Beaulah Mae is getting neutred

[Texasgal]

on tuesday, she is seven months old.

Can I expect that she will stop trying to hump my arms? She is very aggresive when doing this. Should it wane with neutering?

It's driving me NUTS!

[TorchTheWitch]

2. sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't

Is Beaulah Mae a doggie or a kitty? I know with doggies that once they go into heat once they may be prone to still do their little humpty dance from time to time. Doggies are also known to do it as sign of dominance, so it wouldn't matter really if they get fixed or not. I don't know if this holds true for kitties or not. Female doggies may try to do the mounting thing whether fixed or not and even though they're female as a symbol of dominance. I used to live near a family with two Malamutes - a male and female - both were fixed but the female was always trying to mount up on the male when they were in their yards. She was definitely the dominant one of the two, but she only ever did that in the yard and only when a person or other doggie was around. She was very... um... exuberant... about it, while the male just stood their like a doofus and let her go nuts.

This is probably only because she's not fixed yet, but don't be surprised if she occasionally still does the humpty dance on you or certain objects. Doing it all the time like she is now though is probably because she's not yet fixed and is going through heat as long as this is something recent that she's been doing.

[Texasgal]

6. Doggie.

I am going NUTS!

She seems very aggressive with her "humps"... she bites my arms and scratches them to get a hold of them! GAHHHH!

I am hoping... crossing fingers, burning sage, singing to the gods that she does not go into heat before tuesday!

[TorchTheWitch]

7. Is this very recent activity, and are there other signs of heat?

I'm not sure this is her being in heat or not. This may be a dominance thing, or maybe just a puppy thing. At around that age they want to chew, chew, chew, bite, bite, bite, and knaw, knaw, knaw on everything - particularly our various body parts.

Have you talked to your vet about this behavior, and is it recent? I'm thinking this may be a dominance thing or just a puppy thing.

What do you do when she does this to your arms or whatever other body part? Some old fashioned discipline is in order here even if it is a hormone thing... at least that way it would teach her she has to do her humpty dance on something other than you.

This is a difficult age with puppies when they're like crazy monster tornados where they seem on warp speed 24/7. Mine is a little over eight months now, and for weeks he's been a nutcase... perpetually trying to get into mischief, wanting to chew up all my body parts, my shoes, my pillows (damn near everything!), and is generally just like a flying monkey. Just trying to get dressed is an excercise in puppy madness... he tries to attack my clothes whether partway on or partway off, and even when i'm at the point where the clothes are all off he tries to eat my feet, poke his nose in embarrassing places, and just generally acts like my getting dressed or undressed in the most exciting thing EVER. Tonight I tried taking a nice relaxing bubbly bath... pfffffftttttttt... The Great Hairy One was so enthralled with the bubbles he took a flying leap into the tubby with me (and there's barely enough room in there for just ME!). We had great fun making a mess with the bubbles, and I doubt the bathroom will ever dry out, but it sure as hell wasn't my idea of a relaxing bath soak.

This is also about the age where they decide if you're satisfactory as a leader, and if they don't think so, they'll start taking over the master role - dominance humping is part of that. There's other signs like passing you to go first up or down the stairs or in and out of doorways, suddenly not allowing you to take something out of their mouth... stuff like that.

Maybe this is hyper-spaz mode, because she is at that age. Or maybe she's deciding she wants to be the master now. Or maybe it's freakish hormones.

I'm a bit stumped, but mostly because the dog is female, and though I'm well versed in the hormonal madness of males, the humpty dance thing with a female is weird to me though I definitely know that they do it as a dominance thing just as males do. I've never had a female dog of my own, so I'm not all that sure what's going on here or why.

I dunno... I bet you're wanting some doggie valium and a doggie straight jacket at this point! LOL! I think your best bet is to discuss this behavior with your vet and see if this is a common thing for a certain reason or what it is and ideas on how to deal with it. I'm more inclined to think the humpty dancing is either a dominance thing or a puppy thing. Does she seem playful or diligent when she does it? If it's more playful (like aggressive play) I'd tend to think it was a puppy thing, but if it's determined and focused I'm thinking it's a dominance thing. Could be a hormone thing though... I'm just not all that well versed on the hormonal crazies of female doggies.

[Texasgal]

8. I'm aware of the dominance issue

we had a 15 year old female boston that passed away last year.

She humped other dogs and her brother for years. I miss her!

This current issue just seems different, It's aggressive and almost scary! I mean she will literally get behind you and start scratching hard to get to your arm! Here's what's weird.. she won't do it to he other dog or the cat. She also will not hump my husband! <----- LOL! That you sounds all kinda funny!

Anyway, yeah... I plan on talking to the vet. I have told her no, I have removed her from my arm, I have taken a small swipe at her... UGGGG. It's just annoying.

I hope that with the nueter she may calm down a bit.

[roody]

3. Thank you for sterilizing her!!!

[99Forever]

4. Just went thru..

... spaying Sadie Mae a week ago Thurs, her behavior didn't include humping fortunately. At 7 months, she's already 62lbs and quite tall, so it wouldn't be fun at all! That said, humping in females is almost always a display of attempted dominance, and rarely an act of sexuality. Best suggestion I can make is find a local dog club or pet lodging/training facility and take some obedience classes. Well worth the time and usually moderate expense.

So you are aware, spaying is a surgical procedure that requires anesthesia and dogs just like people react differently to it. Sadie Mae had a very scary 24 hrs after hers, vomiting, absolutely no appetite, very lethargic. Worried me so much I called the vet hospital and they recommended I try some canned dog food to get her system started again. Worked like a charm. With in the next day, the challenge was to keep her calm so she didn't damage herself from over exertion for the next 10 days.

Here's hoping everything goes easily for Beaulah Mae and she has a quick recovery.

[avebury]

5. Humping your arm could actually be more a sign

of a dominence issue then a mating thing. I have a little 10 lb terrier mix that was spayed when she was 6 months old. She is now 8 years old and she likes to do what I call the dominence dance on her 50+ lb older sister. It is actually quite funny to watch but I get on her about it. Luckily for her, her big older sister is a really laid back dog. My 15 lb 10 yearonth old chihuahua/jack russell was neutered at the age of 7 months and he still does it to his big sister as well.

Neither of the two little dogs mess with each other.

I will say that the smallest dog can be rather bratty to her siblings at time and once in a while they will both gang up on her outside to put her in her place. As long as they don't get too rough with her I just let them work things out amongst themselves.