Hyde is the only male dog I have ever owned. So this humping thing is new to me. I had him netured about a month ago maybe a little longer. I kn ow it takes a while for the hormones to leave the body, but hyde has been humping my girls, he does this when they are playing or running around. When he tries to hump one of them, I yell his name and say stop. Will this be effective or is there some other way to teach him its not ok? I want to teach him this now while he is young, cause I dont want him to be one of those dogs at the park that has to hump everydog he sees. So far its only been my girls he does it too.
I dont think a spray bottle would work cause he doesnt mind being sprayed with the hose, so I bet a squirt from the sprayer wouldnt bother him much.
He is just showing his dominance over them. My dads pit puppy and my cousins weiner dog always humo around on each other...and they are both neutered males....
My girl Tanya can catch and hump anything on 4 legs... She is real persistant about it, and just is not going to settle until she does her thing. When her sister Teddy was here she would race out ahead of Tanya, but Tanya would catch her and not let her go potty until she had done a thorough job on her. It looked like Teddy would laugh at her... Now Tanya plays with Buck. As he is matured at a year and a half, he gets the funniest look on his face when she tries to grab him. He is heavy enough to grab her back [she is real big]. They wrestle real hard when they go out, but I think Buck keeps his dignity, nowadays...Sometimes he ends up on his back, kicking her off, but he does not put up with her nonsense. Yelling at your dog may stop the behavior, depending on how dominate/subordinate your dog is. It does no good with Tanya, who is totally Alpha. I think it makes it worse, actually, because the dog she is subordinating starts to fight back when I take her side, and I then risk a dogfight, as Tanya will ever be Queen of the yard...
Lilly used to hump Rufus on a daily basis, She is 13 months now and has not really done it for awhile now. It is just a once in awhile thing now. She was about 5 months now.
Zoe humps everything on a regular basis. Regardless of if it has 2 legs, 4 legs, or what matter its made out of . If its a thing Zoe's going to hump it.
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Has anyone tried to Alpha roll the dog when it exibits this behavior and give a firm command that it will not be tolerated during the alpha roll? Some dogs will respond but make sure you know how to roll your dog first. When my dog was small he tried to hump things and we rolled him about three times and he stop, I don't think he liked to be rolled and commanded so quickly. It takes them by suprise and they seem to learn quickly that the behaivor isn't worth the roll. But hey some dogs are just horn dogs even if fixed.
If I take after Tanya, or yell at her, she gets more aggressive with her victims. When I leave her alone, she does what she thinks is necessary to the other dog, then goes her way... It used to bother me, because I thought it was real unfair that she would not let Teddy potty first But then I just thought it was funny, I would give Ted a head start out the back door, releasing Tanya second, and would say "run Teddy, run" Some dogs, also alpha, don't submit to it, that is where you could have a fight. With my older b!tches, Tanya would sidle up, and they would roll an eye like "I DON"T THINK SO" I did not often put them together, because Tanya has more instinct than good sense. She would be rather frightened of dogs she could not dominate, like her brain just could not get around the idea, and she would look real worried.
on his face when she tries to grab him. He is heavy enough to grab her back [she is real big]. They wrestle real hard when they go out, but I think Buck keeps his dignity, nowadays...Sometimes he ends up on his back, kicking her off, but he does not put up with her nonsense.
