Spayed female suddenly humping my other spayed female?

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Aren_Autumn

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Aren was spayed at 4 months of age, and she is currently 1 year and 3 months old. So she's been barren for nearly a year. Now, Autumn was spayed at 5 months, and she is almost 1 year old this month.

So, two females that have been spayed for near a year. I have noticed in the past several weeks that Aren has suddenly begun humping Autumn, usually when they are both on my bed. Sometimes it is when I am playing with Autumn and I have raised her in the air (back feet still on bed) and Aren's lower extremities suddenly start...humping... and it's like she can't control it or doesn't know what to do.

She never used to do this. Is this a dominance thing? It's just strange because if I hold Autumn up, Aren's back end literally starts....thrusting... by itself.

I'm quite perplexed, especially as they have no reproductive anything, they are both female, and this only JUST started happening.
 
This would definately be a dominance thing. Aren is probably unsure where she is in the pack order/is trying to move up in the pack order. Females go back and forth on this sort of thing, than a male/female dog household will settle things much more quickly.

When you are raising Autumn up you are putting her in a dominant position, you are putting her head up high, and raising her up. This probably revokes a dominant reaction from Aren.
 
I know that Aren and I struggle for who's the pack leader; but most of the time she's quite submissive to me. She's definitely submissive to my boyfriend! LOL.
 
Mounting is just a sign of exuberance - it is not sexual so has nothing to do with being desexed. More often it is just a play behaviour - the dogs are wrestling. It is more common in male dogs but can occur in females as well and it usually occurs between dogs of the same gender. My male and female both hump each other when they are wrestling or over excited. They can learn the behaviour as they get older - they may have seen it once or tried it once and found it nice. I know my dogs now and in the past have developed the behaviour around a similar age.

If you dont want your dogs doing it you just need to teach them it isn't appropriate and to find another way to express their playing. But I would stop it as soon as it starts otherwise it becomes a habit. I tend to only stop mine if it gets out of hand (I had originally been always stopping it always but was told by the vet to just let them be unless they do it too much). And I never let them do it to another dog outside the pack.
 
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If it only happened when they were wrestling on the floor I'd say it was excitement, but since it's mostly happening in a higher up place and a place of importance (to a dog it would probably be like a throne) like the bed, I'd say its definitely a dominance issue.

Kick the offender or both of them off the bed when that happens so that they learn it is not acceptable behavior.

This is a great article on ways to gently assert dominance over your dog

http://www.bigpawdesigns.com/gewatoasdowi.html

My parent's male does the same type of humping, only when he's exciting and mostly around new people. I think with him it's a mix of dominance and excitement. He's the same though, all of a sudden it's as if his back end is working of it's on accord and he's not sure why it's moving that way. Often, he'll just be standing in the middle of the room wildly humping air. :lol:
 
Yes I agree it sounds like a dominace Issue...One of my girls (both are not spayed) will hump anything including the cat:lol: trying to gain control over someone since she is at the bottom of the order.
 
Layla does it to Bits to show off for me. DH and DS say she only does it when I'm there. :rolleyes2:
 
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