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Originally Posted by alishasmom  Since we are on that subject, what happens if they never hump? Mine will be a year soo. She has never humped anything or anybuddy |
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Originally Posted by lil fu fu girl I had no idea that humping was a dominant issue! No wonder my Yorkie thought he was the king of the castle. He would always try to hump my leg while doing dishes when I had my hands full and could not get him.
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I have this Maltese/Jack Russell female that looks like the perfect little white poodle...but one of her nicknames early on was "Evil Doggie," so that should give you a clue.
After we had had her about 8 months or so (she was about 2), she started humping my husband's leg and if I tried to stop her, she'd get aggressive with me. Hubby thought the humping was funny, so he didn't make her stop. She got more and more aggressive and possessive of my husband!
Finally, one day at the vet for some other reason, I asked him about it and he said that it is a dominance behaviour, not a sexual peccadillo...the dominant dog puts him (her)self above the others and asserts that s/he is "top dog" in this manner.
In a dog pack, other dogs will respond either with submission (allowing the behaviour) or they will fight back and attempt to assert their own dominance. This is how each dog finds his/her place in the pack.
When I relayed this info to Hubby, he stopped Candy immediately. She didn't like that and continued to try to do it for several weeks, but eventually we reasserted ourselves as "top dogs" in the household and the behaviour went away.
We may think it is amusing, but for the dogs, it is dead serious!