My 11 week old Female is humping her stuffed animal

[Karla Hintz]

Hi,
My 11 week female puppy is humping her large stuffed animal, have read this her showing her dominance ... But we should redirect this behavior! She will growl at us sometimes when we pick her up, but we always try to nip that and show her we won't allow that. Any suggestions?

[Julie and Charlie]

Dogs do this, I just let Charlie go to it on inanimate objects. He stops pretty quickly, and even if he didn't, I wouldn't really care.

On people, I will tell him to get off. People just don't understand :)

[Adina P]

Rosco is our humper...but only of whatever black female doodle we have at the time.  Many years ago when we had Thule (who never humper other dogs) I bought a BIG fluffy stuffed "bone" toy with squeakers in it.  The only thing Thule wanted to do was hump it.  She didn't try it with other toys or with dogs...just that huge bone.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

All new meaning to the word, Bone r