Rua is not acting lady like!

[Dori & Rua]

I tried to search for info on this issue, but the search features seems to work for names, not discussions.  I don't exactly know how to say this other than to spit it out.  Rua has started humping!  Big time.  With extreme enthusiasm.  It started about 3 or 4 days ago.  I let her have her Petsmart Puppy to play with since she has yet to distroy or "destuff" a toy.  She started dragging it all over and then before I knew it, she started humping the stuffed puppy.  RUA IS A SHE!!!!  It was one of the reasons I got a girl dog.  I didn't want humping, marking, leg lifting, lipstick!

 

She is just 5 months old, has been spayed, I am not sure how to handle this.  Did I mention she does this with extreme enthusiasm.  She literally ends up with the top of her head on the ground (almost like she is going to do a summersault) and goes to town.  I have been tempted to take a video, but I don't think it would be appropriate to post it.  I do have to admit that it causes me to laugh out loud...it is so funny it is hard to be mad, but I would like to put an end to it.

 

Is this just temporary?  Should I interrupt and redirect?  Should I not let her have her Puppy?  Should I get her a room? 

 

Help!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPDATE::::::

Please..do not spread this around the internet...I don't want my little girl to be thought of poorly.  Remember all that you have read...it is just about dominance...this is the only thing she is bigger than.

 

Check this out!!!! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM3OMLJgkRg

 

 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Little Rua just wants to be boss of something!!!

[Camilla and Darwin]

No advice for you, but it's HILARIOUS that cutie pie Princess Rua started doing this!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Rua is sure showing the Petsmart Puppy who'd boss. I guess if I wanted to stop it I would take the puppy away, redirect or even scold when she did it with other objects.  Murphy tried humping when he was younger but it was with Marley and I know he was trying to be dominant but that didn't go over too well with Marley, so they worked it out.

Bella is 5 months old too and also spayed and has only humped Murphy once and it was over before I could even get to her to make her stop. I know it's a dog thing, and a dominant thing, but most people don't like it being done to their dogs, so I don't want to allow mine to do it to anything or anyone and will stop them if I see them do it. It's just not polite I guess. But I have to admit, thinking of little sweet Rua trying to dominate the big bad Petsmart Puppy is quite a hoot !

[F, Calla & Luca]

I'm LOL at all the Humpty Dumptying comments.

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

I am laughing so hard - dear sweet Rua you are shocking your momma - now stop it - lol.  I have never had a dog (we always have had males) do this so I will pay attention to the comments of others just incase Rooney decides to take it up.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

OMD, how funny is this!  This sweet little girl has discovered how to "Humpty Dumpty".  This is "shocking news".  I would expect that from anybody....but not RUA.  She has been raised better than that.  And she's only a baby...think of what she's going to be doing when she reaches those teenage years.  I'm wondering if that "hot pink dress" is what started her down this path.  Maybe you just need to tell her that it's okay to Humpty Dumpty in the privacy of her own room, but definitely not in public.

[BG and Gavin]

Oh Rua!! This is a shocking development indeed!

Don't worry.  Just take the Petsmart dog away when she does it.  I would doubt that it is even a dominance issue.  Gavin humped his bed once in a while when he was a pup.  The vet said when they are young, it is just play behaviour.  They kinda stumble onto it and it seems like fun, so off they go!  When Gavin did it, we would remove the bed for a few minutes and then return it, repeating if necessary.  He got the message pretty quickly and has never tried to hump anything else.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

We had a lab named Hershey and I often thought I should have sent a video to "Funniest Home Videos". Whenever my daughters would dance to the song "Macarena", Hershey could be seen in the background humping a bed pillow. She seemed to have a crush on one of my daughter's bed pillows. Personally, I think she is just learning about life and I wouldn't worry about it.

[Jersey, Jasmine, Jypsy and Diane]

I have been using "doing the Humpty Dumpty" for years, guess it works for a lot of people. lol. My girls don't do it , by my daughter's female, spayed lab will come and try to do it to them. Jasmine lets her and Jersey will growl and nip her. My other daughter's fixed male golden does it to their male Bernese Mountain dog all the time. Annoying, but at least they don't do it to the humans in the family.

[Julie, Izzie & Max]

Our female labradoodle does this to our male.  The male has never done it.  I know it is a dominance thing as she likes to be the boss.  I usually just tell her no and make her get off him.  I think he knows now that she is not suppose to do that to him and he growls at her to get her to stop and moves away.  We had a cat that had a thing for a floral comforter and after we later changed the comforter he stops this.  I guess he had a thing for flowers. 

 

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

Go ahead and let her "humpty dumpty" the puppy.  Female dogs will also occasionally or often leg lift and mark.  Don't kno about the lipstick though.  Lots of females are smart about another dog doing the humpty dumpty with them though.  They just sit down.  It make me laugh every time.

[Lindsey, Lee, Whopper and Simba]

Our doods take turns...one male, one female...I guess they are all about equal opportunity.  The other typically just stands there while the one goes to town.  It seems to occur in waves and they only do it to each other in terms of living things.  Simba is the more frequent initiator so he is often refered to as Sir Humpalot.