Blending dog family

[cleowasmycat]

I have a 7 year old pug and my DP HAS A 10 year old English bill terrier. We would like to live together but whenever the dogs are together they jump on each other incessantly and don't stop until pulled apart. They aren't fighting but we're worried about accidental injury. Any thoughts? Thanks

Separate them using a stairgate if you want to stop the behaviour until they get used to each other.
Are they humping or just playing?

A bit of both! The bull terrier has been done but not the pug.

Any other advice?

We've just got a puppy and we had this initially with our older dog being smothered by her play fighting.

We use a mix of keeping them apart (puppy is in the kitchen most of the day because of the kids anyway).

We also give them something to do, such as a stuffed Kong or a chew.

And finally if they do get too much, I'd shout "dogs" and make a "schhhh" noise which gets their attention and then I'd snuggle up with one on the sofa to keep them apart.

It's taken a bit of work and intervention but now we have lovely peaceful evenings, I let them go as wild as they like in the garden which helps burn off steam. Oddly they don't do it on walks, too much to see and smell!

Playing is fine if they both want it but with the difference in size you need to supervise that it's not too rough. The way to find out if they both actually enjoy the play is to break it up by removing the more boisterous dog see to the other one comes to him looking for more play. If you google 'consent in dog play' you'll see this demonstrated online.
Humping - don't tolerate it at all, it's bad dog manners and stressful. It's motivated either by stress or overexcitement but neither are what you want to encourage.

Is there a reason the pug hasn't been neutered?

How about taking them for a walk together then bringing them back into the house together?
When separate teach a settle command?
Are they used to being crated? Have them crated separately but in the same room?
Room divider?
Hope you can work it out.

No reason pug not been done - planning on in new year.

Neither are crated, both sleep on the bed.

Lots of calm activites when together preferable outside with lots of space.

Parallel walking is great with a big distance between each of you - they need to know the other dog is there but not near enough to be interesting.

Scatter feeding again a way apart so there is no guarding issue low grade boring kibble, the dogs are doing other things in each others company but not jumpig and humping each other. Keep them on leads to prevent them approaching each other.

Also try the consent game, If they are humping remove the dog that is doing so just hold the harness and move them away, watch what the other dog does. DOes he approach the dog to initate more play or is he happy to wander off and do his own thing. This helps to see the relationship between the two dogs.

In the house again let them do things apart but in each others company so basic training with your parnter of each dog. Just ask for sits and heelwork etc that they can do. It gets them used to being around each other but not be crazy with each other.

Encourage settle activities on mats or laps in the sitting room. If they want to play not in that room, then you will begin to get one room where all is quiet and peaceful