin Pedroia]

My husband and I are getting our new goldendoodle puppy in April and we currently have a 9 month old labradoodle. She is a medium labradoodle but is only around 28lbs. right now (we expect her to get to be around 30-35lbs.) so she's not that big. Anyway, when she plays she likes to jump up on her back legs and use her front paws alot. When she plays with dogs that are smaller than she is I don't think that she realizes that she is a bigger dog and she often rolls them with her paws. I'm really worried about this and how she will play with the new puppy. She is not aggressive at all, but just plays kind of rough. Her favorite playmates are all bigger than her so this has never really been a problem, but I'm begining to get concerned about her playing safely with a new puppy. Any suggestions? Anyone have this concern before bringing home the second, third, etc addition? Should I be concerned? Help!

[Elmo the Bear]

Hi

We have a (now) 16 week old Goldendoodle pup along with a fifteen month old Goldendoodle (weighing in at around 90lbs) and a Labradoodle who will be two in May.. she probably weighs about 50lbs.

My advice would be to supervise play. It doesn't matter how well they all get on, a 90lb doodle on top of a pup is not something I want to think about! I know you're saying your current doodle is not so heavy but pup won't be able to match her for bounce and will always come off second best.

That said, ours get on well together and we always spend time with them having (supervised) play (the pup is currently chewing her way through my foot as I type)...

[Bev]

I LOVE you sitting on the dog pillow!!

[Kelli, Fenway, & Dustin Pedroia]

Thanks, I definitely will supervise play! I love your pictures. You have some very cute doodles! I'll up-date the discussion once I get the second doodle to let you know how she does.

[Kyoko]

I am still afraid that my old Chow Chow is going to get mad and bite Charlie one day.... He seems to feel as she is bothering him and annoying, since she always want jump up on him, grabs his face, nipps at his ears, etc.... We are very careful and when they are near each other, we keep very close eye on them...
Butter - Chow Chow is 13 years old, and has no interest in playing with Charlie...

[Bev]

I don't think you need to be concerned. Just watch the playing to be certain it doesn't get rough. My doods play and range from 50 lbs to 17 lbs. Sometimes two will gang up on one and little Gracie knows where to hide (under a pine tree) if things get to rough and tumble. Sometimes just saying play nice works. Good Luck!!

[Kelli, Fenway, & Dustin Pedroia]

I'm probably worrying about things that won't end up being an issue. I appreciate the responses from those of you that know though!

[Adina P]

They should be fine :-)
Thule tends to use her paws and once punched a puppy...but the puppy was fine :-)
they will probably more than likely run around and chase each other but if Rosco @ 80 pounds can play with 10 to 12-week-old puppies and not squash them I'm sure that yours will do great with a puppy :-)

[Kelli, Fenway, & Dustin Pedroia]

I really appreciate everyone's advice and help although it may be a moot point now. I just found out yesterday that the Mama of our expected puppies is not pregnant anymore. She was pregnant when they did the pregnancy test earlier this month and now she's not. This has happened twice so the breeder is going to spay her and let a family adopt her to be a cherished pet. I'm really sad and not sure what we're going to do. The breeder offered to let us pick a puppy out of the two litters she has now, but they will go home much sooner than our puppy and the timing is not as good. I'm a speech language pathologist in the schools and won't be out for the summer yet. The puppy will not have someone home with it as often and that worries me. I'm torn. My husband says it's up to me and that we'll make it work if we need to, but I just don't know how a little puppy can stay home that long by itself. I may post in the main forum and ask for advice there. Thanks again to all of you!