Humpty Dance
His best friend, Roxy, a spayed female boxer lives next door who he was just happy with running around with until now. It seems like every moment they stop playing, he's trying to get on top of her. I feel bad for Frank because I immediately put him inside the house once this starts happening. He is not humping anything or anyone else except for her. I am also very surprised that he is so determined since she is spayed too. Can anyone please suggest any solutions? Is there some kind of spray I can maybe spray on her backside that would be a deterrent? Poor Frank, he really loves Roxy. |
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| your not alone!!! my daughters 7yr old maltese/yorkie has been fixed since he was 6months old.well my best friend has a chinese cresent who is also fixed will when they get together these two go at it  it is so shameful  nothing is being actually done but they both are humping.in fact eddie was on his back and buttercup was on top of him humping him!!! so im not sure this is normal,but i also share this embarassing issue w/ you!!LOL!! now mickey he gets excited and he humps the air its funny as it gets but hopeing this comedy act will end when he gets fixed |
| Actually my two GIRLS hump each other sometimes too! LOL |
| I have always heard that this is there way of determining/showing dominance. Don't know if it is true or not. The only thing I know for sure is that it will make you . |
| LOL... it's funny because it embarrasses my kids! I know the dogs are doing it when I hear the kids say "Eeeewww gross! Stop doing THAT!" |
| Could be a bitch in season somewhere within the county...and your boy has caught the scent on the wind. Since he's not sure where, he's going for anything handy.
He's young and just getting to know his hormones. Or this could be typical dominance play. If the spay bitch next door doesn't care for the game, she'll let him know in no uncertain terms. Since he's a show boy, you don't need bite marks all over him, so bringing him when he's hormonally crazed is a good idea. We've been discussing DAP on another list.....it's a hormone spray that calms some dogs down. Call up some of the dog stuff websites to read about it. Apparently it is available at PetsMart. |
| We haven't had this problem with Jack. Well, if Annie is close to her heat cycle, he will sometimes get a little over zealous and try to "dance". LOL It is only during those times though.
Is Frank lifting his leg yet? Jack still hasn't learned this, but he will smell where Annabelle has gone and mark over her areas around 20 times before he comes inside. We have never had him mark inside the house. I don't know how we have gotten so lucky when it came to intact males. I just hope it doesn't start later on. 
If Frank does well in show, do you plan on breeding? Good luck on his new behavior. Stormi and co. |
Thanks everyone for your humorous and kind thoughts. It seems as though maybe the "go inside" punishment is working  because the last 2 times it was rough-house play as usual with Roxy and he didn't try to hump her at all, or maybe Sheepieboss was right about another female being in season, because my neighbor's indoor cat was in heat. Could that be a factor?? Poor guy with all those hormones flying around. I'll look into the hormone spray if he doesn't knock it off.
Stormi, Frank doesn't lift his leg nor did our deceased male, Newman (but he was neutered). Frank hasn't really tried marking his territory, I hope that is not something I can look forward to. Regarding breeding, I am not interested in it, but my breeder says that if he does really well in show it makes sense to at least try to stud him or freeze some samples, which I would let her handle but I won't be shipping him off anyplace. Are you thinking of breeding Jack & Annabelle? (I don't recall what their relationship is to each other.) The vet says as long as we get him neutered before the age of 6, that he shouldn't have any prostate problems which are common in unneutered males. Then again, we have to get him to the shows first, I had more problems last night in the car on the way to handling class. I'm pretty determined to get him over the car thing, but if it's not meant to be I am going to have a real tough time deciding to try and stick him in the car. Even with just a car ride around the block, it's immediate diarrhea, which is so much fun with all of that hair. I started trying the homeopathic anxiety stuff last night which didn't help at all but I'm going to try administering it to him everyday to see if that helps a little. The sad thing is is that as soon as I walk to the car, he runs over and wants to get in, I guess once it starts moving is when it becomes a problem. Other than those couple of things, his behavior is wonderful. Sweet, overly-friendly boy. |
| I'll agree that it's very embarrasing. They seem to know the perfect time to start doing their thing when the embarrasement factor is at it's highest. Lennon is neutered and he keeps on humping Sofa, and sometimes it's the other way around, we tell them to stop and they do, but it's still embarrasing.
Before neutering, Lennon humped everything in sight, he would not leave alone our neighbor dogs but that ended when he was neutered and now plays nice with them. |
| Hi Verve,
Yes, we are planning on breeding Jack and Annabelle, they are from different breeders, not related. This is just the plan though, we have lots of tests to have ran, once they get of age. We are still trying to decide Pennhip or OFA. Then we will also get eyes, heart, and thyroid tests ran. If all the results are good, then we will breed. If the results are not as great as we had hoped, we will get both fixed and they will still be our big wonderful babies. Annabelle's coat is looking really nice, so I really am anxious to get her into show, and find out how she stands out against other OES's. I don't know how long until Jack's coat comes back in. He is rather shabby after going through another coat change. His white looks good, but the dark is shorter and shabby. Stormi and co. |
| Humping is a sign of dominance. Oreo tried that with me and he was born without testicles. When your dog tries to hump walk away from do not touch the dog and we used the off phrase he only did this a few times and never again. |
| Dudley is a humper, too - mostly at the dog park, though. I pull him off and he gets a time out for 5 minutes when he is humpy. He does not do this any other time... Silly puppy! ~Katie. |
| LMAO@humpy |
| Hey Shaggydog.....Oreo still has testicles ( unless you got him fixed ).
They are just inside, it's called cryptorchid. Because they are in the abdomen they will be sterile but oreo can still produce testosterone and show masculine behavior......or the humpty dance. BYE |
Hi Hannah, just wanted to say welcome to the forum!  |
| Thanks Willowsprite, Nice to meet you. I love reading everyone stories and advice. Ya'll have given me great sheepie advice and ideas. Talk to you soon BYE |
| Hi Hannah, Oreo had no testicles he had an exploratory lap to remove any and none were found. Our vet had a specialist helping. The surgery was done to prevent health problems. He is one of two that specialist has seen. |
| The stories about dogs humping may be amusing but it is an act of dominance. I would stop my dog from humping strange dogs, you just don't know how a strange dog will respond to this type of behavior. |
| I stop my two girls from doing that, however, I also believe they need to work out who is alpha between the two of them. I know it is dominance, but they don't try to do that to people or anything else. It's natural for two dogs who live together to try to figure out who is the boss between them.
It is important to stop behavior like that though, like shaggydog said you don't know how a strange dog will react, and you don't want them trying to do that to people. It can lead to further aggression if they get away with it. |
| Hey Shaggydog, I've never heard of that in a dog before, but it's neat to always learn something new. As far as dogs humping, I don't find it amusing at all. If anything it's a big annoyance. I have two male dogs that were neutered at 3 mths old and have never had the problem. They get along great and never went thru dominance issues with each other. When one of them was younger he tried to show aggression to me but I put a stop to that quick. Nine years later everything is fine. I've just added a female that is now 4 mths old, and who knows the problem may start now because I'm not having her fixed yet. I've never had to deal with a female in heat. How bad is it everybody???? Oh well nice talking to you Bye |
| Hi Hannah, The specialist said that Oreo was the second dog he had ever seen with no "nads". He is clean inside and outside as everything was checked when he was in the OR. He did have an extra tooth appear near an adult tooth it just showed up it was not a baby tooth and it was near an adult tooth we waited and watched it and one day it was gone. I don't know if any other dogs have had that tooth situation. He is one happy healthy dog, looking at the new Christmas we got today. I wonder what our dogs think when we have trees in the house! He is sniffing it and walking around it. Our sheepies are never dull and quite special |
| Just wanted to update that there have been no new humping incidents since those couple of days mentioned. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it was just a phase! |
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