Hello.. first time on the board and I have already learned so much, thank you.. I wish I knew about this site when all my dogs were puppies.

We just brought home our newest member to the family last friday, Kaiser. He is 11 weeks old and already 24 lbs. We have owned many German Shepherds (5 total) in the last 20 years, all of them family house pets. Usually when we brought them home they had other larger dogs to play with. But since our oldest "Mia" died of cancer last year we only had "bandit" our pomeranian left.

Now the question. Bandit is only 1/2 the size of Kaiser and he is four years old. Most of the time Bandit will tolerate Kaiser but now that Kaiser is feeling more at home and doing what puppies do.. tromping all over Bandit, Bandit is starting to growl at Kaiser when he gets too frisky. I don't know if I should let this happen or not. When Kaiser is full grown he will be about 100 lbs. and bandit will still be only 10 lbs. and that is a large pomeranian. Kaiser needs to know Bandits limits. Do I let them work this out? Or do I put a stop to it? Mind you, I would never let my dogs fight, I am the alpha bitch, but when they are outside most of the time Kaiser will just walk right on bandits head when he is told to come inside.

What do you think?

Read these articles...

http://www.leerburg.com/introducingdogs.htm

http://www.leerburg.com/puppygroundwork.htm

...and follow those rules -- all should work out well <:-)

Thank you.. those helped very much