What Are Your Thoughts?

[CeeCee]

As you might know I volunteer at our local shelter and today I observed a meet and greet between a 10 year old male, boxer mix and 10 week old female pit mix.

The 10 year old really wasn't interested in the puppy, but the puppy just LOVED him! Lit up and followed him everywhere. She tried her best to get him to acknowledge her, but he really wasn't interested in her. (That didn't concern me; my Lila isn't into puppies either.)

When the 10 year old did "acknowledge" the puppy, it was to hump her. (He is neutered.) At one point, he was grabbing her by the hips and back legs and humping her with his penis out. The puppy did not protest, but I don't know that I would expect her to. It just seemed inappropriate given the age and the very soft energy of the puppy. The owners of the 10 year old weren't really correcting him so I did (just a gentle "eh eh" and a redirect into a sit with treats and play for reward). That worked well, but really...humping a 10 week old puppy???

I have no idea what to make of that. Your thoughts and experience?

 

[ruthcatrin]

Its likely how he reacts when excited, whether excited in a good way or excited in a frustrated way, and has never been corrected for it. So its how he 'handles' it. Which doesn,t make me think much of his owners frankly.

 

[CeeCee]

Yeah, I have to agree. They were nice people, but very clueless. I was hoping to model a corrective behavior for them.

On a side note, I looked at that adorable little puppy with her wide innocent eyes and I have to say, I was terrified! Not of her, but at the thought of being responsible for that little blank slate. God love all you people who raise the tiny little puppies! :scared2:

 

[2nd Chance]

here, my dogs match a pups energy.
its rare a dog judges things wrongly. If this were my 10yr old dog, id trust its judgement. But i have knowledge that he's never hurt a pup in plenty of opportunities to do so here.
If like this, its a first exposure to the pup, and he's excited, that explains his exuberance, but does not permit it in my book. So id would handle it.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Yah, Apollo's great with pups, though I have to occasionally remind him "gentle" with the more enthusiastic ones and I'm not sure I,d trust him with a toy breed pup just for fear he'd squash it. But when he went through his humping phase we VERY VERY firmly corrected and redirected him.

 

[amandakay2]

I had an older toy breed dog that would hump because he was a dominant male dog he humped the cats another male dog I corrected every time and he eventually got bored with it

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