2 totally different pups

[Angels of Fur]

Hiya, just wondered if anyone had any thoughts or Advice or whether is just normal?
Alfie is the older of the 2 - by 2 weeks, he is a big cuddly bear around people he knows, with new people he can be a bit reserved - no problem, He has now developed a very protective streak around me OH and Honey - be it when another dog approaches honey in a way that Alfie doesnt like.
Honey is VERY excitable, nothing scares her, she just wants to be-friend everyone and every dog possible, which worried me slightly, what if she tried to be-friend the wrong dog ? Honey's recall is good and when we see other dogs we try to keep her distracted, but she responds to recall - however only when she has said hello.
Problem i have is when Honey's being over friendly, will it then trigger Alfie to be protective? and maybe try and go for the other dog.
How can i try to make Honey less sociable, only because i worry, and then as a result Alfie may not be overly protective.
To date, never had a problem, only that Alfie fended off the next door neighbours dog and went for her because she was trying to play with Honey on ALFIES terratory.

[Cob-Web]

Do you walk/train/socialise them separately?   They clearly have very different training needs at the moment, and you will need to give them both loads of one to one time in order to address them; and then once you have established good behaviour when they are on their own, then you can take them out together and reinforce the behaviour you have trained.

I have learnt loads since having two dogs, a lot of it the hard way - and one of my biggest lessons was that when I do take them out together to work on a specific training issue, then I have focus on one of them and ignore any transgressions that the other one may display - so if I want to work on Bonnee barking at other dogs (which she no long does when take her out on her own, but does if Molo is with us) I focus on her and will ignore Molo for pulling on the lead, for instance 

Both the problems you describe - Alfie guarding you from other dogs, and Honey being over-friendly, are common problems in dogs entering adolescence and there are lots of threads that suggest solutions and approaches that might help - and training them separately will be necessary before they can be expected to behave well with the added distraction of the other