I don't think its necessarily at dominance thing either. I think its mostly play and attention getting. Dogs don't dominate as much as we give them credit for.
Bill
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring-it was peace. - Milan Kundera
The funniest thing that I have seen, happened about 20 years ago, when I was on a dog grooming course. One little dog a poodle, was being held on a lead and waiting to be clipped, when he started humping his lead. Now if he hadn't gone 'all the way' I would have said that it was anxiety that caused the behaviour, but he really did seem to be getting into the swing of things, and ended up by finishing it all off as well. He wasn't interested in the person holding the lead, just the lead.
I guess that was one way to take his mind off being clipped! I guess we will never understand exactly why they do some things.
After not doing it in ages, one of my dogs just started to do it again, but I told her 'no' and she stopped again. I do think it is just a part of the play. There really isn't too much of a dominance thing. Even when I try to adhere to the alpha dog thing, it usually doesn't mean much in this case.
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