A friend brings over her Mixed Breed spayed female on visits on weekends. My male GSD is intact and 22 months old. He is a very dominant male but has become a real sap when it comes to the visiting female. The female is about a year older then he is and half his size. They play like 2 puppies but I have seen very odd behavior last weekend. The female is acting like a male and trying to hunch my male. every chance she gets she tries to hunch him. He tolerates her but every so often he has enough and chases her away.
I thought perhaps it might be some attempt at domination by her, yet I have seen my male put her in "a alpha roll" which she does without resistance. Just to be sure I checked her to make sure she was indeed a female. my male will also try to hunch her but she lays down each time or rolls over on her back <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
any explanation?
Dogs can "trade" dominant behaviors in play. Every so often, you might see the dominant one get serious just to check and make sure the subordinate remembers the pecking order, then go right back to playing.
so a female hunching a male is an act of dominance?
this female is an only dog and has very little if any interaction with any other dog and this is the 1st opportunity for her to interact with another dog since her puppyhood
Look at it this way, dominance or not he is still a male dog, ask yourself this when we wrestle with females do we care who on top or who is winning? No we just want contact, we may even give her the impression that it hurts so she will really put it on us. But like most women, when he get serious she backs off.
I wouldn't worry about this, dogs will be dogs. Your big boy is just humoring her and trying to work in a submission hold. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
I just thought it was such an odd behavior for a female to be hunch a male that is usually dog agressive and very dominant. with her he acts like a big teddy bear.
even the owner thought it odd and asked that I check to make sure that she did not have a male instead of a female considering she adopted the female at 6 months of age from the humane society (already spayed). Which all goes to show I still have lots to learn about dog behavior
This is extremely common, male dogs like male men will do anythig!!!! for a pretty female. Also I have 2 german shepherds 100% working lines and my female is a real handful she is handler hard very civil and if around other dogs if she cant be be top dog she will fight to the death!! dont worry very very common didnt you do strange things for the opposite sex?
thats funny to read this post now, we used to have a hound dog that when it came time to breed her or she was in heat she would lets say take over the male role as if saying this is how you do it this is what I want done, kinda like a woman gives us hints. The reason I say its funny to post now is my wife is a vet tech and my son is study a vet course that teaches about reproduction of the canine and like humans even though the female is spayed she still gets the urge but doesnt give the other indicators to the male that she wants to be bred. This may or may not be your case but is definately not a problem as long as the male is alright with it, you know some need to remind everyone they are " THE MAN" haha
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