My dog is always humping her toy.. how can i let her stop? when i take it from her she gets depressed!?

Answer 1

Your dog is exhibiting a dominance behavior. in the pack hierarchy that is your house, she feels that the toy is below her in the pack, so she is reminding it who's boss. This is a fairly normal behavior, but it might indicate that she feels insecure about her position in your pack. Her "depression" might just be a reaction to her insecurity about her position. A quick way to solve the problem is to give her toys that are much smaller than she is.

Answer 2

Humping in female dogs (and male dogs in most situations) has nothing to do with sex. Your dog is expressing frustrated dominance. She feels the need to be in control and it taking it out on her toy. The best solution for this is to get her lots of exercise and exposure to new places, mimicking dogs roaming. Long walks are best for this. Obedience training will also help. If you provide her with exercise as an energy outlet and behave in ways that show her you are the leader, this will get better. Check out The Dog Whisperer (show on HBO), and the book Ceasar's Way by Ceasar Millan. Some other excellent resources on dog behavior are: The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell, The Culture Clash by Sue Donaldson, How to be your Dog's Best Friend by the Monks of New Skete (although a number of their techniques on being "alpha" have been highly criticized lately).

Answer 3

Dogs sometimes hump toys or even other dogs as a sign of dominance and nothing more. She's not hurting anything by doing it. If she's not spayed you should get her spayed though.
I have a male chi and he's neutered. He likes to hump his toys.

Answer 4

my dog does this too.. you have to constantly stand over them when she is in contact with that certain toy while telling her 'no' as she humps the toy.
a lot of dogs will hump toys cause they haven't been fixed but it's still possible to train them to not hump their toys.

Answer 5

Your dog may be 'in heat' and the 'humping' action is merely a reflex and feels good. Why take it away from her? Let her have the toy and if it bothers you, put her in another room while she 'plays'.

Answer 6

Don't take the toy away, she's not hurting anyone. Would you rather she humped your leg? Why do people get pets if they're not prepared to accept natural behaviour? Get a goldfish!

Answer 7

Let her do it! This is normal behavior for male and female dogs - especially if she is female and has been through her first heat cycle. She really isn't hurting anything. Every dog that I have ever seen has done this. Females will do it after their first heat cycle and males will do it around the time that their testicles decend. If it's keeping her occupied and she isn't causing herself any harm then let her continue. However, you may want to put the toy up when you have visitors..haha.

Answer 8

There is really nothing you can do to get her to stop. My dog is the same way. She likes to hump the teddy bear all the time. Like the other person said its nature. Just let her do it. I can understand someone trying to get a dog to stop though when small kids are around.

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Answer 9

Let her have her fun....my cat does the same thing and we have just learned to accept it. I'd rather have a dog doing that to a toy, than have it doing it to people's legs. Besides, you don't want a depressed dog. It's just sad.

Answer 10

2 options:

Let her continue to hump her toy, it's not doing anyone any damage...

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place a tiny bit of urine from another animal or yourself on it, and it will unattract your dog to the toy all together.