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strange habit
Topic Started: 2 Mar 2012, 09:02 PM (296 Views)
bellas mum
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Hi

Didn't think that i should title topic as humping but,

I wonder if anyone on here can give me any idea to why Bella has started to hump my leg when i'm sitting down.

It doesn't happen all the time and seems to be when exited or all her advances for attention are being ignored.

She must be coming up to 16ish months now and was spayed when we picked her up from Lyn Cook in september.

Is it just she is reaching maturity??

wendy
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traceywhite
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oh i would like to know about this too, i have a gsd bitch, who is just 2 now, and she doesnt hump my leg but humps my other dog quite alot :embarassed:
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pangolin
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My previous GSD did this as a pup, which she got overexcited, she grew out of it though. Kiki can do it sometimes - seems to be mostly to other dogs when they're lying on their back, or to people who are playing with her and crouch/lie down. I think it's partly due to being excited (eg. she's just played with the other dog or the person), I definately wouldn't say it's a sexual habit. In Bella's case I would say it's excitability if she wants you to play and you're not paying any attention, and may have just become an attention seeking habit if it's worked in the past (any attention, even negative, is attention - so you pushing her off your leg is transfering your attention from the TV/book/whatever you were engrossed in to her)
I would just get up and walk away when she does it, so she learns that humping removes any attention, rather than gains it.
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