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Lintel

Lintel

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Our sweet darling angel faced baby has...


20190115_210254.jpg turned into this.... a 16 month old bed jumping monster!!20190115_210144.jpg

He has never been this way inclined and is just back from a 1 week stay at kennels who also happen to breed....
Is it just coincidence that this is happening after the kennels stay- or could it be due to being in the kennels?
 
Hard to know, there may have been pheromones floating around ;)
As long as he didn't get to practice lol!

Not advice, just a short story...
My older dog humped a cushion once, maybe five or six months old, young anyway. I instinctively roared at him and chased him out of the room. Last time he humped anything (he's eight and still entire) his head didn't fall off, and he still loves his mummy ;)
 
What Twiggy said, hopefully nothing more.

CC did what I did when Brig reacted to fireworks, I was so fed up one night that I roared (yes, I feel bad, no, I don't think I scarred him for life) He stopped reacting after that, no shakes, no nervous behaviour. Not ideal owner behaviour and I was pretty horrified at myself, but he was fine forever after, lost his hearing a couple of years ago.

I'm not suggesting it's the way forward and once Bear started humping at the age of 18 months, he was a sod, so I had him neutered.

Can you leave a light line on him in the house, give it a tug, tell him no? Humping is a major PITA.
 
I was not horrified and did not feel bad, for clarity. I personally don't think it's the worst thing in the world to tell a big, well-adjusted lump of a dog to cut something out.
Dog in question is still, er, 'spirited' ('full of temperament' as he has been described by every judge ever....) going into his later years and I wish I'd reacted like that the first time he exhibited some other annoying behaviours :p
 
I felt bad-for a little while! The relief for him, knowing he didn't have to react and for me, knowing I didn't have to 'protect' him, was immense!
 
Thanks all- I'm rather hoping it's just the stress and over stimulation potentially been around some lovely retreiver girls.
If he goes at it again tomorrow I'll give him into trouble- I could barely move for laughing tonight. He was slipping all over the laminate trying to hump the damn bed!!
 
Lintel said:
Thanks all- I'm rather hoping it's just the stress and over stimulation potentially been around some lovely retreiver girls.
If he goes at it again tomorrow I'll give him into trouble- I could barely move for laughing tonight. He was slipping all over the laminate trying to hump the damn bed!!
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Oh you laughed....I laughed at my (late) old boy's extravagant scent marking. After several years of that, going for a pee resembled a three act play.....
 
Our entire lab is 3. He scent marks for England! But only ever seen him hump (our neutered girl) when he has been a bit stressed, like when we have lots of people around and they’ve been shut out in the garden or if we go to one of my parents for the day he sometimes does 😫!
 
If it's any consolation my lot come out of kennels bouncing around like Tigger on speed!! Takes them a couple of days to calm down and settle back to a routine. I think it's the noise that winds them up.

Long time since I've lived with a male dog with his knicky nacky noos intact so I can't offer any other practical advice. Rufus' manly bits are long gone but he does sometimes get a bit giddy (wink wink) with Willow :oops:
 
We appear to be almost back to normal- still a bit whizzy and non-compliant at times but hopefully that will settle. Back to training a week today... hopefully the snow stays away!20190116_231819.jpg
 
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