My dog, Dakota was fixed just after we got him last September.
Last night, I caught him humping a pillow. Aren’t fixed dogs supposed to be not humping things??
Our fixed epileptic cat (male) humps the sheets and blanket on our bed if we leave any “bumps” that he can get to.
Our fixed female pekenese will latch onto your arm and go to town if you get her too riled up while playing.
An ex of mine had a fixed male lab cross who gave himself blowjobs on a daily basis.
A friend’s fixed male pooch (some lap breed I can’t remember) carries his blanket all over the house. Whenever it is not in his mouth being drug somewhere, it is being violated.
The term “proud cut” refers to male horses who are supposed to be geldings, but who continue to behave and impregnate as stallions, even after their surgery.
Sex is a powerful motivation, it would seem.
Our neighbors have a female border collie who does the same thing.
My dog was fixed last year, but he’ll still try to bonk my Davey Crockett hat if I dangle it in front of him.
Needless to say, I don’t actually wear this hat; it officially became the dog’s property the very first time I caught him using it as his lust toy. For some reason, I just didn’t want it any more!
I used to have partial custody (long story) of a fixed Pomeranian that would get jiggy with stuffed animal once in a while.
I started a thread pretty much like this one asking why; the conclusion I believe was that it’s a dominance thing as well as a sexual thing.
Funny post someone made: I asked “Why does he hump the stuffed animal?” and someone said “'Cause your leg’s ugly!”
Actually, the humping behavior has nothing to do with sexual urges and everything to do with the desire to dominate. Female dogs will hump each other, neutered dogs will hump each other, inanimate objects will be humped…it’s all a way to say, “I’m the boss of you.”
I have to be somewhat skeptical that the desire to dominate is the only impulse at work in all “altered” humping. I don’t necessarily think it is all sexual instinct either, though my post may have suggested otherwise.
The lab who gives himself bj’s? There’s no domination being enforced there.
My epileptic cat does have his “dominant days” with the other cats…chasing them around and such…but I’m 99.9% sure that his blanket and sheet humping occurs simply because it feels good. He is far from a normally behaving cat, but these episodes usually begin with “making muffins”, kneading his front paws, purring and drooling, as if he were a kitten again. Then the back feet and hips start to move, which (when I’m around) is the point at which I remove him from the room untill I can make the bed.
I think there are probably many triggers to the humping urge, and it is more like an overflow for a variety of critter emotions/energies.
On a somewhat related (and hella funny) tangent…perhaps NoGoodNames and I should submit some pet pictures to http://www.ihumpthings.com
Maybe he’s got a bit of Mississippi Leg Hound in his blood.