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My girl dogs are ahmm a bit shall we say 'forward' when they are coming into and in heat. They hump eachother, fixed boys etc etc.
Humping happens for many reasons, only one of them is a social status display (and in almost all cases, dominant dogs do not hump others to show dominance...they do it in other ways)
Humping happens for many reasons, only one of them is a social status display (and in almost all cases, dominant dogs do not hump others to show dominance...they do it in other ways)
Agreed! Molly just might simply be playing with him, and really enjoying the game. => It might not be "dominance" so to speak, but perhaps she just knows she can get away with that with him - Auggie would hump Happy, but not Kota, because he knew he could get away with it with Happy (and that Kota would kick his butt if he tried it.)
Daisy does it when she and Benji play. I don't know that there would be social tension between a 75lb dog and 20lb dog who live together and pine when one of them leaves the house without the other.
Oh I forgot, Daisy also humped the intact female pit X who comes over to play. I think the pit X was in heat at the time. That I think could be social tension. Maybe humping means different things in different contexts?
Oh I forgot, Daisy also humped the intact female pit X who comes over to play. I think the pit X was in heat at the time. That I think could be social tension. Maybe humping means different things in different contexts?
That's actually more along the lines of what I was trying to say. But instead of "dominance" I'd replace that with "social tension". And then there's the play solicitation thing, and also sometimes every now and then it really is about sex!
Conrad uses it as a play solicitation, but also as an expression of social tension with dogs he's not sure about, and I can tell the difference between the two. His body language right before he does it is very different if he's playing or if he's having a social issue. He's probably the least "dominant" dog on the planet, which is the entire root of his problem. He can behave, I'll be honest, like a jerk because he's insecure, not because he's so big and bad and confident. Those types of dogs, the confident ones, tend to just ignore other dogs and do their own thing. Marlowe only uses it as a play solicitation, I've never seen him hump for social reasons. Though a cousin has an as-yet-unspayed (sigh) weimeraner that, even though Marlowe is snipped, he was quite adamant about humping--but he kept trying to do it to the wrong end. He wasn't neutered until he was over 2 years old and may even have been used at stud in his previous life, so he sort of still remembers what that whole scene is all about.
Conrad uses it as a play solicitation, but also as an expression of social tension with dogs he's not sure about, and I can tell the difference between the two. His body language right before he does it is very different if he's playing or if he's having a social issue. He's probably the least "dominant" dog on the planet, which is the entire root of his problem. He can behave, I'll be honest, like a jerk because he's insecure, not because he's so big and bad and confident. Those types of dogs, the confident ones, tend to just ignore other dogs and do their own thing. Marlowe only uses it as a play solicitation, I've never seen him hump for social reasons. Though a cousin has an as-yet-unspayed (sigh) weimeraner that, even though Marlowe is snipped, he was quite adamant about humping--but he kept trying to do it to the wrong end. He wasn't neutered until he was over 2 years old and may even have been used at stud in his previous life, so he sort of still remembers what that whole scene is all about.
Sarama is female and has always had that habit, though it was much worse before she was spayed. With her, it seems to be something of a dominance thing . . . but more in the bullying-you-because-you-will-let-me-get-away-with-it sense than in the I'm-trying-to-dominate-you sense. Social tension, or status-seeking, are probably better descriptions than 'dominance' honestly . . . especially since she's been spayed, I've almost taken it as 'neener-neener-neener you wimp!' than anything sexual, agressive, or even particularly dominant.
Daisy went through a phase where she'd hump Gunnar when they were playing. She'd already been spayed so it wasn't a hormone thing. It lasted for a couple months, and now she doesn't do it anymore. Our late Midnite would hump the other dogs. She was a spayed female as well. Yet, my intact male, the one who is allegedly supposed to have all kinds of issues because he's not fixed, doesn't hump any of them. He's the top dog in the chain too, clearly dominant over all of them.
Dan, that is how it is in my house. Kaiden, my 'lead' male so to speak, who is not fixed, humps nothing. And really has no issues in that regard (I can work him around girls in a standing heat..he is a bit less focused, but never leaves me will even do an out of sight sit and down stay beside a girl in heat!) even though he has been bred.
Spanky (he's a boy so this is slightly irrelevant) humps other dogs. I think it is so funny when he humps Bandit because Bandit is no doubt the boss dog in the pack but he lets Spanky hump him. I usually tell him to stop but I'll admit some times I just get a giggle out of it. I'm horrible I know but when you are overly tired the dumbest things become amusing.
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Molly is spayed. The only dog she does it to (so far) is Rupert a 10 month old black lab. She loves playing with him as they both like to box and wrestle. Don't know why she started the humping thing. Also, Rupert doesn't discourage her where I think other dogs might not put up with it. Thanks for all the input.