Local in season bitches

[Jenko109]

I have never kept an entire Male before. My whippet is my first and he is about 19 months old now.

You hear all the usual. He will try and stray and look for bitches, he will be obsessive and hard to manage blah blah blah.

But what is the reality? If they can smell bitches up to a few miles away, then they can surely smell any local bitches from their home?

I ask because yesterday evening, my whippet seemed a bit off. He was sniffing the air in the garden quite a bit and was less interested in food than usual. I didnt think much of it, thought perhaps he had got stung by a bug or something and was just being a bit sheepish about it.

However just now we were having a play in the garden and he stopped mid play and again spent some time sniffing the air.

Are these subtle signs that there may be an in season bitch in the area?

 

[irishdraft]

I have an entire terrier and the only time he runs off is when local people walk their in season bitches around our local footpaths and fields. He doesn't generally pick it up at home but if we're out walking that's when he will start noticing it. He will then take off either on the walk if we haven't spotted the signs or if he gets a chance if out at home the other thing he does is start humping our male neutered collie . So it's a pita. Other than that you wouldn't know he was entire

 

[Tiddlypom]

The late JRT didn't get too bothered until some entire bitches moved in opposite, about 100 yards away. They were kennelled so the aroma wafted across and sent him completely loopy. He kept trying to climb out of our garden, in the end we had to put electrified poultry netting up.

He then had the contraceptive implant which made for a much easier time for all of us, it lasted well over 2 years.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

My garden is Fort Knox. Don’t know if next door’s bitch is entire, but they’ve never been interested in her.

 

[gunnergundog]

Every dog is different. However, the more mature and experienced a dog is, the less, in my experience, that he bothers.....unless the bitch is 'ripe'.

I usually exercise the legs off any entire males I have when my bitch (local bitches) are in season. They are so knackered, they can not be arsed!

 

[CorvusCorax]

When my female is in season there is a bit of howling from my two and they do a lot of 'bitching' where she has scent-marked.

But that's it, no breakouts or moping or humping and they've both been used at stud. She and her father rotate a kennel and he doesn't have a nervous breakdown when he goes in there after she leaves, just a bit of sniffing and that's that. Appreciate that might be abnormal.

Same with the car boxes if she's been in there.

 

[Chucho]

Our boy was intact and you would not have known he wasn't neutered. We didn't get him done because we never felt we needed to. Which was quite a departure to what I had always felt was the right thing to do before. We could walk him past in season bitches with no discernible reaction from him (they live around the corner). Sometimes he would get a bit dribbly when reading the pee-mail and I always assumed that this was a reaction to an interesting female scent! He would also be sensitive to our girls having yeasty ears or a UTI and dribble a bit. He never attempted to wander off and was a complete gent. We're about to get another boy from the same breeder and I'm intrigued to see whether he is the same.

Our gardens have always been secure though. We stayed on a homestead (unfenced, hundreds of acres) for a while and the intact male dogs there would disappear for days when local bitches (several miles away) came into season. But it was literally like the wild west and the dogs were basically unsupervised, unsocialized, and untrained.

 

[twiggy2]

It depends from dog to dog, ours have been working all day on the hill gathering, 4 entire dogs, 3 of which have been used, and 4 bitches, one is in season and one is coming into season.
Everyone got on with their work as normal and at the end they all got in their vehicles home, a bit of pee licking and leg cooking but nothing untoward.

 

[Goldenstar]

It’s does depend we had one who we got as a young adult he straying was epic how he survived I have idea he was once picked twenty miles from home at farm with a hot bitch.
He only got way here twice both early on .He was a very handsome well bred dog and had several litters it seems to put him off straying he lived to a great age .
Since him I have had three dogs non of them has ever strayed .

 

[Clodagh]

Next doors collie is in season (again!). Didn’t realise until we were coming back from our walk and she bolted up to Scout and did the tail thing. He still walked home at heel ( I didn’t even put him in a lead). He did then try to scoot back up there when we got back so is now locked down in his kennel. He can jump like a kangaroo and she’s smiling at him from the road.

 

[malwhit]

I had a male Mini Schnauzer who was entire and he never bothered about bitches in season. Probably because when he arrived, my female dog told him off for trying to sniff her rear. She scared him off for life

Even when I got another female who came into season soon after I got her, he was not interested. I separated them with a baby gate, and it was the bitch that jumped over it to get to him. Luckily nothing happened between them, or if it did she didnt get pregnant.

 

[HappyHollyDays]

We don’t have any entire male dogs close to us and Bentley is done but when Betty first came into season a few years ago we had a love sick male fox camp out on the patio for days As soon as her season passed we never saw him again.

 

[blackcob]

Even when I got another female who came into season soon after I got her, he was not interested. I separated them with a baby gate, and it was the bitch that jumped over it to get to him. Luckily nothing happened between them, or if it did she didnt get pregnant.

There is a very nice puppy currently on the show circuit in one of my breeds that was the product of a stair gate mating.

My dog will ‘bitch’ over scent on the ground and once last year in a show campsite got all squeaky and strutty briefly, presumably over a nearby bitch. He was fine in a mixed ring the following day and agility queues the rest of the weekend, having been told to knock it off.

 

[ownedbyaconnie]

There are two entire dogs at the stables I keep my horse. I can always tell when my bitch is about to enter season because they become more interested in her back end/licking her wee (ew). She's never been around them in full season for obvious reasons so not sure how they'd react.

There's one dog down our road (which I recently did a thread about) who is absolutely obsessed with her. He lives maybe 100-200m away and he will run to our door. His owners say he goes off his food for a few days, sits and pines etc.

 

[Moobli]

Definitely depends on the dog. We have had a gamekeeper’s dog coming to our kennels from a mile away when we had a bitch in season. My old male GSD used to jump our six foot garden fence to go and serenade a particular bitch in the kennel and once took off after the scent of her on the quad bike and tracked her all round the hill before arriving back home. Thankfully he was only interested when she was standing for a dog and a few days afterwards (despite her then trying to take his face off ).
The dogs we have now will let us know when one of the girls is coming into season but aren’t put off their work. There is more chance of a scuffle between the boys though so it’s something we watch out for.