Totally agree, no need for yours to go on the lead....why should you when otherwise he's behaving himself.

Some owners are lazy and just let their dogs do whatever the hell they like Classic = me with Fred on a long extendable (therefore preventing bolts and any greeting jumps) and some see me and still just let their dogs come over anyway as they then see me trying to control two, with (more often than not) a lead in the middle and trying to calm the situation and get his attention to me and not their dog That makes me cross. Good job Fred's just playful or it could get ugly!!!

Drives me mad though that Sometimes if really cheesed off I'll let him off and with a fair enough; stand by attitude.....cos I won't feel guilty if he jumps or whatever then.

My last dog a RR, of lead used to always lay down when another dog approached,then act accordingly once they met.
Which sometimes when he Was younger used to end up in the same behaviour
He grew out of it by about 2yrs old.
He carried on with the laying thing till the End of his days,which I quite liked.
It was always with calm dogs smaller, or simular energy types,
The aggressive, dominant,high energy types were usually spotted and I would call him back for a treat then keep him to heel.
I think the labs nature to come and say hi usually in a very enthusiastic way is why yours does it ,trying to control the other dog.
Not in an aggressive dominant way.
Guess what ...we've got a RR and a chocy lab this time
Both still pups but the lab does get exited to meet other dogs & RR likes to mount him when he shows That type of behaviour!
The RR needs some work though he gets very exited at the site of anything with 4 legs and a fur coat at the moment!lol
Hope you work it out

I reckon I have narrowed it down to an anxiety response. We saw the two choc labs that Kilo can be particularly 'bad' with yesterday evening as we walked past the fields. They ran over to the fence to us and were trying to get through the gate. Kilo sniffed at them quickly then just sat ignoring them whilst I chatted to their owner for a few minutes - they were at the fence trying to greet the whole time. The owner was all for letting him off to play but I said I didn't want to and explained why, which she was fine with, and also told her what I believed was causing the humping.

If Kilo really wants to play with a dog and we are very close to them he will sit but often whines and yips as he is so desperate to greet them (I don't allow him to until he is quiet!)....none of that yesterday which makes me think that he is not that comfortable with them.

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My staffie x would always try to hump chocolate labs (girls mainly). It was sort of a phase in his moving on from DA, seemed to be caused by a bit of stress/ over excitement and as the ones we met were always very soft, kissy and submissive, perhaps he then felt he was able to 'get one over on them' if thats the right word - he would do it as not quite sure what else to do almost, but would choose a dog that he wouldn't be told off for doing it.

lol he likes the dark haired chunky ladies what's wrong with that, its better than my jerrylee who has tried to hump the cat yes the cat

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Sounds about right.
didnt feel anxious,as they couldn't rush him in their keen way.
And he was being a good boy waiting politely for you
Wonder how they would respond to each other after the labs had calmed
Down(eventually) lol,Had a good sniff through the fence then met.

Dogs who'd have em

I wanted to try it with less hyper labs first and one at a time; those two are really bonkers!!!

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I realised the other day that a few dogs have tried to hump Flint,they don't bother with Craven,probably too tall.

But poor Flint does tend to get harassed.

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One used to try Kilo and was successful; then he grew and they could no longer reach, so probably!!

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Well, no progress, but definitely narrowed it down to stress / excitement. I have been doing a good job of avoiding the behaviour, by recalling Kilo as soon as I spy any boisterous - looking labs and moving elsewhere. We had had no more humping since I started this thread until this evening.

We have no problems walking / playing with a black lab that we meet fairly often as he isn't manic, and walked for a little way with a lady and her chocolate girl offlead today with no problems at all as she ignored Kilo totally after a quick sniff, so they didn't interact at all. We also meet several yellow labs that we have never had a problem with.

This afternoon, we had just got to the offlead dog walking field and there was a choc lab and springer (Kilo plays with the springer a fair amount) in the other field that I hadn't noticed until the lab started to run over. Kilo lay down, the lab ran up....and he went to hump - I knew that he would, so got him as he went to try and put his lead on. I apologised to the woman and explained why I thought it was and she was very nice, but did say that she thought it was probably due to him being a dominant dog. I didn't get into a debate, but just left.

It was a real shame as the springer that he plays well with was there, plus the collie, lab (that he doesn't try to hump!!) and boxer that we also get together with were also coming onto the fields, but I didn't want him to get a chance to rehearse his humping with the choc lab who was still interested in him too!

I am not sure that I can do any more to stop this behaviour than I am doing and am just hoping that lack of practice will extinguish it. As the evenings are getting lighter and the weather a little better, the dog fields are getting much busier and labs are very common place here so I do wish I could 'fix' it!

ETA: I lied - Kilo tried to hump a GR just after I had posted this original thread that ran up to him (he was lying down again!) head - on barking excitedly. So the same sort of trigger again.

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