Bog is a two and half year old castrated large Lab.

We have had him for over a year ( rescue lad) and has never shown any urges to hump either girls and is a non aggressive friendly boy with both sexes entire or not when out on walks.

He is our first boy and one of my reservations was boy behaviour as really don't like 'lipsticks' or if they start to hump things.

It was a couple of months ago and he was allowed to sit with me on the back seat on a short journey and was showing signs of being very excited with his lipstick which was out and proud

Thankfully it as a short journey so looked out at the scenery to avoid looking at him ! Lol

But recently he has started to show great interest in his favourite toy which is a large stuffed toy called gorilla who he normally loves to play with by killing or just generally running around with him !

However the last couple of weeks he just seems totally focused on humping him to death :-O

We are taking gorilla away when he starts but any idea why he has started doing this and what we can do to stop him apart from
Distraction as we don't want him to start doing this of we have visitors or my 10
Year old has her friends round !

As far as I know we haven't got any in season bitches near by and we haven't seem any when put on walks.

Thanks
Lucy

Tara has the same toy as you know :) She has had hers for over 10 years and is still in love with it - carries it out into the garden for a grooming/sucking session :) She humps hers when we put her in the car with the toy (if we're going away somewhere and toy has to come too) - seems to be pure excitement with her :) :)

Must be something to do with apes ! Lol

My four month old puppy joyfully humps her bed!

Luckily it's never been a problem here, my little dog has never been a humper !. However just recently his little lipstick will pop out for no apparent reason, just when he's sitting still. He doesn't notice and never pays any attention to it !. I asked the vet, she says it's probably his age and that the skin has loosened. I did comment that I hope it doesn't happen to human men when they get old !!.

My first dog had a poor ,much abused pink teddy for this very purpose, it was called Shaggy lol,I was just glad he confined his ardour to the toy and not anyones leg.It's a behaviour I've always just accepted that boys do sometimes, mine have always grown out of it without any intervention.

Same as Celli.  I don't make a big deal of it.  I agree that it's much better for them to have something to hump that is their own.  But then I've never had a problem with lipsticks.  I am certainly not embarrassed by it.  I do think it's excitement more than anything else.  Ten year olds will learn of far worse in this day and age.  If they giggle about it, I think that's fairly natural.

You would have had lots of fun watching my very first Toy Poodle bitch back in the 70's.  I had purchased my first house, a draughty old Victorian thing, with no central heating.  I had bought a draft excluder for the living room door.  It was a long knitted snake.  I don't even remember how he got named, but he was Horace.  Cindy loved him to bits.  She would mess about for ages, until she had folded him double.  Then she sat astride him until he was touching her foo foo.  She would hump for England.  But once she got up to full speed, Horace would collapse in a heap.  Cindy was not best pleased with Horace when this happened.

So she took him by the throat and shook him like she meant it!  :-)

Lol, thats so funny, poor Horace .

Yikes, I'd bin gorilla, but then I guess the worry is he starts on something else? I've never (thankfully) had a dog that humped but my friends 4 year old lab does the same, they had him neutered to stop it but it hasn't worked. He is much worse than BogDog though, he humps cushions, legs, anything that stands still long enough really. I'll watch this thread for tips for them :)

Daisy has Humpy-cushion; one particular cushion on the sofa that gets a good bothering every day after supper. The session is less than a minute then she settles down using HC as a pillow. She never humps anything else. :-)

If he's suddenly started doing it then I'd be getting him checked over just to be safe :)  Could be something like a yeast infection making him a bit peculiar, or possibly stress from something - stress-humping is not uncommon.  Has anything changed recently?

He is a bit peculiar in many ways so I don't have concern that it is medical!

He has no signs of discharge or peeing a lot more just this particular activity !

No changes to routine, food or behaviour to note