Behaviour between 2 dogs/puppies?

Question

I've just adopted a new puppy, very suddenly. My husband rescued her from being euthanised (as were the rest of her litter mates.)
I have an 11month old beagle mix, who is EXTREMELY active. She's a very hyper dog, needs lots of exercise and attention. The puppy is a bassett hound, and she's about 10 weeks old.
I've never really had more than one dog at a time, except for brief periods, like fostering.. but nothing that required intensive training.
My beagle wants to put her paw on the puppy's head, she likes to knock her over. If the puppy is sleeping or sitting still (she's reaaaaaaallly lazy), it seems to drive the beagle nuts. She will start biting at her muzzle and putting her paw on her head.
Is this behaviour unacceptable? Is this a dominance issue?
I'm really not sure how to LET them behave together, I don't want them to form bad habits, but obviously I want them to play.

I don't want her to dominate the puppy. So I have been correcting it.
I was definitely under the impression that I should be the only dominant dog, and the beagle already has dominance issues. She often tries to hump my cats. So I guess the real question should have been.. is this playing, or a dominance thing?

Answer 1

what their doing is fine, however, if it worries you you should correct the dog.

Answer 2

Your beagle puppy is showing her dominance with the paw to the head. She is oldest and she was there first. She is just establishing the pecking order. As long as she is not hurting the other puppy, they will be fine. Give the new one time to grow a bit, and she will be playing with your beagle all day! I'm sure they will be friends.

Answer 3

It's not unacceptable behavior in my house (but I don't know what professionals would say...) When my hyper dog wants to play, he does the same thing. The other dog will either start playing or growl a little to say, "leave me alone!" I don't worry about it, because they are good at working it out themselves.