Too funny! You would need to buy a doggie mansion with lots of little doggie rooms, LOL
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Date: 2/8/2012 5:37:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] questionable behavior
Exactly my viewpoint. It is rude and unacceptable to have your pet inflicting his urges on other people or animals. That is poor training. My only quandry would be if I had three or four dogs all like Paco. I would have to give them each a room for their "private time"..I can just see it..ok guys 2:00..good to your separate corners and enjoy lol
Pam, I like the last part where they say:
And if all else fails, let the dog have its favorite pillow or toy once or twice a day, in private, he says. “Some dogs are just more sexually driven,” Spiegel says. “But in our culture it’s not acceptable to let your dog hump other dogs or people. It’s rude.”
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Date: 2/8/2012 5:21:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] questionable behavior
Good article...Paco must be one of those sexually driven canines lol..Thank goodness for his bride
Our altered male humps his beds routinely. He has been neutered for 2 years and still does it. It is not sexual. Our spayed female used to hump her stuffed animals occasionally. It is more of a dominance thing for him I think. He never does it to other dogs or people. Here is an article about it. http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/features/humping-why-do-dogs-do-it. If our boy keeps doing it for more that=n a few minutes I just distract him to do something else.
Sue
FL/MI
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Joan Croft <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, the only time that male ‘dogs’ normally do this to female ‘dogs’ is when the female is in heat and the male has not been neutered. That is why when a dog is neutered that they don’t do it very often; and when they do it is not a sexual thing. You must have unaltered dogs, or else there would not be this activity between your male and his ‘bride’. Dogs are not like humans as far as the male having had a vasectomy and a female that has had a hysterectomy still do the deed…but dogs only do it when the female is in heat and the male has not been altered.
To each his own on this behavior. If mine did it on people or even other of my dogs causing altercations, I would take issue with him for sure. But when he indulges himself with his own "bride" I am not going to get in his face about being a dog. He usually likes to take her to another room for privacy anyway lol.. Sometimes we civilize them to the point where we expect them to be "little people" not dogs.
Desi was neutered before 4 months old. He does it sometimes and I have been told that humping is not always sexual behavior – especially if the dog is neutered. I have probably only seen Desi do this three or four times in over two years. You need to stop them calmly by gently touching them and picking them up, or removing the object while telling him that is not the way to play with that toy.
That won’t always stop it. Heck probably 80% of the time it doesn’t
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] questionable behavior
Gimli, my 3 month old, is always humping his big toys. I am not liking this and wondering what you all do about this behavior?
Shelley
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