I understand what you guys are saying, but if that were the reason. Why would my dog hump his pillow when no one is around at all. I guess he's just a horn dog.

 

Were you asking for advice on how to resolve the problem or just sharing your story of the pillow humping dog? The title suggested you were interested in understanding how to "fix" the problem, maybe I'm mistaken.

 

As I was saying, I understand what some of you are saying. Well, my main question was whether or not neutering my dog would fix the humping. I'll definitely try some of the things mentioned above. I always acted around my dog, so he knows I'm the alpha male. He does not mess with me or hump me ever. If he's humping his pillow, and I take it from him, he does not resist and will lose interest shortly.

He's just really horny all the times, you can see it in his eyes. Is that not possible?

Also as someone mentioned above, humping is learned over time and becomes a habit. Now that he's over 5 years old, it will be harder to break. Since he's already learned to be sexual. Whether fixing the dong so late in his life would help the sexual behavior is debatable. That's I was curious to hear the fellow members opinions.

 

imo, many pet owners are messed up in the head. they get an animal that doesn't understand the human rules of "decency" and expect it to act like a well behaved private school student.

IT'S A DOG, let him be a dog and stop trying to "fix" him. if you dont like what dogs do, give him to someone who can appreciate the animal he is. imagine if a race of aliens came and picked u, the human, up as a pet and u couldn't understand their language, but they wanted you to act a certain way determined by them. That's called "PRISONER."

good luck

 

You are "messed up in the head" if you think a dog, any dog, understands even a little bit about human social behavior and concepts like "decency" or can ever hope to do things your way. It's a dog. It doesn't have the equipment to learn a social structure other than its own.

 

pretty strong conclusions from such little information. I thank you for trying to be helpful. A dog maybe be an animal, but it's still a biological being. It has hormones and sexual desires, do they not? I have absolutely no argument about the "alpha male concept" that many of you mentioned above.

My dog has to understand nothing about human social behavior and "decency". I am not trying to get my dog to understand anything. I was just trying to get some feedback on possible changes in his sexual behavior by neutering him. My dog is always going to taste shit and smell other dogs assholes. I wouldn't expect that to change ever. It's certainly plausible that lack of nuts might reduce his sexual tendencies.

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He's been neutered, I'll know in a few weeks if it had any impact on the situation. Thanks for all your help!

 

I know that I have 2 intact male dogs, one almost 8 and another almost 2 and neither feel the need to get off on a pillow or anything else. Dogs have sex to reproduce not as a hobby like we do. They hump for entirely different reasons.

I think it's a good idea to neuter dogs you don't intend to breed for a lot of reasons and I congratulate you on the choice, it's a good one. I don't think it solves your problem but time will tell.

Let us know how it works out.

 

The other dog is like, "What the hell?!!!"

 

UPDATE***************


I guess it's been a few weeks since my coker spaniel has been neutered. I gotta say, it's made a world of a difference.

He no longer humps his pillow.

He does not howl and cry at all. He used to do it everyday.

His energy levels are lower, so less excitement. He is still very playful and energetic, but just not overwhelmingly.

I wish I had fixed him years ago, perhaps he could've been an indoor pet.

This is the honest truth, I'm not trying to win any arguments. I'm 100% satisfied with the operation.

Thanks everyone for all your input!

 

Good news! Glad it all worked out

Thanks for the follow up