Humpy Bunny

All dogs at some point in there life hump something or someone or some dog.  It's normal and a sign of arousal, but lets face it as behaviours go it is embarrassing and therefore a behaviour you would like your dog to never do again.

Like any behaviour you have to figure out what you have and what you want.  Keeping in mind you can't teach a dog what not to do but what to do.

Sit usually is a  nice opposite behaviour to humping people.  Build value for sitting in front of people, for sitting when you approach people and for sitting when people approach you.

Humping while playing with other dogs is a little harder to work with but still completely fixable.  You need some skills first.

1. Can you collar grab your dog. When you approach your dog does he move towards you or away.  Once you have the collar is he totally happy to sit there or does he snap and struggle.
2. Can you collar grab your dog if he is playing in a field on his own.
3. Can you collar grab your dog if he is playing in a field with one other dog.
4. Can you collar grab your dog if he is playing in a field with multiple dogs.

How does your dog play with the other dog, does he constantly try to hump or do they just run around and wrestle.  If he constantly tries to hump you other need a different dog that he doesn't do this with or try you walking and not just standing still, dogs are a lot less likely to hump while moving.  Once you have achieved your dog playing with other dogs and not humping your dog is creating value for the appropriate way to play.  

Now whenever your dog goes to hump your job is to quickly go in and interrupt.  Take his collar walk him a few feet away, let him settle down a few seconds and then release to go play.  If he immediately goes back to humping take him out of the situation completely and reassess.

How much practice has your dog had for playing without humping.  You can try less dogs, different dogs, walking.  Some dogs get much too high playing with other dogs and need regular interruptions to get them back to an operant state.  Let the dog play for a few minutes and do a collar grab remove him from the play and ask for some skills e.g. sit, down, spin and then release to go play.

Any skill is all about practice.  The more he humps the more he will learn that is how you interact with other dogs, the more he plays and doesn't hump the more he learns that is how he plays with other dogs.