Hi there- asking for any info as someone asked me if i had experience of this with my male dog, which i haven't -so opening it up to all of you.

I said I would get back to them. I have a male and have had 3 females including his mum and thankfully never had any over sexual problems, even though he is entire and has been used for stud, which probably helps in that he knows when a girl is ready and no point doing anything else if they aren't!

However, the lady concerned tells me ' that the lab was neutured too early and now tries to mate anything and everything when ever he can.' I haven't seen him yet- but the nearest thing i have to it is that my alpha female who i bought as an adult used to reverse and thrust into new people when she first met and also would mount our male dog with similar actions and i saw it as her reinforcing herself as top girl etc she also marks territory.  this now very rarely happens, i think due to some subtle changes in how we got others and ourselves to interact with her and her realising i am top girl not her and so she hasn't got to demonstrate anything and now she is really very relaxed and calm and loving with visitors whereas she used to bark like crazy.

however back to my question, could this be the same with a male dog or not? has anyone had an experience like this and the problem been sorted and is it anything to do with neuturing too early as the woman believes?'  ( I wouldn't have thought if a vet is doing it, that it would be too early as a vet would know when the right time is etc but am i wrong?)

I am contacting later in the week so wanted advice before the. thanks.

I don't have anything to say about the dogs behaviour, I'm afraid, as my dog is entire so don't know the problem, but vets will neuter at any age. They don't necessarily have the dogs behaviour at heart. Many people are pushed into having their dogs (and cats) neutered far too early, causing serious problems for the owners in the future. How old was he when he was neutered? That might be a major cause to the problem. The best way to stop him from humping is to distract him just as he starts. Hopefully someone will come on here with better info and help. There'e bound to be someone who has had the same problem ;)

With the greatest respect to vets, it's not unusual for them to encourage what I consider unecessarily early neuterings. In my case, I was invited to book Nips in for neutering at 6 months which would have been long before he was mature enough IMHO. As it happens, he's remained entire (and will remain entire!) and I'm very happy I resisted the pressure.

Certainly, the one entire dog I know who was an absolute pest, so far as humping was concerned, was neutered at 9 months old and his owner told this would almost certainly correct his behaviour. It didn't, if anything he got worse, and the only real improvement came when he was distracted from humping and taught that this behaviour wasn't appropriate.

Neutering will not stop humping, bitches do it to other bitches and dogs just as much as dogs do it.  It is down to the owner to exercise control over the dog and yes distraction techniques work very well as does removing him from a situation where he will be tempted to hump.  It is irrelevant now that the dog has been done whether it was done too early or not, the cure remains the same - owner control.

There is a lot of information coming to light about pets being neutered early having problems later with bones that have continued to grow because the necessary adult biological controls had not kicked in at maturity.  I believe these findings are probably consistent with the fact that vets have decided to neuter earlier and earlier over recent years and we are now seeing the results.

I am sure there are others on the board who can shed more light on this.