Hi

I mated my girl and unfortunately had nothing but slips ... so quick we was not hopeful .
We monitored her and kept track of days and are treating as if in whelp all though we presume not . Now days 45 / 49 and she has started humping my male . I've never experienced this behaviour before . Humping others only when due in season .
Anyone any insight on this ?

She has shown clingy , protective with food/more hungry behaviours but absolutely no physical signs of pregnancy and we believe she has not taken . Previously mated and went on to produce two healthy pups  .

Curious about the humping today ? :/

Can't help you re the humping at this point other then perhaps this is hormones.   But I can tell you that provided the time is right, the bitch is receptive and the male fertile, slip matings can work.   One of our boys never managed a tie but only missed to one of the bitches I let him mate with.   That wasn't that many but would suggest his not being able to die wasn't a problem much as breeders do prefer to see a tie.  And the one he missed to came back on her next season to my other male - they died.   She missed again.   Going to another outside stud the next time - she 'missed again'! (with apologies to Phil Collins!)   So that miss was clearly not my male's fault.

I understand slip matings can do go on to produce pups . We have had pups from the outcome of a slip previously .

However she has shown zero physical signs of pregnancy,  she is a small breed and would be easy to see signs .

Hormones causing the humping I would understand if she had of taken , is it possible for her to have another season so soon maybe ?  :/

Can you not get her scanned to see if she has? Nothing to say she will carry to term but you will know what's going on and a good scanner should detect if anything is amiss too

I could get her scanned but I don't see the point in bothering her . Of course if I believed she was poorly I would take her straight away however she is well in herself just this humping business has thrown me completely !

Has anyone else had a similar experience ? :/

My girl humped around this stage. She did not have any outward signs of pregnancy, but as I was about to book a holiday I got her scanned just for my own piece of mind. She was carrying a singleton....

That's interesting Darwinawards.
At what stage did your girl start showing signs with her singleton and did she go on to whelp pup herself ?

As lovely as it would be to have a pup I'd rather she was not in whelp with only one .

Did the humping persist throughout the remaining pregnancy?

> As lovely as it would be to have a pup I'd rather she was not in whelp with only one . <br />

Sods Law, as can happen with singletons, they tend to 'sit' and often it ends up with a C.Section because sitting means they get big and make a natural whelping less likely.   Frustrating.

That would be my worry mamabas 

I had a litter of 10 born from only slip matings. Can't comment about the humping.

>That wasn't that many but would suggest his not being able to die wasn't a problem much as breeders do prefer to see a tie.  And the one he missed to came back on her next season to my other male - they died.

Oh dear.... 

> That wasn't that many but would suggest his not being able to die wasn't a problem much as breeders do prefer to see a tie.  And the one he missed to came back on her next season to my other male - they died.

I just looked back on my comment ------ ooops.      For 'die' read tie, and for 'died', read TIED!!   So sorry.   Sometimes my brain, or what's left of it, doesn't connect with my fingers. 

>Sometimes my brain, or what's left of it, doesn't connect with my fingers. 

You're not alone!  I know just what you mean! 
I thought it was funny! 

> Sometimes my brain, or what's left of it, doesn't connect with my fingers.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one.  What a relief.  

One of my girls used to hump when she had a phantom pregnancy