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My Yorkie now 5 years was neutered when he was just 3 mos old and he use to occasionally hump the cat, not just any cat just the male himalayan. He now tries to hump the spayed female weimaraner when she is laying on the floor of course.
I always heard it was a dominance issue, but I don't think that is true.
I don't think it matters if he's neutered or not. My dog is neutered (he is a shelter dog) and he still likes to do it when he's at the dog park or for that matter when he just meets other dogs, also doesn't matter if their male or female
The behavior will subside when the dog is neutered simply because he'll have less testosterone in his system and thus, less sexual frustration.
But with an older dog who has been intact longer, he learns that this behavior is pleasurable. So he might continue to some extent afterwards because he still thinks, "Oh, yeah, I remember how could all that rubbing used to feel!"
I have a ten year old neutered male Yorkie, and just adopted a 4 year old male Yorkie who was just recently neutered. The old dog began humping the new dog as soon as I brought him into the house. I have tried the “time out” method, but the old guy begins again as soon as he is allowed back into the room. The new dog does not seem to mind....does not snap or growl. How can I stop this. The old dog never has humped other dogs that we have had before.
They list reasons and one of them is the dog being stressed in a situation and then it may become a habitual response every time the dog is stressed out if it isn’t addressed. They give advice on retraining the dog’s behavior.
Like you, my previous dog, neutered as a pup, was a serial bumper at the dog park. I quit taking him after a while for fear he was going to get hurt by the larger dogs he was doing it to. I didn’t think about trying to retrain him and I doubt the people at the dog park would have had much patience with that. No one likes their dog being humped.
At the time I thought it was dominance related to his dog aggression. I later realized it those behaviors were fear based. I learn with each dog.
The funniest thing I ever saw was when I was standing in a lineup to get on a ski tow a long time ago. Three male dogs were lined up in a row humping. They were moving along, so it looked like the two at the back were pushing the one in front. The whole lineup roared.
OP, can't suggest anything but hope it subsides after your dog gets neutered.
My dog, who is 11 and not neutered, humps some other dogs occasionally (usually younger males); most often in the autumn. I don't mind at all, if (A) the owner of the dog being humped does not mind (I ask) and (B) the dog being humped does not appear stressed or physically likely to be hurt by my dog's actions, i.e. more physically fragile than my 26-lb. dog). Most of the dogs my dog goes far are larger and quite capable of throwing him off and then outrunning him.
If the owners object, or the other dog appears to be tiring or stressed in some way; I will leash my dog; it is the only way to stop him when he is in full, obsessive, humping mode.
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