Hello everyone. I have a 10 year old husky male, and we just recently (yesterday) added a new 10 week old English mastiff male puppy to the family. The husky has never been excellent with other dogs, but he seems to be doing OK with the new puppy. Has only growled a couple times, hasn't snapped yet (hopefully never) but I think that's just due to super close supervision between them. They haven't really "played" yet and my husky isnt really a player.
When they are outside, though, my husky just doesn't seem to know how to play or let him be a puppy. Every time he slightly moves faster than a walk my husky gets laser focused and tries to run after him, it almost looks like prey drive. I stop him every time I see this. He will also try to hump the new puppy as well which we stop as soon as we see. Just today the husky knocked him over after chasing him and kind of ran over him, which made him yelp and then the husky kind of ran away a bit with his ears down and didn't continue any sort of aggressive attack.
Its confusing because his tail will be up wagging a bit, he will bark a couple times, but then he will stare intently and paw at him seemingly try to instigate him to run just so he can chase him. How do I stop this stalking chasing behavior? Am I doing things correctly stepping in at these moments?
TIA just trying to make everyone comfortable in the house
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