This is very interesting as i hadnt seen it before. Good clear explanation. Lexi is humping her sister Cassie at the moment, It always happens between 4 and 6 weeks before Cassies season and goes on for about 10days to 2 weeks, but very rarely when she is actually in season which i find strange. Cassie just flops onto the floor looking confused, never gets peed off with her, its just an inconvenience to her.
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Poppy is a serial humper but only with her mattress. She has now started positioning her mattress onto the pouffe in the living room so she has a bit more leverage...
We take her mattress off her and put it back in her bed in the dining room and she goes and gets it and drags it back in the living room. we think she needs an audience to perform. Last couple of weeks she has been at it a lot more and I am wondering (after prompting from another post I have posted this evening about her vomitting) if she is about to go into season. She is 6 1/2 months old ish....
She would be within normal bounds to come in at 6/7 months but the vast majority come in rather later than that for the first time, more the 8 - 12 month sort of catagory.... but certainly she has many hormones charging about within her as she ages and probably isn't quite sure whether she is coming or going at the moment
Most dogs just plain old ENJOY humping 'things' if they start the habit, and so it may increase purely because they are older and are really getting into a habit.
To be honest I would not be cutting her a lot of slack with this, its not harmful as a habit but its probably better to discourage it more firmly by when she drags her mattress to you, take it and put it somewhere she can't get it till she goes to bed. And if she gathers something else do the same. Try and stop her from doing it for a while by removing anything humpable, including cushions from sofas etc if she starts on those instead, and the habit will tend to break fairly quickly.
Di
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Ooops other then occasionally taking her mattress off her I have just been ignoring it thinking she would grow out of it!
Will sort that out from now though, she has just given her mattress what for and is having a lie down so am removing it from the living room back to her bed!
Sorry Poppy your in-house public humping days are over
As I say i would probably remove it completely to somewhere she can't get it until bedtime or she will just see it as a wierd type of retrieve game - you put it somewhere, she gets it and humps he will live without a comfy mattress till this is broken, promise So everything gets put up on a work surface or upstairs or behind a closed door that she remotely wants to hump and only fished back when absolutely essential
Good luck!
Di
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject: Humping
Hiya all,
Buddy is 14 months now, and started humping about 6 months old, it started with a neutred 5 year old male, he seems to fit Mr Underdog. I have repeatidly pulled buddy off him, this really seems to have worked , although occasionally hill will still try to hump 5yr old . He will run a mile to get to a bitch (this appears fairly normal, if some what anti social) What is really annoying is , the other day he ran away, after me putting him on the lead, the other neuterd male had been taken away and out of sight, I let Buddy off his lead to play and he darted off back to the dog to lick his genitals, I asked the woman if males usually went for her dog , she said no? His humping does seem to be a bit random, but its the lack of control I have of my dog, that i dont like, I feel that it could be dangerous, especially if there were a road between him and his intended, Iv decided to do more on lead walking with him, the problem with this , is , will he get enough exercise. Please help
Hi, I do completely understand both your position and fustration. I think the way to think about it is almost to stand back from the end result of him charging off and blanking you, IE - the humping - and think more about the 'control' side of things. The recall side of things.
Thats not because the humping part isn't important, its his 'draw', its his 'fun', which always gives him a result be that just attention from the other dog, negative OR positive, OR a genuine sexual or authoritarian kick.... but the real issue behind him scarpering up to dogs to hump or lick them is based, as you sort of have said, in his total blank on your recall or command to stay with you....
I know you don't need telling that its totally obvious to you, i'm sure... but certain behaviours, rather than trying to fight fire with fire, just need preventing, helping the bad habit pass and break. And certainly humping strangers dogs will often get him a sound kick up the arse - possibly actually, or possibly only metaphorically from other owners.
There will not be a magic answer to his humping, and unfortunately some dogs, as they mature get worse rather than better as they get more and more set in their ways. The problem is, unless you have the sort of realtionship with your dog, where you can give them a snarl and they really BELIEVE you that there will be hell to pay if they continue with whatever they are doing, you are losing the battle of trying to stop him. Just yelling, shaking, saying 'no' etc won't help detract him from doing it, as he usually 'wins' for longer than he 'loses' because he runs to the dog and has a lot of 'fun' before you arrive puffing behind him (as we all would - grin).
So in a way this is a control and recall issue. I don't know whether you go to classes, a trainer at all? This needs some real work and won't be easy as you are reschooling a dog that has an ingrained default to blank you when he fancies which is a lot harder than teaching a blank canvas puppy something from scratch.
For a time I would take him out on a longline. LET him fall into the trap of heading towards some dog he sees as a target, and if you can set this up with your friends dog.... but you have ultimate control for once. Stop him in his tracks, and get him in for a serious serious treat, be that a big bit of really good 'food' (not a dry old biscuit or something) or with a squeaky ball etc etc. Continue this day in day out whenever you can. If you walk a more relaxed walk walk somewhere secluded whilst you reschool his recall. Practice between meeting dogs here and there, stopping him in his tracks, recalling him and making him feel the most fantastic dog in the world.... by way of praise, play fighting, treats etc....
It depends how much you want to put in. You can reschool this but its going to not take days but weeks of being persistant and vigilent. Sometimes call him up BEFORE he sees the other dog, sometimes practice stopping him after he has started GOING, but because you are in ultimate control, he can NEVER fail, which is the first way to breaking a habit and teaching him whats right and wrong. Dogs are very black and white.
Welcome to ask more.
Di
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Many thanks Di
I think your opinion is fantastic and thank you for helping, just a progress report on Buddy.
At 14months old, he certainly is a very well behaved dog, we,v got him getting his towel when he gets home wet, he gets "mums shoes" " Dads shoes" when we get ready for his walk. He never barges out before us, he always walks to heal on his lead, he never begs for food or treats, he sits and waits patiently for his dinner, he never gets on the furniture, he goes to his bed when told to, I could go on. He is such a wonder to us all and he loves cuddles.
I have been keeping him on his lead a lot more at the dog park and this is proving to be successful, when he approaches a dog , "I" allow him to say hello ( quick sniff) then I move him on, I am trying to break the bad habits, it makes more sense that way, his humping really has calmed down, although his new habit is (was) licking, again as treating this like a bad habit , I see it before it happens and pull him away or distract him with his ball, or treat( although he has never been a "food" dog, unusual I know) all this seems to be paying off, to be honest the hardest thing is not knowing why, when you find out that its things they "like" or bad habits, it makes it easier to change it, i was worried that his diet lacked or alike. I do feed him on Skinners dry food so it is fully nutritional, and he is not allowed treats off passers by or other dog walkers, we never give him tit bits either, as I believe this makes them beg.
Thank you for all your help and encouragement
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