Should this worry me?

[seamonkey]

Matilda had her first supervised play date this weekend. She plays with George at home, but we don't really let her approach the neighborhood dogs because one of my neighbors has an aggressive dog who attacked my Akita and George several times when the owner let her off leash and most of my neighbors are older retired people with older smaller dogs that probably don't want to play.

She was well behaved on the play date, but she is a huge licker. I'm not sure why, but my foster kitten will just sit there while she licks him soggy.

While she was there, she would sniff butts and let them sniff hers, but once they were, I guess, introduced, she would want to start licking the other dog in the face and I don't want her getting in another dogs face trying to lick them and that dog get annoyed and try to bite her.

She's 7 months old and we haven't seen any signs of aggression yet and she is a mix. So far, she has not learned not everything is play time, but I don't want to introduce her to it that way

[pitbullmamaliz]

Many dogs are obnoxiously obsequious - I believe Patricia McConnell calls them that. They try so hard to not be offensive that, well, they're offensive! She's coming to that age where she's going to lose her puppy license for annoying behavior, so you're right to be mindful of it. If you see the other dog getting annoyed, call her away.

[megan]

Agree with Liz. I had an adult foster who was like this and he would do it with Roxy, who is not exactly appreciative of the in-your-face-lick-extravaganza. The challenge with him was that he was fearful so I couldn't redirect, or even call his name, without scaring him, so I had to mark and reward Roxy for any face contact or perceived potential face contact so she got more comfortable with it before we were able to redirect him without scaring him. But the ideal situation would be to redirect Matilda or call her to you so another dog doesn't snark at her instead. You could also stop the interaction and do some quick training games / practice with both dogs.... it could serve two purposes, 1. interrupt the licking in the moment and 2. teach her a different way to be around other dogs without licking.