strangest behaviour I've seen in a girl...help

[cloverfdx]

Could be a dominance thing.. or over excitement. Have you been working on pack leadership with her?

[ashleycat]

shes really calm, timid, quiet and the foster parent said she was not dominant at all.

Why do I make non dominant animals go dominant on me? :*(

Am I just that big of a sweet bonehead?
Did I just make her too happy?

[lv4dogs]

Raustyk does that sometimes too. Even though Raustyk is a dominant type she does this to me when she gets overly excited. For her, it ONLY happens when she starts licking me excessivly (she loves to "groom" me). I can tell for sure by her body language that she is NOT trying to dominate me, especially so because she is often laying down when she does this so really it's like she's humping the couch or floor and not me. lol

Can you explain more in detail excatly when this happens? Does something seem to trigger the behavior?

[gemini9961]

Sadie does it. I was holding her one time and she started to do it. She will do it to my husband's leg. I caught her one night doing it to Grant and biting on his neck at the same time, guess she was showing him who's boss.

[RobiLee]

All of the female dogs (except one, Katie) that we have had and that includes my family dogs as I grew up have done this. It's normal. I think it mostly comes from excitement and sometimes dominance.

[sanford8916]

Lou Lou does it to Winchester. She does it when she is excited and playing with him. Winchester will always growl at her when she does it though, he doesn't like it one bit! Lou Lou does try to be dominate something though, so she could be trying to out rank the poor boy and he is just reminding her that she is a puppy!

[luvofallhorses]

my girls have never done that. Is she spayed ?

[Jadapit]

Diamond does it to Ebony a lot. (Diamond has some ACD in her) Diamond is lucky Ebony will put up with it. She knows better than to try it with Jada. She only does it when her and Ebony are playing. I dont get it myself because Diamond is on the bottom of the pack here. I tell Diamond to quit and she stops.

*edit to add*

I went to google and found this article. It might help you. There were a lot of different articles on the subject.

http://www.petplace.com/dogs/humping/page1.aspx

[ashleycat]

Raustyk does that sometimes too. Even though Raustyk is a dominant type she does this to me when she gets overly excited. For her, it ONLY happens when she starts licking me excessivly (she loves to "groom" me). I can tell for sure by her body language that she is NOT trying to dominate me, especially so because she is often laying down when she does this so really it's like she's humping the couch or floor and not me. lol

Can you explain more in detail excatly when this happens? Does something seem to trigger the behavior?

I was just playing with her. The same way a small dog or puppy would. I was on my hands and knees "jumping" around lol. For about 10 min, even when I was done playing. She would come up to me and do it.

[ashleycat]

Yes she's spayed. So I should take it as a compliment that I made her really happy??

OO good, cus that means she's starting to come out of her shell!

[luvofallhorses]

good thing that she's spayed. I have never had my girl dogs or other girl dogs do that to me..it's always the boy dogs..
..although it could be a dominance issue. when she does that to you just say "off" in a firm tone of voice and see if that helps. when she gets off give her a reward like a treat or just praise her for getting off.

[bckrazy]

Yes, humping definitely denotes dominance. When you're down at her level playing with her, she might be seeing that as an opportunity to dominate you with the humping.

To curb this behavior, I would definitely start NILIF, and give her a stern "No" when she humps and end the game.