Dog Nuetering...?

Question

Hi y'all. I recently got a 5 month old in-tact chihuahua. He weighs 4.5 pounds, but he thinks my 150+ pound male dog (also intact) is his "girlfriend"....well atleast the dogs leg anyways. We made the appt to get him nuetered within a couple days, as he literally did ti almost constantly.

He was nuetered 2 days ago, as I'm not cool with my dog humping my other dog every thirty seconds. Yesterday I noticed he still did it. Is there a 'delayed' reaction to nuetering or do nuetered dogs still hump other dogs? Is it becuse he still has a little testosterone in him or what?

My other dog, btw, is 3 years and he's never shown that kind of interest. For a 5 month old this guy is sure...er...aware. ha.

I dont think it is a dominant thing, actually. (That did occur to me).

He gets REALLY into it..and if the other dog moves, the Chi still does the 'motion' to the air...its SOO gross.

I JUST got the Chi, but i cannot have a dog that i literally cant even set down on the ground or he's going to do that.... i dont want to see it every single friggin day.

Thanks everyone! I'll give him atleast a month to "chill" and continue to 'yell' at him when/if he does it. He stops when you scold him but as soon as you turn around...there he goes again!

I wish my big mastiff wasn't such a gentle giant and would just make him knock it off!

Answer 1

Yep, dominance. The behavior can be stopped though. EVERY TIME you see him doing it, poke him in the neck HARD, you can tell him NO if you want...I used "unacceptable". Poking him is like biting him (you can bite, but will end up spitting out a mouth full of hair LOL). Don't let him near your other dog unless you are there because this has to be done EVERY TIME he does it. If he gets away with it even once, you may have to start all over again with creating you as the alpha member of your pack...if you don't become alpha, it will never stop. It may take a little while for him to quit (also watch out for humping is toys...do the same thing to him).
Also take him for long walks (a tired dog can't hump)!
I did this with my 11 yr old Rottweiler and Great Dane puppy (Rotti wanted to be dominate...I am the ALPHA in my pack!)

Good Luck!

Answer 2

It takes a few days for the hormones to go away, but humping is 99% dominance and 1% sexual. Doesn't matter if you have a tiny dog and a huge dog, it's their personality, and small dogs tend to think they own the world, so it's not surprising he is still humping your big dog. Nuetering will not get rid of that. It's really a training issue. Keep saying NO, and remove him from the situation will do more for solving the problem than anything else.

Answer 3

The leg humping is a dominance act and has nothing to do with testosterone or sex. Two females will hump each other and a female will hump a male. The one doing the humping is trying to prove that it is the more dominant of the two. If the humpee doesn't stand up to the humper it will keep happening.

It is not unusual fo small dogs to try to act dominant and be aggressive with larger dogs.

Answer 4

"Humping" is a sign of dominance so it may be a problem that you may always have. You do have hope though if it is a hormone thing. It takes 30 days for the male dog to be unable to breed after it has been neutered. So there is still a chance that it is a hormonal problem. If the dog is still "humping" after 30 days I would say that it is a dominance problem.

Answer 5

Many times mounting is a social thing for dogs. Its a way to assert their dominace over somebody.

Now he no longer has his hormones telling him to do it, its become more of a behavior. You'll have to correct him of this, with a sharp no, or by changing the subject with a game of fecth or something he likes to do (other then mounting things).

Many times people continue to let their dogs do this thinking its funny and harmless, and the situation turns to aggression later on (in regards to him progressing to mount people and when they try to shooo him away, he gets aggressive with them).

Its best to try to stop this before it gets to that point, esp. with little dogs who tend to have the short dog syndrome (thinking they are 150lbs).

It will take a while for him to realize this is an unwanted behaivor, but ultimately you retain the status of "pack leader", so it should be known to him that you get the last word........ always.

Good luck I know this can be a frustrating habbit to break, but don't worry its not his hormones instigating this any more.

Answer 6

Most likely the little horn dog will continue to hump.
Neutering does remove the hormones but in this case this is dominance behavior not really sexual.
They Chi is trying to show the larger dog he is the dominant one in the house.
Chi's are really bad about humping and peeing. They are hard to break. Most will hump almost anything given the opportunity.

Answer 7

Even in fixed dogs this can just be a dominance thing....my female spayed Britanny did that to my male GSD for the first couple weeks we had him....I would think that your little chihuahua is just trying to be the top dog....which I hear this breed is pretty stubborn and think they are much bigger than they really are....I have never owned one but that is what I hear....

Answer 8

Our dog has been neutered for almost a year, and he still humps people's legs... He doesn't do it as often, so perhaps your baby will grow out of it a little too.

The best I know to say is learn to laugh about it. That's what we had to do. haha

Answer 9

its commen little dogs do that and their is know way to stop it, you can try giving him a stuffed animal a little bit bigger than him, the "humping" is just a sign of dominance!