before one of them gets told off for being gay!
Surely being gay isn't a reason to tell a dog off?
Maybe just get him a
'Celebrate Dog-versity' t-shirt at Helping Udders? :lol:
And this work swimmingly until they're out of your sight... then they're still going to hump.
That can certainly be true! -- but which doesn't matter, I think, as the point would be for most people that you don't want them doing this in public, as 'twere. :lol: And Lily certainly goes for the pillows if I am not looking as I catch her mid-act all the time, or the pillows thrown to the floor after she has had her nasty way with them.
But if the humping is something that can instigate a fight -- eg it is one dog doing it as a more aggressive behaviour or to prove it is more important than others as can definitely be the case -- then I would never leave those dogs out of sight and together anyway. They'd be separated.
Personally, I think a lot of humping that gets taken as dogs trying to show rank (eg dominance) is really just dogs getting overexcited or playing around. I had my two neutered boys around the intact dogs and a few tried to mount and got an earful and a hard stare, especially from Leo. They all stopped the second either dog reacted. Now, if this was truly an attempt to show 'dominance' then none of these dogs, including some intact males nearly twice Leo's size, succeeded.
Yet Leo and Jaspar are not dominant types, nor are they challenging types, indeed Jaspar is often quite submissive. They have never fought with any dog except each other (rarely). To me this suggests yet again that dominance is extremely poorly understood, easy to misinterpret as is 'pack behaviour', and that sometimes rude behaviour is just rude behaviour and a dog will tell another off for being a pest. Indeed a couple of us had a bit of a laugh at the way in which the bigger intact stud dogs all cowered a bit and backed off from Leo (who weighs all of 15 lbs, or about 6.5 kg) immediately.
I don't know who was the alpha dog(s) in that group of six stud boys, but none tried to 'punish' Leo for inappropriate behaviour, none did an 'alpha roll', none barked or snapped or otherwise attempted to show 'firm leadership'. Whoever was the top dog in that group was a typical benign dg leader who did the dog equivalent of saying 'yep -- sorry about that pal -- we were a bit rude! We'll leave you alone now' :lol
. Lots of indications there about how wrong it is to base training on corrections, assumptions about needing to be pack leaders, and needing to show dogs they shouldn't be 'dominant'.